Good People Audiobook

Quotes

• “Good People is gleefully dread-filled, mercilessly tense, and moves with the speed of something fired from a sawed-off. Based on his first three novels, one can’t help but feel Marcus Sakey is exactly the electric jolt American crime fiction needs.”

  — Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and The Given Day

• “Dark, disturbing, and timely…Marcus Sakey is a prodigious talent.”

  — Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dead Know

• “Crime drama for the twenty-first century.”

  — NPR

• “Sakey creates a moral dilemma fit for an advanced ethics class…I felt the protagonists’ pain to the point of flinching.”

  — Chicago Sun-Times

• “Sakey sees Chicago as a constant source of sin and temptation…[Good People] is a classic bind.”

  — New York Times

• “Masterful. Each of Sakey’s novels has topped the previous. Good People follows that stellar pattern.”

  — Florida Sun-Sentinel

• “A stylish young writer…Good People is a well-structured, tightly written yarn peopled with believable, well-drawn characters.”

  — Associated Press

• “One of the hottest young crime writers in the country.”

  — Oregonian

• “The new master of the dark, hard-boiled crime thriller.”

  — Providence Journal

• “Sakey may have trouble equaling this stellar performance.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “This is neither a simple nor a stereotypical thriller. The action is frenetic, the suspense high, and the results shocking.”

  — Library Journal

• “Chilling…Masterful in showing how the daily drip, drip of dreams deferred can lead people into peril.”

  — Booklist

• “High-intensity, high-stakes…Packed with action, suspense, and clever adversaries on both sides of the law.”

  — BookPage

• “Sakey is a writer’s writer. Not only is the book polished to a razor-edge it’s also filled with flashes of insight that jar you. One of the most cunningly conceived and executed suspense novels I’ve ever read.”

  — Ed Gorman, award-winning author

• “A killer of a book. If you could read it with one eye closed, you’d feel safer—edge of the reader’s seat stuff, and yet a wondrous streak of compassion tears your heart out. This is the novel that truly launches Sakey into the majors. Magnificent.”

  — Ken Bruen, Edgar-nominated author of Priest

• “Good People scared the crap out of me.”

  — Julia Spencer-Fleming, Edgar-nominated author of I Shall Not Want