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"Some of Michael Kimball’s humor is black and some of it is blue, and he shoots it at us at a whiz-bang slapstick pace that leaves us alternately laughing, squirming and gasping for breath." -Boston Globe "An extremely talented humorist."
-Kirkus Reviews "Kimball is humane enough to capture our hearts and wicked enough to make us laugh our asses off." -Stephen King
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"The best suspense stories are the ones that creep up on you, breathe on your next, and jump back into the shadows when you turn around. Michael Kimball plays that game with unnerving skill." -The New York Times |
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Greengirls by Michael Kimball
In the tradition of his previous bestsellers Undone and Mouth to Mouth, Michael Kimball returns with GREEN GIRLS, a thriller infused with eroticism, phobia, and obsession. GREEN GIRLS tells the story of Jacob Winter, a Kittery writer who refuses to take the medication his therapist prescribed to calm his over-active imagination. To keep his life in check, Jacob adheres to a strict routine, grounding himself in practicality to provide for his beloved wife and son. But when Jacob discovers Laura having an affair with that very psychiatrist, he loses all control–and awakens in jail, charged with attempted murder. Bailed by a pair of mysterious women from his past, before Jacob can unravel their interest in him, he finds himself watching helplessly as one falls from the Piscataqua River Bridge . . . and the other entangles him in an obsessive romance. And suddenly Jacob Winter becomes the subject of a bizarre murder investigation that extends far beyond the borders of Maine, to the mountains of Colombia and an ancient shamanistic Indian civilization. Or . . . could it all be a product of his guilt-ridden imagination? As the novel races toward its hair-raising finale, Jacob must finally distinguish fact from fantasy, or he will lose the people he truly loves . . .forever. Michael Kimball's books have been praised on both side of the Atlantic as smart, sleek page-turners that are as much about playing on our rawest emotions as they are about language and style. His vivid, atmospheric stories inspired Stephen King to call Kimball’s novel Undone "Sly, sexy, suspenseful...The sort of book you think about during the day and can't wait to settle back into at night."
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Prologue
A great time to figure things out. The young man plummets from the top of the bridge, his mind scattered in the ocean wind, reaching for the sky, silent, weightless, balanced against the crescent moon. Time slows down as the trussed steel of the bridge whispers past. The young man can not only smell the river that rises to meet him, he has time to consider how a particular mustiness tinges the odor.It’s metabolism, the reason time slows down. Hummingbirds, for example, have such a high metabolic rate that they perceive human movement in slow motion. To a fruit fly, we are statues; their day on earth lasts a lifetime.In humans, fear increases metabolism . . . which is why the victim of a car wreck will describe the accident as though it happened in slow-motion. Extreme fear causes extreme time stall. What is the limit? It’s long been acknowledged that some people who fall to their deaths actually die of heart failure before they land. Perhaps they die of old age. In the 4.03 seconds it takes to fall 250 feet, from the top of the Piscataqua River Bridge to the water, a man can do a lot of thinking. Not that Jacob Winter is watching his life pass before him. He is simply seeing how things came to be.
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Reviews
Kimball (Undone, Mouth to Mouth) builds twist and turns to a spine tingling climax." "Fascinating . . . a many-sided mystery of subtlety and cleverness. Kimball is a Writer with a capital W, no question about it. He crafts his characters with the skills of a Renaissance sculptor. The plot, too, is intricate and charged with surprise. There is adrenaline-pumping suspense all along the way, for Kimball is a master of the art, fashioning suspense with the precise and delicate skills of a diamond cutter. There are no slips here. Kimball gathers you in the sinewy arms of his intelligent prose and carries you off on an adventure. He tells a splendid story and tells it well." "The quintessential Maine thriller." "A chilling suspense thriller. A classic mystery filled with tension, strong characters, emotion, red herrings, and clever plot twists. A wild and fun whodunnit. Kimball is an exciting writer who has clearly mastered the suspense novel." "Dark
and intense, full of riveting plot twists and secrets exposed, Green Girls
is as good a thriller as you are likely to find." "Kimball is a talented thriller writer with a rare gift for depicting
character."
"Green
Girls is in my opinion a great masterpiece. Kimball has written an unusual
and gripping yarn."
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