Niceville

Editorial Reviews

"Terrific dialogue, oddball characters, and a wild story make this a great read." - Elmore Leonard

"Stroud’s sardonic story often recalls a Hieronymus Bosch landscape, teeming with sinners, monsters and madmen. These horrors won’t be for everyone, but the book also offers surprises, shocks, moments of lyricism, explosions of humor and unrelenting suspense. It’s superior storytelling. Call it the summer’s darkest, most delicious guilty pleasure." - Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post

"Carsten Stroud's hard-boiled and engrossing Niceville rockets around its deceptively staid southern town, pulling bad guys and worse guys and long-ago misdeeds into a widening and unfolding tale about every kind of wickedness. Somehow it manages to get tighter, nastier, and more delightful as it rolls along toward its lovely and completely black-hearted final pages." - Peter Straub

"[An] A-ticket thrill-ride . . . As enthralling as a tale by the Brothers Grimm." - Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

"Take a pinch of brilliant characters. Stir in some snappy dialogue and a helping of high-octane plot. Blend with a fantastically spooky location and serve hot. Carsten Stroud’s bouillabaisse of a new novel is a simmering read; one part thriller, one part suspense, and taken with a hefty sprinkling of supernatural hot spice, it’s one of the most compulsive page-turners of the year." - A.J. Kirby, The New York Journal of Books

"A unique genre-bending novel that will haunt readers long after the last page… Niceville is a town readers have to visit for themselves in order to believe." - Elizabeth Rabin, Fredericksburg Free Lance Star

"A compelling work that grabs your attention from page one." - Karin Slaughter

"A truly one-of-a-kind tour de force, Niceville may be hard to categorize by genre, but it’s easy to describe as a reading experience – wildly, insanely entertaining!" - John Lescroart