The Throat, Peter Straub
The Throat, Peter Straub
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The Throat

Bestseller

Author: Peter Straub

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 27 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/06/2011

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

Peter Straub's chilling Blue Rose Trilogy comes to an astonishing close—secrets unearthed, demons revisited, and mysteries solved.The Throat. Tim Underhill, now an acclaimed novelist, travels back to his hometown of Millhaven, Illinois after he gets a call from John Ransom, an old army buddy. Ransom believes there's a copycat killer on the loose, mimicking the Blue Rose murders from decades earlier—he thinks his wife could be a potential victim. Underhill seeks out his old friend Tom Pasmore, an aging hermit who has attained minor celebrity as an expert sleuth, to help him investigate. They quickly discover that Millhaven is a town plagued by horrifying secrets and there is a twisted killer on the loose who is far more dangerous than they ever imagined. Expertly tying together the events of Koko and Mystery, The Throat proves Peter Straub to be the master of the suspense novel.

About Peter Straub

Peter Straub is a New York Times bestselling author, most famous for his work in the horror genre being honored as a grand master at the 1998 World Horror Convention. He has won the World Fantasy Award for Koko (1989), and the Bram Stoker Award for his novels The Throat (1993), Mr. X.(1999) and Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) as well as for his collection of short stories, 5 Stories (2007). He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on August 26, 2016

The Throat is an often brilliant thriller that is concerned with big questions about identity, the past and our memory of it, the demons that shape us and the demons we carry with us. It is intricately structured, densely layered, full of eerie and haunting dreams and flashbacks, and is impressively......more

Goodreads review by Maciek on February 15, 2012

The Throat brings Peter Straub's Blue Rose trilogy to an end. A massive volume, spanning almost 700 pages, it requires a solid investment of time, attention and emotions. The curtains are slowly rolled up, revealing a stage set in Millhaven, Illinois, a fictional city modeled on Straub's own hometow......more

Goodreads review by Carol on August 26, 2022

I started this trilogy several years ago but got waylaid somewhere along the way and realized that I had never read how it ended. I corrected that right away. I'm really glad I still had all the books. Tim Underhill and John Ransom once again are solving a mystery that starts in Vietnam and ends in......more

Goodreads review by Jim on July 01, 2020

This is the final book of a trilogy. This can be read as a stand alone but one might miss some little subtexts if the first two books were not read. In this one, Tim gets a call from a friend back in Millhaven. His friend's wife has been murdered and it looks like she is a victim of the Blue Rose mu......more

Goodreads review by Dxmaniac69 on March 12, 2010

The third book in the Blue Rose trilogy... Holy crap this book affected me. The whole trilogy did actually. It's dark, really dark, so be warned. But it's damned effective. First off, you really should read Koko and Mystery first. Technically the book stands alone and explains what you need to know at......more

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