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Thriller Suspense Horror Box Set
Happy Nightmares! at a killer price.
From Susan May, the author readers call the new Stephen King, comes three page-turner thriller, suspense novels to keep you reading way past your bedtime.
DEADLY MESSENGERS Nobody's listening, so he'll just keep killing.
Three massacres in the same city, the same month. Two detectives discover a link that can't possibly exist. One journalist unwittingly holds the answers. Zero clues to a killer who sends a deadly message.
Kendall's usual freelance work consists of fluff magazine pieces until she scores an interview with the survivor of a horrific mass killing. Seven people brutally murdered with an axe at a cafe, with the killer left dead at the scene. She’ll soon discover these killings are part of a plan far greater than just these crimes. Someone is sending a message and soon many more will die.
BEHIND THE FIRE What if all that stood between us and hell was a match?
An ordinary couple stand accused of a heinous crime. They're the last people you'd expect to save the world. Are they criminals, heroes or completely insane? Or maybe all three?
A single mom struggles with unexplained lost time. An angry young woman makes a fatal mistake, taking them on a collision course that will shatter their lives to pieces.
Since childhood, Dawn has "lost time." She awakens in strange places, far away from her last memory. Now she's just trying to be a good mom to her son while fearing another blackout episode. Kylie is over her dead-end job and has just been fired. As she drives from the supermarket lot, she picks up her cell to send a text. In the next terrifying moment, she’ll realize the gravity of her mistake when Dawn’s and her destinies collide.
From Susan May, the author readers call the new Stephen King, comes three page-turner thriller, suspense novels to keep you reading way past your bedtime.
DEADLY MESSENGERS Nobody's listening, so he'll just keep killing.
Three massacres in the same city, the same month. Two detectives discover a link that can't possibly exist. One journalist unwittingly holds the answers. Zero clues to a killer who sends a deadly message.
Kendall's usual freelance work consists of fluff magazine pieces until she scores an interview with the survivor of a horrific mass killing. Seven people brutally murdered with an axe at a cafe, with the killer left dead at the scene. She’ll soon discover these killings are part of a plan far greater than just these crimes. Someone is sending a message and soon many more will die.
BEHIND THE FIRE What if all that stood between us and hell was a match?
An ordinary couple stand accused of a heinous crime. They're the last people you'd expect to save the world. Are they criminals, heroes or completely insane? Or maybe all three?
Something terrifying has led Bobby and Emily to leave their two young children with a sitter while they embarked on a crazy fire-bug spree. That something was an incredible secret they'd promised to protect. Inspired by true-life headlines, this is the tale of the random appearances of frightening black things, and one couple's battle to protect their town from these dangerous and hellish creatures.
A single mom struggles with unexplained lost time. An angry young woman makes a fatal mistake, taking them on a collision course that will shatter their lives to pieces.
Since childhood, Dawn has "lost time." She awakens in strange places, far away from her last memory. Now she's just trying to be a good mom to her son while fearing another blackout episode. Kylie is over her dead-end job and has just been fired. As she drives from the supermarket lot, she picks up her cell to send a text. In the next terrifying moment, she’ll realize the gravity of her mistake when Dawn’s and her destinies collide.
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Published August 16, 16
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Susan May
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I was four when I decided I would be a writer, packed a bag, and marched down the road looking for a school. But for forty-six years, I suffered from life-gets-in-the-way-osis. Setting a goal to write just one page a day cured me in 2010. This discipline grew into an addictive habit that has since borne several novels, and dozens of short stories and novellas--many of which are published award-winners in Australia, the US and the UK.
My childhood reading diet consisted of Edgar Allen Poe, O'Henry, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, plus horror comics like Tales From the Crypt. Anything out of this world like The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits had me glued to the television.
Inspired by these classics, I attempt to pen tales that are simply about the story and the characters and not about fancy words or beautiful descriptions. At the end of my stories I hope, wonderful reader, that you will feel you've enjoyed a journey into the fantastic with a neat twist at the end.
