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Carter & Lovecraft

By: Jonathan L. Howard
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
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Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case - the hunt for a serial killer - went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him.

First, he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he's never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn't want a new boss. She's Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H. P. Lovecraft, the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man. Then people start dying in impossible ways, and while Carter doesn't want to be involved, he's beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. As Carter reluctantly investigates, he discovers that H. P. Lovecraft's tales were more than just fiction, and he must accept another unexpected and far more unwanted inheritance.

©2015 Jonathan L. Howard (P)2015 Macmillan Audio Dark Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Ghosts Horror Science Fiction Steampunk Scary Crime Haunted Detective

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" Carter & Lovecraft is a Pandora's box loaded with all the wonderfully twisted stuff I love, including a two-fisted homicide cop turned PI, warped realities, a mysterious bookstore, the Cthulhu mythos, a dash of romance, and creepy fish-men. What's not to love? Jonathan L. Howard knows how to show his readers a wickedly good time." (Christopher Golden, New York Times best-selling author of Dead Ringers)
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I loved this audio book. It's a fantastic twist on HP Lovecraft, using his ideas but with real characters and excellent writing. I thoroughly recommend the sequel too.

Fantastic twist on HP Lovecraft

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It's rare to find a book or author that does justice to the works of Lovecraft, espesially as a full novel. This book is such a rarity.

Cosmic Horror, done right.

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performance is very good, the story is interesting and the characters fully realised and likeable, the plot is as weird interesting and eldritch as you'd expect. Carter is as if Philip Marlowe had read his own novels, quick, witty, lathered in irony.

Philip Marlowe goes to R'lyeh

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Really enjoyed this as a longtime Lovecraft fan I devour anything linked to him or the mythos.

C&L is a lot of fun. It rarely strays from the structure of a classic Lovecraft story. In fact I would put money on the idea having a basis in the ‘Call of Cthulhu’ roleplaying game.

Dan Carter is a likeable protagonist who despite bemoaning the ‘gumshoe cliche’ has many of the hallmarks of just such a character.

Given HPL’s much written about racism the decision to make his last living descendent African American was a bit gratuitous. While I get the authors intent it seems a bit obvious. That said, Emily Lovecraft is a smart sassy character who’s willingness to accept the haemorrhaging inducing truth about the universe rivals Carters own.

My only minor criticism is the secondary arc involving Emily’s boyfriend seems (at time of listening) a little superfluous to the story. Other than that this story is fab with a killer twist that has opened up our heroes to much more exposure to HPL’s terrifying world.

A must for HPL fans!

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loved this story. characters are developing. based in the real world with a 'twist ' of something darker.

interesting build of an idea

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