Jenny Milchman. (2018). Wicked River: A Novel. Sourcebooks.

Jenny Milchman. 2018. Wicked River: A Novel. Sourcebooks.

Jenny Milchman, Wicked River: A Novel. Sourcebooks, 2018.

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     Jenny Milchman is the USA Today bestselling Mary Higgins Clark award winning author of five psychological thrillers, including Wicked River and The Second Mother. All of Jenny's novels have been chosen for the Indie Next List, and her work has been praised by the New York Times, the AP, the San Francisco Review of Books, along with inclusion on Strand Magazine's Best of 2018 and Suspense Magazine's Best of 2014, plus numerous other picks and mentions. Jenny served four years as vice president of author programs for International Thriller Writers and is a member of the Sisters in Crime speakers bureau. She gives talks and workshops all over the country on the importance of sticking to a dream, and is the founder of Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day, which is celebrated in all fifty states and on five continents. Find her on social media and at her website http://jennymilchman.com

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Featured in HelloSunshine.com's Father's Day Book Gift Guide

"Wicked River is partly a who-is-my-husband-really story, partly a horror-in-the-wilderness story, and partly a Manhattan-family drama, all rolled up in elegantly propulsive prose, and shot through with sinister suspense."?LEE CHILD, New York Times bestselling author

Newlyweds Nat and Doug expected a romantic adventure when they decided on a canoe trip for their honeymoon, but they're not alone in the woods.

Six million acres of Adirondack forest separate Natalie and Doug Larson from civilization. For the newlyweds, an isolated canoeing honeymoon seems ideal—a chance to start their lives together with an adventure. But just as Natalie and Doug begin to explore the dark interiors of their own hearts, and the deceit that has led to their love, it becomes clear that they are not alone in the woods.

Six million acres makes it easy for the wicked to hide. And even easier for someone to go missing for good.

As they struggle with the worst the wilderness has to offer, a man watches them, wielding the forest like a weapon to get exactly what he wants. And once they are near his domain, he will do everything in his power to make sure that they never escape the of terror in the woods.

Wicked River is a slow-burn psychological thriller—a book full of sinister secrets, deceit, and terror—a chilling addition to the genre.

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   • source: Jeff Ayrs, The Associated Press
   • content: "Milchman has crafted a truly engrossing novel where the river is not the only thing that's wicked."
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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "riveting....A hybrid between John Fowles's classic The Collector and Erica Ferencik's The River at Night, this novel will appeal to fans of psychological suspense as well as those who enjoy trips to the backcountry."
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   • source: John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of the Dismas Hardy series
   • content: "Suspense oozes like blood from a wound on every page of Jenny Milchman's Wicked River. As scary and tense a book as I've read this year."
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   • source: David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of First Blood
   • content: "From time to time, I come across an action manuscript that shares my high regard for the [action] genre and the intensity it can achieve. One such book is Jenny Milchman's Wicked River, which I urge you to experience. It thoroughly gripped me, not only because of the excitement it creates and the inventiveness with which it does so, but also because of the subtext about a honeymoon in which the various stages of a marriage are condensed in a wilderness that's both physical and psychological. Wicked River is a wild ride."
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   • source: MJ Rose, New York Times bestselling author
   • content: "Jenny Milchman's characters jump off the page...Wicked River is compulsive reading - I kept holding my breath and turning the pages faster and faster. It's a book that should cement Jenny's place as a must read thriller writer for fans hungry for domestic suspense in the style of Gillian Flynn."
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   • source: Gayle Lynds, bestselling author of Masquerade and The Book of Spies
   • content: "Chock full of suspense and danger, Wicked River by Jenny Milchman takes you on the journey of a lifetime, canoeing fast-moving rivers and hiking through tangled forests where humans have seldom trod. This is the story of Natalie and Doug's honeymoon; they wanted natural beauty and adventure. They get both, in abundance. You'll be glad you joined them. Wicked River is wicked thrilling!"
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   • source: Andrew Gross, international bestselling author of The Blue Zone and The Dark Tide
   • content: "Deliverance, meet Into the Wild. Jenny Milchman knows how to construct a tautly wound, raw-boned thriller that will keep you up like the howl of wolves outside your tent."
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   • source: Carla Buckley, internationally bestselling author of The Good Goodbye
   • content: "A story about passion and betrayal on the high stakes stage, Wicked River is intensely gripping and perfectly paced-a real standout that pushes the domestic thriller category to its very edge. With her usual mastery of setting and character, Jenny Milchman has outdone herself."
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   • source: Providence Journal
   • content: "Harrowing and hellacious...one of those rare books so exquisitely etched that you can actually skip the coming movie and lose yourself in the pages.
     
