Bestselling Horror Writer Keith Rosson Returns to Transom Bookshop
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25 at 3PM
If you’ve been in the shop, you’ll know that I’m a horror fan (to put it lightly). And you may know that I’m even more of a fan of a horror that has some crime elements. And even more of a fan if that horror/crime is the gritty urban noir kind, with supernatural twists with sharp, propulsive writing.
So you’ll not be surprised how insanely frigging thrilled I am that Keith Rosson is coming back to Transom to celebrate the release of his brand-spanking-new novel, Crone, on September 25 at 3pm.
In typical Guest Bookseller fashion, Keith will be casually hanging around the shop, blowing out the Sonos with punk rock, recommending his favorite horror and thriller novels, and of course signing copies of all his books.
Crone (out 9/22) will sell out fast—it’s also our Transom Book Club pick in October—so click here to pre-order ASAP. We will also have copies of Fever House, Devil By Name, and Coffin Moon (freshly out in paperback 9/22) while supplies last.
☆ NO RSVP NECESSARY ☆
“Let there be no doubt: Keith Rosson is the reigning champ of horror noir, fists down,” says bestseller Clay McLeod Chapman, another Transom friend and favorite who has thrown many a horror haymaker in his time (see: Ghost Eaters, What Kind of Mother).
// ABOUT CRONE
A haunting, fearsome story of a father searching for his missing daughter and finding darkness—both human and not—at every turn, from the “mind-blowingly good” (Stephen King) author of Coffin Moon and Fever House.
Eli Lamp is a broken man. An ex-detective, ex-addict, and long-grieving father whose daughter, Hannah, disappeared a decade before, Eli decimated his old life investigating her abduction and is now indebted to the Crooked Wheel, a local drug gang, as an enforcer. He lives in a rundown trailer at the edge of the woods, where he keeps Hannah’s room in pristine condition and tries to make it through one day at a time.
But when the son of the Crooked Wheel’s boss is found viciously murdered in a crime scene that doesn’t seem to add up, Eli receives a new order: Find out who the killer is and your debt to the Crooked Wheel is clear forever. You’re free. This pursuit brings him into the orbit of Avery Bryant, Hannah’s best friend and the last person to see her before she went missing. Soon, Eli and Avery are entwined in a hunt for answers that spans decades, stretches the realm of possibility, and brings churning to the surface a conspiracy linking not only these current tragedies but the buried sorrows of Eli’s past.
And though none of them dare say the word witch, at least not out loud, something lurks in the woods, bent-backed and black-eyed, clawed and vengeful, looming ever closer. . . .