Reviews
And stars continue to hang above THE RIDGE
Another starred review, this time from Library Journal: Koryta, Michael. The Ridge.Little, Brown. Jun. 2011. c.412p. ISBN 9780316053662. $24.99. F Koryta (The Cypress House; So Cold the River) delivers another supernatural thriller with punch. The lives of a...
Stars on THE RIDGE
Courtesy of Publishers Weekly! STARRED REVIEW A rural Kentucky community becomes the unlikely focal point for a series of enigmatic and terrifying events in Koryta's subtle supernatural thriller. When local drunk Wyatt French, who inexplicably built a wooden...
Winnipeg Free Press reports…
That you should read The Cypress House! "With last year's So Cold The River, 20-something Michael Koryta veered from the familiar P.I. genre (his Lincoln Perry series) and started knocking on the door of the creepy-crime school run by Stephen King, Dean Koontz and...
A few international links
Montreal's Jacques Filippi offers a very generous review of The Cypress House: He is a specialist like Scorsese and Hitchcock are in their field. Michael Koryta has already been compared to writers like Stephen King, Peter Straub and Dennis Lehane; soon, if they...
A tremendous honor in the UK
The Observer has named The Cypress House its "thriller of the month" for March. I'm thrilled to share the review below -- deepest thanks to Alison Flood for giving the book her consideration -- and as a former journalist and journalism teacher, I have to point out...
And we’re off…
Only a few days into release for THE CYPRESS HOUSE and we've had some very nice mentions:1) Colette Bancroft's review/interview in the St. Petersburg Times labels the book a "gripping noir thriller-ghost story."2) ABC and the Associated Press call the novel a...