Dead Harvest / Chris F Holm
“Jim Thompson meets John Milton in this thrilling supernatural riff
on the old collections racket. This gripping supernatural adventure
gives a whole new meaning to ‘possession is nine-tenths of the law.’”
– Edgar and Shamus Award-winning author Charles Ardai
“The Collector series gets off to a strong start with this noir urban fantasy,
a very promising first novel.” – Locus Magazine
About the Book:
Meet Sam Thornton. He collects souls.
Sam’s job is to collect the souls of the damned, and ensure they are dispatched to the appropriate destination. But when he’s sent to collect the soul of a young woman he believes to be innocent of the horrific crime that’s doomed her to Hell, he says something no Collector has ever said before.
“No.”
File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Souled Out | Damned If You Don't | Collector Mania | On The Run ]
More praise for Dead Harvest…
“The breakneck pace of the narrative, and the world Holm creates, make for a thrillingly brutal ride.”
- SFX Magazine
“Chris F. Holm clearly had both angels and devils watching over him as he wrote Dead Harvest. Thrilling, riveting and hardboiled as hell, this stunning debut still manages to be incredibly soulful. If I could recommend one book to everyone this year, this would be it.”
- Anthony, Ellis & Macavity Award-nominated author Hilary Davidson
“Get a nicotine patch cause you’ll be smokin’ by the end of Dead Harvest. A surreal page-turner where crime meets goth meets fantasy meets horror, strips the elements of everything you knew about storytelling, and creates a new genre called Chris F. Holm!”
- Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana
“With Dead Harvest, Chris F. Holm splices genres in a way few authors can pull off, in the process delivering an action-packed rollercoaster of a novel that will enthrall thriller and fantasy readers alike. A superb debut from a talent to watch.”
- Stuart Neville, LA Times Book Prize and Spinetingler Award winner
“Sam Spade meets The Matrix. Punchy, fast-paced and finely plotted.”
- Mike Shevdon, author of Sixty-One Nails
“Holm’s touch is deft and his language surefooted, a rare feat in the realm of dark fantasy. Dead Harvest blends backstory just wrenching enough, victims just pitiable enough, villains just ambiguous enough to keep everything on the thrummingly interesting side of noir, never bogging down in cliche. And the white-knuckle action is an indulgent pleasure – this book practically turns its own pages. The best books combine the smart with the careening, and Holm does that so well.”
- Sophie Littlefield, award-winning author of Aftertime
“Many writers are capable of creating a fantasy world, but there are only a few who have the gift of making us believe in it… Dark fantasy? Horror fiction? An occult mystery? Dead Harvest is all of those. Making it a hard book to categorize. But an even harder one to put down.”
- Leighton Gage, author of the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series
“The fight between heaven and hell takes a turn for the hardboiled in Chris F. Holm’s fantastic debut novel, Dead Harvest, where he’s created a character as pulpy and tough as anything Chandler or Hammett dreamed up in his doomed Soul Collector. Holm’s writing is sharp, powerful, and packs a wallop.”
- Stephen Blackmoore, author of City of the Lost
“[Dead Harvest] promises to mess with your perception of unseen realities … this one goes looking for the lines so it can jump over them, gleefully mixes it’s genre ingredients and plays with Sunday School and horror tropes in equal measure without feeling derivative.”
– Jedidiah-Ayres, B&N Mystery Blog
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