

Burn What Will Burn
Author: CB McKenzie
Narrator: Bon Shaw
Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/21/2016
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Crime, Suspense & Thriller
Author: CB McKenzie
Narrator: Bon Shaw
Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/21/2016
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Crime, Suspense & Thriller
CB McKenzie, a Texas native, has been a lifeguard, haute couture model, carpenter, housepainter, waiter, farmhand, teacher, and factory worker in a wide variety of locales around the world, including Hamburg, Miami, Milan, Tokyo, and Tucson. He earned both an MFA and a PhD from the University of Arizona and was a full-time faculty member at Pima Community College. Though he currently teaches at City University of New York, he still keeps his pickups in Tucson and Texas.
Bon Shaw is an avid reader with a passion for linguistics. His resonant narrative and aptitude for accents and dialects invokes a listening experience rich with visceral fervor. When not behind the mic, he enjoys spending time with his friends and family.
Bob Reynolds lives out in the middle of nowhere with no phone service so when he comes across a body in the creek he drags it out of the water thinking of the trouble it's going to be to get a hold of the police. Bob's kept his head down in the little town he'd moved to trying to stay out of the tro......more
If you like Cormac McCarthy you'll like this book. It's a well written, grisly look at corruption in a small Arkansas town. Corruption touches everyone on some level, no matter how innocent they seem.......more
Fast read. Bob Reynolds finds a body in the creek which he drags out. Then he goes in search of a phone to call the local police. When they arrive back at the creek no body is there. Now the local sheriff has told him to pretty much forget what he thought he saw but he cannot. Good read. I would lik......more
“Evil comes in all shapes and sizes, and McKenzie gets the best out of that premise in this chilling portrayal of murder and mayhem. Careful development of each personality adds an outstanding facet to the story.” RT Book Reviews (4 stars)
“Gritty, atmospheric…Among the several entertaining and offbeat characters are a disreputable woman to whom Bob is wildly attracted, a former university professor who leveraged sex from students, and a cafe owner with family issues. The well-executed plot builds to a clever, somewhat farcical ending.” Publishers Weekly
“Thematically very different than McKenzie’s outstanding first novel. But the prose is just as pure and the story just as riveting.” Kirkus Reviews
“There’s a tightness to life in a small town—part of it is fierce loyalty, part long memory. In Burn What Will Burn, small-town life is rendered a snake-pit where self-interest and self-preservation inform every action. Our guide through the backwaters, diners, and abandoned cabins is Bob Reynolds, a fish-out-of-water weirdly suited to his search for truth in a verdant hollow of lies. CB McKenzie builds a world so compelling that the Little Piney Creek showed up in my dreams. I loved every page.” Christian Kiefer, author of The Animals
“Written in richly poetic language and infused with sly humor, CB McKenzie’s brooding, gothic tale of eccentric characters set in backwoods Arkansas will appeal to readers of Daniel Woodrell and Joe Lansdale.” Terry Shames, author of The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake
“Burn What Will Burn is a natural successor to Bad Country, and it will scorch the literary landscape with perfectly structured sentences and blistering prose.” Matthew McBride, author of A Swollen Red Sun