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Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case - the hunt for a serial killer - went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him.

First, he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he's never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn't want a new boss. She's Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H. P. Lovecraft, the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man. Then people start dying in impossible ways, and while Carter doesn't want to be involved, he's beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. As Carter reluctantly investigates, he discovers that H. P. Lovecraft's tales were more than just fiction, and he must accept another unexpected and far more unwanted inheritance.

©2015 Jonathan L. Howard (P)2015 Macmillan Audio Dark Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Ghosts Horror Science Fiction Steampunk Scary Crime Haunted Detective

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" Carter & Lovecraft is a Pandora's box loaded with all the wonderfully twisted stuff I love, including a two-fisted homicide cop turned PI, warped realities, a mysterious bookstore, the Cthulhu mythos, a dash of romance, and creepy fish-men. What's not to love? Jonathan L. Howard knows how to show his readers a wickedly good time." (Christopher Golden, New York Times best-selling author of Dead Ringers)
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I loved this audio book. It's a fantastic twist on HP Lovecraft, using his ideas but with real characters and excellent writing. I thoroughly recommend the sequel too.

Fantastic twist on HP Lovecraft

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It's rare to find a book or author that does justice to the works of Lovecraft, espesially as a full novel. This book is such a rarity.

Cosmic Horror, done right.

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performance is very good, the story is interesting and the characters fully realised and likeable, the plot is as weird interesting and eldritch as you'd expect. Carter is as if Philip Marlowe had read his own novels, quick, witty, lathered in irony.

Philip Marlowe goes to R'lyeh

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This book was awesome I I really like the cojsept of the twist and how it can be used to mess with reality and that bit with the Deep One Awesome simply brilliant

A sequel is needed

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From the Cabal series, to Goon Squad and now this book, the author has proven his versatility.
Obviously the talented narrators give different flavours to the work, but the material definitely seems to be constructed specific to each series.
This one I found to have echos of Steven King, the way he sets his characters and develops their environment.
I suppose all that waffle means, I liked the book and I shall be happily purchasing the next one presently.

Reminiscent of some work by Mr S. King

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