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Bad Thoughts [Kindle Edition]

Dave Zeltserman
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From Shamus Award-winning author Dave Zeltserman comes a dark, captivating thriller unlike any you've ever seen, a killer unlike any you've ever imagined, and an ending unlike any you've ever dreamed of.

One afternoon 13 year-old Billy Shannon comes home to a living nightmare. His mother being brutally murdered is only the beginning...

20 years later, Bill Shannon is now a cop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the twenty-year anniversary of his mother's death is approaching, women are being murdered in the same horrific grisly fashion. And while this is going on, he's having blackouts which only seem to be getting worse...

Everything seems to be pointing to one of two possibilities: Shannon has gone insane or his mom's killer is back to his old tricks. Except if it's mom's killer, he's come back a long way to do these new killings... all the way from the grave.

"Dark, brutal, captivating -- this is one hell of a book, the kind of book that doesn't let go of you once you start it. Dave Zeltserman is clearly the real deal." Steve Hamilton, Edgard Award-winning author of the THE LOCK ARTIST

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 387 KB
  • Print Length: 279 pages
  • Publisher: Top Suspense Books (4 Jun 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003QCIPRE
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #83,574 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Excellent read 13 Mar 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
I nearly didn't get this book because of the first review but I thought it was a good read. The characters pulled me in quickly and the idea of how the Billy Boy was controlled really got my imagination. Definitely worth a read and I will be looking for other books by this author.
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The premise was great but I didn't care about the characters. It was also nastily violent towards the end. That works if there is a lot of depth to the characters but otherwise it feels sensationalist. The twist is excellent - it's just such a shame I wasn't pulled into the book enough to care.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Unorthodox Means Good 5 May 2010
By Frank S. Scalise - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
BAD THOUGHTS is not your typical mystery or crime fiction novel. It reminds me more of something along the lines of the Denzel Washington movie, "Fallen." Something that starts out seeming like crime fiction and becomes something spookier. Zeltserman gives the term "psychological thriller" new meaning, writing in a carefully controlled but seemingly scattered fashion that makes the reader as edgy as the protagonist. Give this one a whirl, especially if you're looking for something off the beaten path. Expect to read it in just a few sittings, though. Once it starts rocking, it really rolls.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Very Different to Zeltserman's Latest Novels 29 Oct 2010
By James N Simpson - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This is not a bad novel but if you're expecting something plot wise like Zeltserman's last couple of novels such as Small Crimes and Outsourced, well you're in for a surprise. Bad Thoughts is a combination hard violent crimes and homicide police detectives type story running into supernatural Nightmare on Elm Streetish type world. Although not his first novel, (he did write one called Fast Lane six years before this in 2001) this was still an early career effort for Zeltserman, in fact it was only his second novel. At the times the quality of writing especially in conversations isn't as high as he would later develop with more recent novels. The villain's traits also seem a bit cartoonish at times, but none of this means you won't enjoy Bad Thoughts. It's just a fair bit different from his more successful later work. If your thoughts were you'd like to read more, there's also a sequel called Bad Karma.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
This is a must read for thriller fans 26 July 2007
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Considering the trauma he experienced when he was thirteen years old and the emotional abuse he suffered at the hands of his father, Billy Shannon grew up to be a fine man and a fantastic police officer. However, a few weeks before the anniversary of his mother's death, he begins to dream but they are no ordinary nocturnal reveries. This year he dreams of a woman who was murdered and from his mind he pulls out the real time location of where her body is located.

He experiences his usual blackout after he goes on his yearly "binge" but this time the dreams don't stop. Two other murders occur to women and in the same manner in which his mom was murdered, a knife in her throat by drifter Herbert Winters. All the evidence points to Shannon as the killer and he keeps dreaming and hearing the whispers of Herbert Winters claiming one of his alter egos are killing the women. Shannon knows he has killed nobody but he also believes Herbert isn't the murderer because he killed him when he was thirteen after hours of torture. Someone is out to frame him for the killings and when he figures out why, he will know who and the reason this person has such a malevolent lethal grudge against him.

David Zeltserman is a talented noir thriller writer who throws one surprise after another at the audience so that they find themselves totally bewildered about what is really happening to the protagonist. Shannon has not had an easy life but his suffering never turned him to the dark side. Instead it made him a strong person determined to see justice is done which is why he became a police officer. The villain is so over the top that he makes the audience feel creepy as if spiders are crawling all over their bodies. This is a must read for thriller fans.

Harriet Klausner
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