An instant USA Today bestseller!Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can’t.Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he’s summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four years ago, with a chilling message: it's happening again.Seemingly innocent people are waking up on the side of the...

A USA Today bestseller!Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award • Winner of the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novel • A Bram Stoker Award Nominee • One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of the Year • An Indie Next Pick!"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight."—Stephen Graham Jones

The instant USA Today bestseller from CJ Leede, author of Maeve Fly—a scorching and sweeping new novel about the end of the world as we know it.“A blistering, feverish ride through a uniquely American apocalypse."—Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling authorNamed one of the Best Horror Books of 2024 (Esquire, Vulture, Paste, ScreenRant, and Literary Hub) • A GoodReads ...

A Los Angeles i bambini costringono i genitori a fare ore di fila per sedersi qualche minuto sulle ginocchia di Maeve, la regina di ghiaccio, il personaggio più amato del parco divertimenti. Non sanno che Maeve uccide, e che di notte corre sulla Sunset Strip a bordo di una Mustang rosa del '67, immersa nel paesaggio narcotico delle luci al neon. Poche cose, oltre al lavoro, contano davvero per lei: la sua migliore amica Kate e il corpo malato di sua nonna Tallulah, ex diva del cinema, vene...

Sophie Allen ha sedici anni e conduce un'esistenza reclusa in una cittadina ultraconservatrice del Midwest. Trascorre le giornate tra la scuola cattolica, la messa e due genitori dispotici, devoti a un dio crudele e onnipresente. Ogni suo sentimento di ribellione è sedato dal senso di colpa e dalla vergogna. Sophie non sa che, però, fuori da quella cupola di bigottismo, l'America sta bruciando. La misteriosa variante di un virus ha preso il sopravvento, e il focolaio si sta rapidamente tra...

'Dazzling . . . You’re gonna have a hard time finding a more thrilling or moving book this year.'– Josh Malerman, author of Incidents Around the HouseAn FBI agent with an uncanny ability to sense danger must hunt down a serial killer through the wilderness of Colorado, in this tense and gripping thrill ride by bestselling author CJ Leede. Perfect for fans of The Shining, Longlegs and Twin Peaks....

From CJ Leede, the author of Maeve Fly and a new voice in the feminist horror space, comes a scorching new apocalyptic novel.Blessed are the meek, Sophie was taught; blessed are the pure of heart. Blessed is the good Catholic girl who honours her father and mother, who renounces the sins of pride, greed, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth, for she will inherit the earth.But nothing in her strict religious upbring cou...

Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can’t.Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he’s summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four years ago, with a chilling message: it's happening again.Seemingly innocent people are waking up on the side of the highway, with no memory of how they got...

Tagsüber arbeitet sie am glücklichsten Ort der Welt, in einem Vergnügungspark in Los Angeles. Die Kinder stehen Schlange, um sie in der Rolle der Eiskönigin zu sehen.Nachts rast Maeve in einem rosa Mustang den Sunset Strip entlang, treibt sich in Spelunken herum und imitiert ihre menschenfeindlichen literarischen Helden.Doch als Gideon Green, der Bruder ihrer besten Freundin, sich mit ihr anfreundet, weckt er etwas Gefährliches in ihr. Alte Wunden brechen wieder auf und für M...

"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight." —Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author“Leede’s words and narrator Sosie Bacon’s voice imbue Maeve with thought-provoking realism and earnestness, even as her violent acts become more savagely creative.” - Library JournalA provocative debut that is both a blood-soaked love letter to Los Angeles and a gleeful send-up to ic...

"Blood-soaked, heart-wrenching, grim and glorious.”—Rachel Harrison**,** national bestselling author of Black SheepFrom CJ Leede, the author of Maeve Fly, comes a scorching new apocalyptic novel. American Gods meets The Last of Us in this epic and sweeping story about the end of the world as we know it.A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust.S...

'Dazzling . . . You’re gonna have a hard time finding a more thrilling or moving book this year.'– Josh Malerman, author of Incidents Around the HouseAn FBI agent with an uncanny ability to sense danger must hunt down a serial killer through the wilderness of Colorado, in this tense and gripping thrill ride by bestselling author CJ Leede. Perfect for fans of The Shining, Longlegs and Twin Peaks....