Novel Suspects Logo

Search

Go to Hachette Book Group home

Search

Promotion

Sign up for our newsletters save 20% off your next purchase. Shop now. 

So Cold the River

So Cold the River Open the full-size image

Contributors

By Michael Koryta

Formats and Prices

Price

$30.99

Price

$39.99 CAD

Format

Format:

  1. Trade Paperback (Large Print) $30.99 $39.99 CAD
  2. ebook $8.99 $11.99 CAD
  3. Audiobook Download (Unabridged)
  4. Trade Paperback $19.99 $25.99 CAD

This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around June 9, 2010. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.

Also available from:

It started with a beautiful woman and a challenge. As a gift for her husband, Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose past is wrapped in mystery. Eric grabs the job even though there are few clues to the man’s past — just the name of his hometown and an antique water bottle he’s kept his entire life.

In Bradford’s hometown, Eric discovers an extraordinary history — a glorious domed hotel where movie stars, presidents, athletes, and mobsters once mingled, and hot springs whose miraculous mineral water cured everything from insomnia to malaria. Neglected for years, the resort has been restored to its former grandeur just in time for Eric’s stay.

Just hours after his arrival, Eric experiences a frighteningly vivid vision. As the days pass, the frequency and intensity of his hallucinations increase and draw Eric deeper into the town’s dark history. He discovers that something besides the hotel has been restored — a long-forgotten evil that will stop at nothing to regain its lost glory. Brilliantly imagined and terrifyingly real, So Cold the River is a tale of irresistible suspense with a racing, unstoppable current.

Genre:

  • ACCLAIM FOR ENVY THE NIGHT (2008)
  • "With Envy the Night, Koryta earns a seat at the high table of neo-noir crime writers."
    Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
  • "Koryta earns a seat at the high table of neo-noir crime writers by putting a fresh spin on the fathers-and-sons narrative so many of his peers feel compelled to write over and over again.... As good as he is at depicting violence, Koryta puts even more muscle into scenes of killers tracking one another in the great outdoors--a talent that...is demonstrated here with brutal artistry."
    New York Times Book Review
  • "Revenge drives this superb stand-alone...Koryta's dialogue is as sharp as the knives his characters wield, and his plot twists at the most unexpected moments. This thriller places Koryta solidly in the company of the genre's most powerful voices."
    Publishers Weekly
  • "Superb writing and storytelling from Michael Koryta...Envy the Night represents his best work to date."
    George Pelecanos
  • "This diabolical novel, laid out in simple but eloquent prose and pitch-perfect dialogue, heralds a changing of the guard. I have seen the future of 'The Best Mystery Writer in America' and its name is Michael Koryta."
    Ridley Pearson
  • "One of the best of the best, plain and simple."
    Michael Connelly

On Sale
Jun 9, 2010
Page Count
704 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9780316085120

You May Also Like

To Die For
To Die For $30.00 $39.00 CAD
Out of Nowhere
Out of Nowhere $10.99 $13.99 CAD
Murder Island
Murder Island $19.99 $25.99 CAD
The Mistress and the Key
The Mistress and the Key $30.00 $39.00 CAD
Lies He Told Me
Lies He Told Me $30.00 $39.00 CAD

Michael Koryta

About the Author

Michael Koryta is the New York Times bestselling author of 12 suspense novels, including Rise the Dark, Last Words, Those Who Wish Me Dead, The Prophet, The Ridge, and So Cold The River.  His work has been praised by Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Daniel Woodrell, Ron Rash, and Scott Smith among many others, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. His books have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar® Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger.

Before turning to writing full-time, Koryta worked as a private investigator, a newspaper reporter, and taught at the Indiana University School of Journalism. Koryta’s first novel, the Edgar-nominated Tonight I Said Goodbye, was accepted for publication when he was 20 years old. He wrote his first two published novels before graduating from college, and was published in nearly 10 languages before he fulfilled the “writing requirement ” classes required for his diploma.

Koryta was raised in Bloomington, Indiana, where he graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.

Koryta and his wife, Christine, divide their time between Bloomington and Camden, Maine, with a cranky cat named Marlowe, an emotionally disturbed cat named John Pryor (named after the gravestone on which he was found as an abandoned kitten), and a dog of unknown heritage named Lola.

 

Learn more about this author