{"product_id":"calico-one-of-the-most-gripping-and-twistiest-thrillers-youll-read-this-year","title":"CALICO one of the most gripping and twistiest thrillers you'll read this year","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author\u003cbr\u003e\n BUCKLE UP FOR THE TWISTIEST THRILLER YOU WILL READ THIS YEAR.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n 'A genre-bending, gripping read' — Harlan Coben\u003cbr\u003e\n 'A mind-bending thriller unlike anything I have read before' — Linwood Barclay\u003cbr\u003e\n 'Could be Lee Goldberg's best ever' — Lee Child\u003cbr\u003e\n 'I guarantee you've never read a crime novel like it. The X Files meets Deadwood. Totally gripping' — Ian Rankin\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n A man walks into the path of an oncoming motor home in the Mojave Desert.\u003cbr\u003e\n He's dressed like an 1880s miner. His bones are over a hundred years old.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Welcome to Barstow.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Detective Beth McDade was an LAPD homicide cop until she wasn't. Now she's working the graveyard shift in a town nobody chooses, and she has a body in Yermo she can't explain. The security camera caught the dead man running into traffic seconds after a flash of lightning that wasn't really lightning, more like something tearing a hole in the sky.\u003cbr\u003e\n Days later, an LA food blogger vanishes off the same stretch of Interstate 15. The last footage of him alive shows him buying beef jerky at a gas station up the road.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n When his skeleton turns up — a hundred years in the ground — and the dental records match the man on camera, Beth realises something out there in the desert is moving people through time.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n And it's been doing it for a very long time.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Praise for Calico\u003cbr\u003e\n 'If you have time for only one mystery, one Western, and one SF this year, this will ding all three targets' — Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\n 'Goldberg's plots are always first-rate, but this one is especially suspenseful and surprising' — Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\n 'A remarkably unconventional crime novel that is warm, thrilling, and fun to read' — Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\n 'A cleverly complex plot wreathed in Goldberg's brilliant humour makes this a rocket-paced story' — Historical Novels Review (Editors' Choice)\u003cbr\u003e\n 'A double-barrelled blast, melding the tense, edge-of-your-seat contemporary police procedural with a gritty 1880s Wild West tale' — The Roundup\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":51123080134903,"sku":"YSL14806","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/4254\/8727\/files\/ebook_14806_7f82ece256.jpg?v=1788752464","url":"https:\/\/kidobook.store\/products\/calico-one-of-the-most-gripping-and-twistiest-thrillers-youll-read-this-year","provider":"KidoBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}