{"product_id":"the-storm-reaper","title":"The Storm Reaper","description":"\u003cp\u003eFire Island, hurricane season: a claustrophobic, slow-burn crime thriller about the only police officer who believes a serial killer is using the storms for cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKill during the storm. Let the tide take the body out to sea. The police rule every disappearance a storm-related death. It worked until the currents shifted and the bodies started washing back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Violet Crisp was sixteen, she survived the storm that killed her best friend. The same night, she saw a man murdered in the fog. The chief said she was confused by grief. Her own father said she was making it up. She spent the next ten years building a case nobody wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe's twenty-six now, a police officer on the island she's never left, living on her boat with her cat, Purrmaid, and a corkboard full of dead people. A new chief is finally listening. Another storm is coming. Another body has washed up. And Violet is starting to understand that The Storm Reaper is someone local, someone she may know.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers of \u003cb\u003eLucy Foley\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eRiley Sager\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eTana French\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eRuth Ware\u003c\/b\u003e, and for anyone who loved the tides-and-birds naturalism of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Crawdads Sing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA slow-burn Fire Island crime thriller built on real American folklore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Storm Reaper is Book One of the Violet Crisp series, an atmospheric crime thriller and police procedural set on a barrier island off the south shore of Long Island during hurricane season, told in the wry first-person voice of the woman everyone wrote off. It is built on the Gray Man, a real-life Atlantic-coast ghost folklore about a figure who appears before hurricanes to warn people to leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat readers are saying: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A tense, atmospheric thriller that blends island folklore with the dread of being trapped during a hurricane while a serial killer hides in plain sight.\"\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003cb\u003eSarah, Goodreads Reviewer (5 stars)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"This story sucks you in and holds you hostage until the last word. I couldn't stop reading. Unputdownable!\"\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003cb\u003eBeverly, Goodreads Reviewer (5 stars)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Absolutely gripping plot that I couldn't put down, great characters and twists I didn't see coming. A must read.\"\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMelinda Smith, Goodreads Reviewer (5 stars)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers who devour: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAtmospheric thrillers where the setting is a living, breathing force\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFemale detectives nobody believes, who turn out to be right\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHurricane-season suspense and closed-circle island mysteries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSlow-burn crime fiction with real police procedural and forensic detail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCold cases in small towns where everyone knows everyone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmerican folklore worked into a modern investigation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy readers loved it: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwists readers \"didn't see coming,\" concealed until the last chapter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA flawed protagonist whose voice readers call \"raw, honest, and deep\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFire Island rendered as \"a living, breathing force\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA narrator who reads tides, currents and birds the way other detectives read case files\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook One of an ongoing series (a new release every spring, just in time for your summer reading list)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Kristen Van Nest, author of\u003c\/i\u003e Perfect Modern Wife \u003ci\u003e(currently being adapted for film) and the comedic memoir\u003c\/i\u003e Where to Nest\u003ci\u003e. She is a viral comedian who took her wit dark. She spent every childhood summer on Fire Island, getting sunburnt, chasing minnows, and nearly drowning that one time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":54290740806000,"sku":"9798198613799","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_09f2463f-d7d9-47c1-ac64-ee4566655934.jpg?v=1789071906","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/the-storm-reaper","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}