Black Mountain

Written by:
Laird Barron
Narrated by:
William Demeritt

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
2
Narrator
2
Release Date
May 2019
Duration
8 hours 51 minutes
Summary
Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valley, and in his newest case, a seemingly simple murder investigation leads him to the most terrifying enemy he has ever faced

When a small-time criminal named Harold Lee turns up in the Ashokan reservoir--sans a heartbeat, head, or hands--the local mafia capo hires Isaiah Coleridge to look into the matter. The mob likes crime, but only the crime it controls . . . and as it turns out, Lee is the second independent contractor to meet a bad end on the business side of a serrated knife. One such death can be overlooked. Two makes a man wonder.

A guy in Harold Lee's business would make his fair share of enemies, and it seems a likely case of pure revenge. But as Coledrige turns over more stones, he finds himself dragged into something deeper and more insidious than he could have imagined, in a labyrinthine case spanning decades. At the center are an heiress moonlighting as a cabaret dancer, a powerful corporation with high-placed connections, and a serial killer who may have been honing his skills since the Vietnam War. . .

A twisty, action-packed follow-up to the acclaimed Blood Standard, Black Mountain cements Laird Barron as an inventive and remarkable voice in crime fiction.
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Clayton M.

As someone who really enjoys Laird Barron’s short stories, I did not like this book at all. A lot of short stories tend to have relatively uninteresting plots that lead up to a crescendo ending, which works in a short story format. In my opinion, this felt like that format in the shape of a novel and it just didn’t do it for me. All that being said, the narrator was excellent.

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Jason M.

Great book. Great narration

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