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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert

 


When life imitates art, it can be a good thing. For author Ben Bookman, however that is not a good thing. Someone is copying the murders of his most recent book. This understandably leads to him being a suspect for these killings. What follows is a thrilling mystery of who is doing the crimes and why. The book itself has several tropes that I am not really a fan of (i.e., jumping from past and present, authors as the main character, and problems that could be avoided if people just explained things), however, J.H. Market makes it work in this book and I was able to get passed my hangups. When the book jumps back to the past, it leaves little clues on what is going on and gives more backstory to those involved.  The book was well written and did a decent job keeping me interested in the book, but it was pretty early on in the book when I figured what was going on. It was a good book to read but if I hadn’t read it I would have not missed anything new. 3 out of 5 stars


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