Review and excerpt of Evil Ambulance by Mark Rinker

Review
Evil Ambulance by Mark Rinker starts off at a decent pace and the evil ambulance makes an early appearance but then the suspense slows down considerably. On the plus side, I did like the cast of characters that were created by Mark Rinker, particularly the bookstore owner Bern because he was so quirky and interesting.  Given the title I was expecting more suspense and fear but I found it to be somewhat lacking.
Blurb Eighteen-year-old Eric Donnelly moves to a small town in Pennsylvania, to live with his uncle, Dan, while his parents finalize their divorce. Dan has recently purchased an old house which sits atop a three-mile hill overlooking the town of Riverwood; a house which is host to the decades-old presence of Victor Devlin, a homicidal ambulance driver responsible for a series of brutal murders years before. Eric soon finds himself alone, as the spirit of the ambulance driver begins to inhabit his uncle's body, and each night Devlin's ambulance appears in the driveway, eerily glowing, calling to Eric.  He stepped past Eric and crossed the short distance between their rooms. He found Eric's room bathed in a most unusual glow. Something about the light seemed to move, like fish swimming through it, or waves caressing one another. Waves of dull light. What could possibly be going on here? he thought again.He crossed the room, to the window. Eric stood in the doorway, watching him. Dan placed his hands on the window ledge, propping himself up, because he most definitely felt like he might collapse again.The ambulance, the source of the glow, waited in the driveway. It sat there, still, its engine purring, in terrific shape for a vehicle many decades old. The lights atop the ambulance didn't light up or spin, but were enveloped by—and at the same time, exuding—the yellow, murky glow which consumed the rest of the vehicle.Dan was only able to look at it for about ten seconds—ten seconds in which he was transfixed, absorbed entirely—before a sudden pain, worse than any he'd felt yet, attacked him, hit him square in the forehead, and knocked him to the floor."Dan!" Eric was crossing the room in a hurry.Dan faintly registered the sound of the ambulance pulling out of the driveway. He held both hands to his forehead, tears spilling out of his eyes, the pain driving into his skull, into his brain. He was unable to scream, though he'd never known anything as terrifying as that sudden hellish jolt.
Author Bio Mark R. Rinker was born in California, but has spent most of his life in eastern Pennsylvania. His short story, "Dog Mask" was published earlier this year by Dark Gothic Resurrected magazine, and Evil Ambulance is his first novel. Sites
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