The Ridge by Michael Koryta, Arena, $24.99.
Just like Deputy Sheriff Kevin Kimble and local journalist Roy Damus, you’ll ever so slowly be convinced that there’s something not quite human about the dramas unfolding at Blade Ridge.
There are the unexplained car wrecks, drownings and suicides. And they’re made even stranger by the number of survivors who walk away without a scratch.
Beautiful killer Jacqueline Mathis knows what’s there, so do the big cats at the local wildlife preserve, and crazy drunk Wyatt French didn’t build a lighthouse many miles from the sea for no good reason.
This forgotten part of Kentucky has a brutal history, one that’s never quite disappeared. But how can two ordinary men fight an evil they cannot see?
The Ridge starts as a mystery, quickly becomes a thriller, and then descends relentlessly into the realms of horror.
Koryta’s great achievement is in making this supernatural story frighteningly real.
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