The Ridge Audiobook

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• “A man in love with the woman who shot him. Who could possibly resist that story? Not me. Read on, and discover one of the scariest and most touching horror tales in years.”

  — James Patterson

• “A freshly imagined and elegantly constructed variation on the dead-of-night ghost story…readers are swept along by Koryta’s narrative voice, which is surprisingly soft and low and poetically insinuating.”

  — New York Times

• “Here, Koryta has created a vivid world that’s hard to shake for days after the book is finished. In The Ridge, he has delivered a nuanced supernatural thriller worthy of the praise he’s received and that is surely yet to come.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “A new suspense novel that’s sure to send a few unseasonable shivers down the back of your neck…In addition to being a spooky thriller, the book is about a lot of different kinds of loss and love.”

  — NPR

• “Koryta matches an original and complex plot line with prose full of understated menace.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Koryta…gets deep inside the minds of his protagonists, and the story is intriguing and…spooky. It’s a good book, effectively blending crime and horror…this one will definitely cross over to fans of both genres.”

  — Booklist

• “Koryta delivers another supernatural thriller with punch…Part ghost story, part murder mystery, all thriller, this fast-paced and engaging read will have readers leaving the nightlight on long after they have finished the book.”

  — Library Journal

• “[Koryta] has produced a supernatural thriller that will raise goose bumps the size of golf balls.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• Michael Koryta is a gifted storyteller. His writing reminded me of the great Ruth Rendell--eerie, suspenseful, and pleasantly wicked. If you're looking for a dose of Midwestern Gothic at its best, SO COLD THE RIVER will be just the thing for you.

  — Scott Smith, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins

• A gripping chiller that will keep them guessing - and looking under the covers - until the last page...

  — Library Journal

• An edgy, seat-of-your-pants thriller with a supernatural edge...

  — Entertainment Weekly

• A superior specimen...beautiful and resplendent.

  — Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times

• So Cold the River is a great story, but what held me was the lean, clean prose and the sharp presentation of scenes and dialogue. Michael Koryta is a good story teller and a wonderful stylist.

  — Joe R. Lansdale

• A cataclysmic finale will put readers in mind of some of the best recent works of supernatural horror, among which this book ranks.

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• Kortya's SO COLD THE RIVER is an example of the good-writing equals good-reading equation that makes fright-inducing fiction worthy of our time, attention, and real enjoyment.

  — Dan Simmons, author of The Terror and Drood

• An icy, terrifying winner. So Cold the River puts an October chill in your blood by the end of the first chapter. It's not much longer before you've turned on all the lights and rechecked all the window locks. Few novelists warrant mention alongside Stephen King or Peter Straub. Michael Koryta, however, earns comparison to both.

  — Dennis Lehane

• Koryta has ventured into genre-bending, successfully melding thriller elements to a horror story that recalls Stephen King.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• ACCLAIM FOR SO COLD THE RIVER:"This book builds like a summer storm. Beautiful to watch until it shakes the house and knocks out the lights, leaving you alone in the dark. Another masterful work from Michael Koryta, SO COLD THE RIVERis guaranteed to put the cold finger down your spine.

  — Michael Connelly