Lost Mans Lane - Scott Carson - Top Book Pick!

Supernatural Fiction

Rating: 9/10

When I saw the Joe Hill blurb on the front of this book, I snatched it up. I would love to read a book Joe Hill actually wrote, but alas my desires continue to go unsatisfied.

On the way home from getting his driver’s license, Marshall is pulled over by a local cop Maddox. He gets a weird feeling when he spots a young woman crying in the back of the cruiser, and that’s before Maddox utters a sinister threat. Days later, when he discovers there is no cop by that name on the force, he isn’t nearly as surprised as he should be.

Scoring a summer internship with a private investigator seems like a dream come true, and the perfect way to solve the mystery he can’t get out of this head. The author takes the reader on a wickedly wonderful path to coming of age in the vein I have only seen in books by two of my favourite authors. And the twist…it’s a doozy!

Thought provoking in the way only the best of writers can achieve, the reader will ponder the moments in their own lives that occur before making a mistake. That last chance you have to turn the right way before going the wrong way.

At its heart, this is a story of young love, described by the author as follows…

“Many adults do not think of teenage love as a real thing. They think of it as something sweetly silly at best, or hormonal lust at worst, and they forget how authentic it is, how intensely felt. Maybe they diminish it in this way because how awful would it be to admit that your most unguarded, euphoric love might be behind you.”

Book Pairing(s):All The Colours Of The Dark by Chris Whitaker, The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James, Summer Of Night by Dan Simmons