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Ray’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ray’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Ray Turner’s Followers (17)
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Ray Turner
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A Hard Darkness: Finalist in Next Generation Indie Book Awards
I'm thrilled to announce that my private eye mystery, A Hard Darkness , was recently selected as a FINALIST in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (First Novel category)!Called "first-rate modern noir", this 5-star novel follows PI Nash Tobin as he investigates the bizarre death of a troubled teen. A hardboiled mystery with heart, A Hard Darkness is available now on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. Read more of this blog post »
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Ray’s Recent Updates
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“The greatest heresy is despair”
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel |
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“If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.”
Immanuel Kant |
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"This is the highest rating I've ever given a Christie novel. Do I then think it's the best one? Probably not. But I read it pretty much in a sitting on a long journey and had an absolutely great time with it. As the title suggests, it's very theatric"
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“[They] had not yet acquired enough experience to be convinced that their dreams... could never be realized, and they were therefore not disillusioned enough to be fully impartial and just.”
G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson |
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| This is one of Agatha Christie’s most fiendishly clever books. The solution is brilliant, even astonishing to a first-time reader or viewer. But having “taken the Orient Express” before, I knew the ending. What impressed me this time around was how f ...more | |
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The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group
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My private eye novel A HARD DARKNESS was inspired by the stories and panache of the genre’s great practitioners, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, a
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“And I knew beyond any shadow of doubt: Hope is not just a privilege, it is a duty.”
― A Hard Darkness
― A Hard Darkness
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
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Shakespeare Fans
— 2316 members
— last activity Jul 26, 2025 02:10PM
Anyone who likes Shakespeare and wants to discuss anything about his plays can join!
Classic Horror Lovers
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— last activity Sep 12, 2025 07:27AM
Do you like your horror on the aged side? This group is for readers who love older/classic horror stories and books. Generally, horror published befor ...more
Horror Aficionados
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If you love horror literature, movies, and culture, you're in the right place. Whether it's vampires, werewolves, zombies, serial killers, plagues, or ...more
Literary Darkness
— 4756 members
— last activity 7 hours, 9 min ago
This group is dedicated to an appreciation of important works of literature, both classic and contemporary... that happen to fall into the category of ...more
The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group
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“It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over the ...more
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 313455 members
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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Victorians!
— 3781 members
— last activity Feb 19, 2026 09:07AM
Some of the best books in the world were written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901. What's not to love? Dickens, the Brontes, Co ...more
Pulp Fiction
— 1920 members
— last activity 5 hours, 47 min ago
Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)
Hardboiled American Crime and Worldwide Noir Fiction
— 196 members
— last activity 19 hours, 44 min ago
Started somewhat as a reaction to the British cozy mystery of the Agatha Christie style (think Murder She Wrote), there came a demand for something mo ...more
Thomas Pynchon
— 374 members
— last activity Dec 22, 2025 05:33AM
This is a group for Thomas Pynchon readers, whether casual or fanatical. What's your favourite Pynchon book? What's your favourite Pynchon story? I've ...more
