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Valley Of Lights
A routine call to a sleazy Phoenix hotel throws police sergeant Alex Volchak into a world where the brain-dead check themselves out of hospital, and a stranger can seem to know the most intimate details of his life. Like his feelings for Loretta, the neighbour who's more than a friend, and her daughter Georgina, so much the child he never had. Volchak finds himself on the...more
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First published back in 1987, `Valley of Lights' was Gallagher's eighth full length novel to be published.
This murder mystery meets sci-fi horror tale draws heavily from Jack Sholder's film of the same year titled `The Hidden'.
Written predominantly from the first person point of view of Sergeant Alex Volchak, the tale quickly takes on the mysterious storyline of unconnected members of the public being found in comatose states around Phoenix, Arizona (hence the novel's title).
The reader follow...more
This murder mystery meets sci-fi horror tale draws heavily from Jack Sholder's film of the same year titled `The Hidden'.
Written predominantly from the first person point of view of Sergeant Alex Volchak, the tale quickly takes on the mysterious storyline of unconnected members of the public being found in comatose states around Phoenix, Arizona (hence the novel's title).
The reader follow...more
A routine call to a sleazy Phoenix hotel throws police sergeant Alex Volchak into a world where the brain-dead check themselves out of hospital, and a stranger can seem to know the most intimate details of his life. Like his feelings for Loretta, the neighbour who's more than a friend, and her daughter Georgina, so much the child he never had. Volchak finds himself on the hunt for a child killer, someone who can apparently switch bodies with ease, and who is playing games with the police. And t
My introduction to Gallagher's work and I was quite taken with it. A nonstop thrill ride, for sure. I actually got to talk to him about this book and he told me it had begun as a short story that just wouldn't let go. I felt the same way reading it.
Rather strange, still thinking about it. Don't mind unusual books but this book you really have to get your head around
Outstanding neo-police procedural with a supernatural twist. Normally, that sort of description would send me running in the opposite direction, but this was an outstanding book.
Very creepy.
Very creepy.
Not as good as some of his others, but interesting. A quick read.
May 11, 2013
Vikas Nainwal
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
would-read-it-again,
read-in-2013
Apr 21, 2013
Donna
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
other-small-press,
signed-limited
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Also wrote two novelizations of his Doctor Who under the pseudonym John Lydecker.
** Photo by Lisa Bowerman **
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