Granite Harbor, Peter Nichols
Granite Harbor, Peter Nichols
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Granite Harbor
A Novel

Author: Peter Nichols

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Unabridged: 11 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/30/2024


Synopsis

A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Peter Nichols, bestselling author of The Rocks

In scenic Granite Harbor, life has continued on—quiet and serene—for decades. That is until a local teenager is found brutally murdered in the Settlement, the town’s historic archaeological site. Alex Brangwen, adjusting to life as a single father with a failed career as a novelist, is the town’s sole detective. This is his first murder case and, as both a parent and detective, Alex knows the people of Granite Harbor are looking to him to catch the killer and temper the fear that has descended over the town.

Isabel, a single mother attempting to support her family while healing from her own demons, finds herself in the middle of the case when she begins working at the Settlement. Her son, Ethan, and Alex’s daughter, Sophie, were best friends with the victim. When a second teenager is found murdered, the body left in the same manner as the first victim, both parents are terrified that their child may be next. As Alex and Isabel race to find the killer in their midst, the town’s secrets—past and present—begin bubbling to the surface, threatening to unravel the tight-knit community.

At once a page-turning thriller and a captivating portrait of the social fabric of a small town, Granite Harbor evokes the atmosphere of HBO’s Mare of Easttown with a villain reminiscent of Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs.

A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.

About Peter Nichols

Peter Nichols is the author of the bestselling novel The Rocks; the nonfiction bestsellers A Voyage for Madmen and Evolution's Captain; and several other books of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. His novel Voyage to the North Star was nominated for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award, and his journalism has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and has taught creative writing there and at Georgetown University, Bowdoin College, and New York University in Paris. Before turning to writing full-time, he held a 100-ton USCG Ocean Operator’s license and was a professional yacht delivery captain for ten years. He has also worked in advertising in London, as a screenwriter in Los Angeles, a shepherd in Wales, and has sailed alone in a small boat across the Atlantic. He is a member of The Explorers Club of New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jayme on April 30, 2024

I highly suggest that you SKIP the official synopsis for this novel as it reveals something that doesn’t happen until almost the THREE QUARTER mark of the book-and I think the story would have had MUCH MORE of an impact on me-if I hadn’t known what was coming!! *SPOILER FREE REVIEW * Life in Granite H......more

Goodreads review by LIsa Noell "Rocking the chutzpah!" on March 24, 2024

My thanks to Celadon books, Peter Nichols and Netgalley. So, I initially had a difficult time with this story. Honestly? I think it was mostly due to the fact that I had a few surgeries, on top of some stupid heart monitor and the knowledge of how soon the next "medical adventure" will be. Dudes and......more

Goodreads review by Provin on June 03, 2024

Granite Harbor survives on tourist. A beautiful coastal town, peaceful and relaxing for visitors to get away and refresh. That is until a serial killer starts murdering teenagers in the town. Alex Brangwen is the town detective and he must find the killer. But Alex isn’t a “real“ detective. He is ju......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on May 21, 2024

**Many thanks to @CeladonBooks and Peter Nichols for an ARC of this book provided via NetGalley!** THUD. No, that isn't the sound of a large chunk of granite being hurled into a harbor. (And yes, though that has little to do with this book, that IS one of the images that came to mind when I first......more

Goodreads review by Linzie (suspenseisthrillingme) on May 15, 2024

In scenic Granite Harbor, life has continued on―quiet and serene―for decades. That is until a local teenager is found brutally murdered in the Settlement, the town’s historic archaeological site. Alex Brangwen, adjusting to life as a single father with a failed career as a novelist, is the town’s so......more


Quotes

“At once tender and harrowing, Granite Harbor uses a nuanced human lens to examine a community in peril. Peter Nichols turns his mastery of language to the mystery novel, and spins it into visceral terror. A gripping thriller from an exciting new crime writer.”
—Danya Kukafka, author of the Edgar Award Winning Notes on an Execution and Girl in Snow

“A failed novelist turned detective investigates his first murder case in a small town. A serial-killer thriller to make you shudder. It’s grisly, unsettling, and dark—and also a beautifully written, deeply felt, and moving tale of family relationships. I loved it."
—Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Fury

“Peter Nichols is a remarkably inventive, versatile writer, a master of the emotionally resonant page-turner. And now he’s written a literal thriller, complete with a brilliantly compelling killer with a fiendishly shocking method. Even better, underlying Nichols’s wildly original plot is a bedrock of strong characters, a community of parents and children, lovers and friends, colleagues and rivals, all connected in deep, moving, surprising, and inspiring ways. I loved Granite Harbor for the sheer skill and brio of Nichols’s storytelling. But more than that, I’m now invested in this town and its inhabitants, rooting for his wonderful detective, and hoping for a sequel. Or a series.”
—Kate Christensen, author of Welcome Home, Stranger

“Stephen King is no longer the only master of psychological thriller set in the seeming idyll of small-town Maine. With Granite Harbor, Peter Nichols brings a sharp eye for character and nuance to a twisting tale of horror and betrayals both large and small in a small, long-memoried town, weaving a murder mystery as delicate and devastating as an onion spun out of glass. You will never look at coastal New England in the same way again. I know I won’t.”
—Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of A True Account

"Well-written, character-driven portrait of small-town New England meets Silence of the Lambs."
—Kirkus Reviews

"A grisly and fiendishly inventive murder mystery that will rattle even seasoned genre fans."
—Publishers Weekly