Persons Non Grata: Hammers on Bone (Series #1) (Paperback)

from Damiella

I originally bought this book as a present for my 15 year old niece. On reading, I'm thinking my sister would hunt me down if I gifted it. I loved it but it's a bit too much for her. (not to mention I don't believe she's read any Lovecraft which definitely sets the tone)

from PardaMustang

**This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review** What do you get if you toss hard-boiled detective fiction, and lore of the Great Old Ones into a blender? The answer is Cassandra Khaw's Lovecraftian noir Hammers on Bone. When John Persons is approached by a kid who wants to hire him to ki...

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This is what you get when you merge Chandler and Lovecraft and add a contemporary edge. PI John Persons is hired by a ten-year old client to kill the child's abusive stepdad, McKinsey. Persons speaks and acts like the protagonist of a hardboiled detective novel and Khan does a get job of evoking ...

from ElleGato

THIS BOOKTHIS BOOKI sometimes have trouble articulating what about the Lovecraftian aesthetic I so enjoy because my hatred for H.P. Lovecraft is unmatched. Stephen King gets close sometimes, to broaching cosmic horror in the right way, to making up for the lack of humanism in Lovecraft's universe...