If She Wakes
Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she drives to deliver a visiting professor to a conference, a horrific car accident kills the professor and leaves Tara in a vegetative state. At least, so her doctors think. In fact, she's a prisoner of locked-in syndrome: fully alert but unable to […]
Rise the Dark
"A frightening thriller about the holes in our infrastructure and the security protecting it. In this second Markus Novak novel, following 2015's Last Words, Koryta effectively combines a compelling premise, a villain who seems too smart to be stopped, and a revealing look at the hero's dysfunctional family."¯Booklist
Last Words
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/01/2015 This moving series launch from bestseller Koryta (Those Who Wish Me Dead) illustrates why he’s among today’s top thriller writers. PI Mark Novak has not done well since his wife, Lauren, was murdered on her way to an interview on behalf of the Florida firm that specializes in exonerating death-row inmates […]
The Ridge
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: …a freshly imagined and elegantly constructed variation on the dead-of-night ghost story…readers are swept along by Koryta's narrative voice, which is surprisingly soft and low and poetically insinuating, considering the horrors he's relating.
So Cold the River
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: ?a super?natural mystery that intensifies the suspense by thickening the atmosphere. So Cold the River?is a superior specimen, with its eerie tale of a lovely valley in Indiana where at one time an elixir known as Pluto Water bubbled up from the underground springs?Koryta sets a beautiful scene?