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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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January 2009
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https://www.goodreads.com/woadwarrior
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
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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“The greatest heresy is despair”
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“If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.”
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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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| 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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“The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.”
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Shakespeare Fans
— 2318 members
— last activity Mar 28, 2026 10:01AM
Anyone who likes Shakespeare and wants to discuss anything about his plays can join!
Classic Horror Lovers
— 1512 members
— 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
— 30196 members
— last activity 22 minutes ago
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
— 4794 members
— last activity 7 hours, 55 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
— 32339 members
— last activity 2 hours, 18 min ago
“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
— 321288 members
— last activity 28 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Victorians!
— 3800 members
— last activity 7 hours, 11 min ago
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
— 1931 members
— last activity 2 hours, 6 min ago
Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)
Hardboiled American Crime and Worldwide Noir Fiction
— 198 members
— last activity Mar 21, 2026 08:10PM
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
— 377 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
