Here’s the buzz on The Boy Who Shoots Crows
A Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Pick
Pierce’s Pick of the Week, January Magazine
Pulitzer Prize nominee Ace Atkins describes The Boy Who Shoots Crows as “gripping, heart- breaking…a most impressive achievement.”
Publishers Weekly calls it a “thoughtful character study.”
Fantastic Fiction recommends: ”Silvis writes with an artist’s eye for details.”
Booklist praises “the power of Silvis’ skillfully written exploration of loss, guilt, and expiation.”
Kirkus loves the “hair-raising finale (and) horrific ending.”
Author Kathleen Heady (The Gatehouse) thinks the novel is “amazing.”
New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart calls it, “a literary thriller of the first order. Randall Silvis gets to the hearts and souls of his characters like few other, if any, novelists….”
Blogger Valerie Geary describes the novel as “a chilling psychological thriller that spirals quick and deep into the darkest places of the soul.”
The Mystery Gazette says “the mystery will grip readers.”
The New York Times says the novel “keeps us rapt.”
Author Heidi Ruby Miller (Ambassadora) warns that “the end is not for the faint of heart. The details will haunt you.”
Over My Dead Body! mystery magazine calls the novel “a work of genius…filled with such immense imagery and strength as to make you catch your breath.”
Pulitzer Prize nominee William Allen says, “Whether he writes a literary novel or a genre-busting exploration of the human condition, Randall Silvis is consistently innovative, daring, and even visionary. Book after book after book, he proves again that he is not only this country’s most pitch-perfect stylist, but also one of our most original and most important writers.”
The Boy Who Shoots Crows has been nominated for
The Agatha Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Award
The Mary Higgins Clark Award
The Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence
in Crime Writing
The Pulitzer Prize in Letters
Penguin Books/Berkley Prime Crime ISBN: 9780425243466
Publisher contact: Kayleigh.Clark@us.penguingroup.com
Author contact: prdoublesuns2@yahoo.com
