Bone white

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321 pages

English language

Published Jan. 21, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-4967-0388-0
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OCLC Number:
962015929

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"A landscape of frozen darkness punctuated by grim, gray days. The feeling like a buzz in your teeth. The scrape of bone on bone...Paul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police to his victims' graves, in remote Dread's Hand, Alaska. It's not even a town; more like the bad memory of a town. The same bit of wilderness where his twin brother went missing a year ago. As the bodies are exhumed, Paul travels to Alaska to get closure and put his grief to rest. But the mystery is only beginning. What Paul finds are superstitious locals who talk of the devil stealing souls, and a line of wooden crosses to keep what's in the woods from coming out. He finds no closure because no one can explain exactly what happened to Danny. And the more he searches for answers, the more he finds himself …

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reviewed Bone white by Ronald Damien Malfi

What Even Is Horror?

This was a fun read. Lots of dark doings, supernatural mystery, and bloody mayhem. But... I don't know if I'm even cut out for American horror anymore, because it was all so distant. When I think back on the horror stories that have given me the heebie jeebies, that have made me afraid to turn off the light at night, that have SCARED me, they all brought the scary stuff home. They wormed into my brain and ruined the feeling that I was safe in my own home, or my own brain. This one is so thoroughly distant (the Alaskan Wilderness! Don't go into the woods and you're safe!) that it reads more like dark fantasy. But it was solidly written (apart from the tendency to use big words that the author doesn't quite get right) and original. So, good times.

reviewed Bone white by Ronald Damien Malfi

Review of 'Bone white' on 'Goodreads'

"What you got all over them clothes?"
"Is that blood on your clothes Joe?"

In the tiny frozen mining village of Dread's Hand Alaska, where an unusual amount of people go missing, a killer steps forward to lead the authorities to 8 bodies he's buried.
When Paul Gallo sees this on the news, he drops everything to rush there, where he hopes at last to find closure in the search for his missing brother Danny. Paul has always tried to watch out for Danny, what with being the oldest of the two by a good seven minutes. He will not rest until he finds out what happened to him. Nobody seems to want Paul there, strangers are not welcome and the locals have some odd superstitions, especially about what goes on in those woods. But are they only local legend or is there really something supernatural going on? The 8 …

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Subjects

  • Murder
  • Investigation
  • Missing persons
  • Twins
  • Serial murderers
  • Fiction

Places

  • Alaska