Every day I pinch myself that I am able to do what I love and be in control of every facet of it. And I can wear my track suit pants and slippers while doing it. Bliss.
Most days I'm just an average mother and wife living in Perth, Western Australia, but this darn imagination of mine keeps constantly venturing into the crevices of dark worlds, whether I want to go there or not.
susanmaywriter.net/free-books
I was four when I decided I would be a writer, packed a bag, and marched down the road looking for a school. But for forty-six years, I suffered from life-gets-in-the-way-osis. Setting a goal to write just one page a day cured me in 2010. This discipline grew into an addictive habit that has since borne several novels, and dozens of short stories and novellas--many of which are published award-winners in Australia, the US and the UK.
My childhood reading diet consisted of Edgar Allen Poe, O'Henry, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, plus horror comics like Tales From the Crypt. Anything out of this world like The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits had me glued to the television.
Inspired by these classics, I attempt to pen tales that are simply about the story and the characters and not about fancy words or beautiful descriptions. At the end of my stories I hope, wonderful reader, that you will feel you've enjoyed a journey into the fantastic with a neat twist at the end.
Every day I pinch myself that I am able to do what I love and be in control of every facet of it. And I can wear my track suit pants and slippers while doing it. Bliss.
Most days I'm just an average mother and wife living in Perth, Western Australia, but this darn imagination of mine keeps constantly venturing into the crevices of dark worlds, whether I want to go there or not.
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September 4, 2016
Box sets don't usually grab me as I already have the individual volumes. Susan May, once again, proves the opposite to be true. These three novels, now in a handy one-stop-shop-reading set is a perfect and I mean PERFECT companion piece to her Behind Dark Doors series of three volumes of six short stories each. Everything you may have read about May as the new Stephen King (I'm dropping the "female" Stephen King; hell if you can write, let's stop the gender 'pat on the head'.) is not hyperbole. She can write. Comparisons to King, Phillip K. Dick, Richard Mattheson, as well as Shirley Jackson, Gillian Flynn and Liane Moriarty (another Aussie. What is in the water 'down under'?) are valid and her talent as being a fabulous story teller, with well defined characters that are not all likable are just another two of many reasons she is one of the must read genre authors early in this 21st century. Well, gobble this set up. It's a bargain and you won't go stumbling around at night and stubbing your toe looking for her next work. I am so delighted to have found her and always wait with bated breath for her next work.
Each novel is unique and if you think you've read one you can figure out where the other two are going, well............too bad. You are way off track
Each novel contains the supernatural, the psychological thriller and horror. Are they present in each? One, two or all three? You'll figure that out on your own.
So, don't squander any more time, get this box set. And if you share it with your friends, damnit, get it back or you'll be sorry.
Each novel is unique and if you think you've read one you can figure out where the other two are going, well............too bad. You are way off track
Each novel contains the supernatural, the psychological thriller and horror. Are they present in each? One, two or all three? You'll figure that out on your own.
So, don't squander any more time, get this box set. And if you share it with your friends, damnit, get it back or you'll be sorry.
May 30, 2017
Deadly Messengers was an interesting story but the characters didn't have time to develop. I'm usually all about descriptive writing but, it was way too much for me. Page after page describing one thing.
Behind The Fire was terrible. No closure, no real story at all. I felt like I wasted my time with it. The author named the woman Emily but calls her Emma randomly all throughout the book.
I didn't read the third book, I disliked the first two so much that I just didn't even give the third one a try.
Behind The Fire was terrible. No closure, no real story at all. I felt like I wasted my time with it. The author named the woman Emily but calls her Emma randomly all throughout the book.
I didn't read the third book, I disliked the first two so much that I just didn't even give the third one a try.
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April 11, 2017
Time loop sci-fi
It was great. After all that struggle and spark that made the difference in the end,the arduous will do right a wrong, the end had me crying. No need for spoilers though. Find out for yourself.
It was great. After all that struggle and spark that made the difference in the end,the arduous will do right a wrong, the end had me crying. No need for spoilers though. Find out for yourself.
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