![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With a set of distinguished skills, he has enjoyed professional success in India, England, and Japan before ultimately landing his current job as a Professor of Medicine in the United States, all overshadowed by the pride he has for his two lovely daughters who serve as his inspiration.īloodbath, the first in a coming series of Indian suspense novels, thrills from start to finish. His studies began at the Armed Forces Medical College in India, where he excelled as a physician, receiving a dozen medals and honorable distinctions that set him apart as the top of the class. Rao has followed, leading to a promising career in writing. Equally surprising to the twists and turns of this unique Indian suspense story is the unusual path Mr. Ray Rao has emerged as a prominent and captivating Indian author with his stunningly brilliant debut novel, Bloodbath. ![]()
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We’d decide on some new features or infrastructure to build for the next two weeks, put an effort estimate on it and get to work. ![]() ![]() ![]() The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.ĭriven by revenge, curiosity, and a thirst for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova-a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.įor McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. In the first two-thirds of the book, Pessl captures the feel of one of Kubrick’s compact, relentless chillers, but during this not-quite-climactic climax, Night Film begins to feel more. ![]() ![]() “Mysterious and even a little head-spinning, an amazing act of imagination.” Dean Baquet, The New York Times ![]() ![]() ![]() Something that is eating away at her and stopping her letting anyone in, least of all Britton. She’s all Britton could ever ask for in a sister, or even a friend––but having survived without either for so long, Britton knows the way her heart races whenever Avery enters the room can only mean one thing… But Avery has a secret. Beautiful, popular and cool, Avery is everything Britton is not. But beginning her senior year with new foster parents in a new city, means starting over yet again. ![]() After a lifetime in the care system, she doesn't expect she’ll ever find one. Then the bedroom door flies open, and someone screams her name… Britton Walsh has never had a home. I’ve been waiting so long for it to happen, and finally, it’s going to. She pushes me up against the wall and we kiss harder than we ever have before. The room is dark, except for the streetlights coming through the blinds. ![]() ![]() These have been shot just outside of town. There are no identifiable faces, no dialogue or explanation-the first video has just the faint sound of someone breathing- but there are some recognizable landmarks. The scenes are odd and sometimes violent, dark, and deeply disquieting. And, indeed, in the middle of each movie, the screen blinks dark for a moment and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged, poorly lit home video. ![]() ![]() Two days later, a different customer returns a different tape, a new release, and says it's not defective, exactly, but altered: "There's another movie on this tape." Jeremy doesn't want to be curious, but he brings the movies home to take a look. But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets -an old movie, starring Boris Karloff, one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store-she has an odd complaint: "There's something on it," she says, but doesn't elaborate. It's good enough for Jeremy: it's a job, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a car wreck. ![]() ![]() This is the late 1990s, and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut, there are still regular customers, a rush in the late afternoon. It's a small town in the center of the state-the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. Summary: Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. ![]() ![]() ![]() The “acts” of the novel are interspersed with some of Faulkner’s dense prose dense in the sense that sentences are frequently half-a-page long or longer, and you won’t know what he’s saying unless you’re reading carefully and go back and break down the sentences into their various parts. The story is told in dramatic form, meaning that reading it is like reading a play. Requiem for a Nun is an odd little book, not a traditional novel. Requiem for a Nun was written around 1951, when Faulkner was 54 years old, about twenty years after Sanctuary. ![]() ![]() William Faulkner, the master of twentieth century Southern American gothic writing, wrote Requiem for a Nun as a sort of sequel to his novel Sanctuary, meaning that it’s a brief glimpse into the life of fallen woman Temple Drake eight years after the close of Sanctuary. Requiem for a Nun ~ A Capsule Book Review By Allen Kopp ![]() |