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THE UNFORGETABLE, RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES THRILLER HONORED WITH A STARRED REVIEW IN PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2014 SPECIAL ISSUE
"Hickmon unleashes a shocking blitzkrieg of murder, conspiracy, and child abuse in this disturbing, breathlessly plotted murder mystery [...] Eschewing easy answers for moral complexity, this thriller is unsettling entertainment that offers catharsis." — Publishers Weekly
An Amazon Kindle Best-Seller in Vigilante Justice Thrillers
Detective William Hursel has worked countless murder cases, staring down the cruelest deeds humanity has to offer. But nothing prepares him for what he’ll uncover while pursuing 14-year-old Christopher Pesner, a suspect in the brutal rage-killing of his own mother. While news reports focus on Chris’s odd obsession with the violent, blasphemous heavy metal band, Rehoboam, Hursel suspects a deeper motive — a hunch that is confirmed when Chris’s second victim is discovered. Racing to piece together the identity of Chris’s next target, Hursel descends into a shadowy underworld where human traffickers ply the wealthy and powerful with unseemly indulgences.
"intensely involving as the plot hastens to its climax” — Kirkus Reviews
"succeeded in unnerving me" — Darkness Beckons
"a hard-hitting, emotionally charged crime story" — Midwest Book Review
"Riveting and appropriately disturbing from cover to cover" — San Francisco Book Review
"doesn't let go till the end" – Fresh Fiction
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Reviewed on Page 66 of Publishers Weekly December 2014 "Best Books" annual http://www.digitalpw.com/digitalpw/bestbooks2014?folio=66&pg=1#pg1
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From Kirkus Reviews
March 1, 2014 Issue: Hickmon’s taut, gripping fiction debut journeys into a world of subversive rock-and-roll, dark perversions and deep emotional scars. . . .Hickmon weaves these separate plots together with an unforced ease, as when he effectively portrays Rehoboam’s struggling early years in well-deployed flashbacks. The narrative’s lean, unadorned prose becomes intensely involving as the plot hastens to its climax”--Kirkus Reviews
From the Midwest Book Review
March 2014 Issue: 13:24 – A Story of Faith and Obsession is truly a complex and multi-faceted novel. To call it a crime story would be simplistic: woven within the plot are insights on obsessive behavior patterns, how music can provide subliminal impulses toward destructive actions, and how even religion can provoke a turn to the dark side of death and destruction. The characters are varied, with plausible motivations, often deeply rooted in their pasts. Through their actions, reactions and decisions, an absorbing Biblical mythology comes to life within a modern underworld of human trafficking. . . . Also at stake are beliefs and interactions between secular psychologists, their patients, and lives changed by death, faith, and abuse. It is a story about lifetimes of fear, plots of revenge, and reactions to messages begun in early years; but it is also about choices made along the way. . . . For some readers, this account of obsession, abuse, and redemption could strike too close to home; but those who want a hard-hitting, emotionally charged crime story should place this near the top of their reading list. 13:24′s emotional impact is solid and compelling, dark though it is, and it will keep readers guessing about all the connections and results right up to the blistering conclusion.--D. Donovan, e-book reviewer, Midwest Book Review
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- PublisherRehoboam Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 099110661X
- ISBN 13 9780991106615
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages376
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