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      January 1, 2018
      

      There is so much foreboding built into the first half of Milchman's (Cover of Snow) latest thriller that it is almost a relief when the inevitable disaster happens. Even at the very start of their lives together as newlyweds, a shadow is cast over the happiness of Doug and Natalie by the arrival of some shady characters and the odd behavior of Doug's best men. When the honeymoon (a remote Adirondack canoe trip) turns into a survival exercise, it does not come as a surprise. Milchman alternates the narrative points of view from the couple's perspective and that of Natalie's teenage niece, who idolizes her aunt, and that of a survivalist recluse who hungers for human companionship. After the newlyweds eventually meet up with the hermit, what happens next is not unexpected. It is a testament to Milchman's strong writing that the suspense is nonetheless riveting. VERDICT A hybrid between John Fowles's classic The Collector and Erica Ferencik's The River at Night, this novel will appeal to fans of psychological suspense as well as those who enjoy trips to the backcountry. [See Prepub Alert, 11/21/17.]--Sharon Mensing, Dubois, WY

      Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      March 1, 2018
      A newlywed couple sets out on an Adirondack canoeing holiday only to discover that the most dangerous thing in the forest is their fellow man.After a quick wedding in upstate New York--where it's obvious that neither the bride nor the groom has many friends--Manhattanites Natalie and Doug Larson strap the canoe to the car and drive off to where they'll leave (most of) civilization behind and bask in the July beauty of the Adirondacks. Milchman (As Night Falls, 2015, etc.) abandons both the suspense narrative and camping principles of "leave no trace" as she and her creations beat a heavy, obvious path through the story, leaving little to the imagination. As Natalie and Doug are floating along blissfully, Kurt, a man who's survived in the woods through nefarious means (any reader will immediately guess what those are), is stalking his human prey. New marriages in thrillers don't often end well, and the Larson union is no exception: It comes to light, in the form of a corpse, that Doug isn't as squeaky clean as he appears, and trust is lost when the pair needs it the most. When Kurt rushes in to save them (read: ensnare them in his survivalist twisted game), none of his machinations take anyone, save the Larsons, by surprise. Kurt's backstory, involving near-sadistic psychiatrist parents, is as convincing as Natalie and Doug's love for each other, which is wobbly from the first paddle stroke.Despite a picturesque setting replete with natural risks, this story is stuffed with unnecessary human drama.

      COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      March 12, 2018
      Near the start of this so-so standalone from Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Milchman (As Night Falls), Doug and Natalie Larson embark on their honeymoon, a canoe trip through the Adirondacks’ six million acres of wilderness. Everything goes swimmingly until Doug loses his GPS unit, causing the couple to lose not only their way but also their supplies. When Doug and Natalie fail to return
      to New York City the following week, Natalie’s 13-year-old niece, Mia, sounds the alarm, but what she and the search party don’t know is that a lonely psychopath has already found the Larsons and has his own plans for them. The man-versus-nature aspect of Milchman’s tale thrills, but her characters lack verisimilitude. After a strong start, unearned twists propel the plot toward an abrupt and somewhat arbitrary conclusion that’s action-packed but fails to gratify. Fans will hope for a return to form next time. Agent: Julia Kenny, Dunow, Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency.

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      March 15, 2018
      A kayaking trip into the Adirondacks' remotest corners isn't Natalie's honeymoon fantasy, but she's persuaded by fianc� Doug's vision of idyllic time together in nature. Their first days on the trail follow Doug's scenario pretty closely until he loses their GPS in a hairy section of rapids. Uncomfortable navigating the dense terrain without the GPS, they decide to attempt hiking to a way station. Natalie's fears about the dangers of the wilderness quickly become reality when Doug stumbles into a murder scene and they are forced to flee further into the forest to escape the gunman. Injured and dehydrated, Natalie and Doug struggle to find help, never suspecting that a second predator who has made the forest his own is effortlessly guiding them into his trap. Milchman's fourth Adirondack-centered thriller is a tense exploration of survival and psychological manipulation with a raw, sharply drawn setting sure to please fans of wilderness thrillers like those by Nevada Barr and C. J. Box.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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Featured in HelloSunshine.com's Father's Day Book Gift Guide

"Wicked River is partly a who-is-my-husband-really story, partly a horror-in-the-wilderness story, and partly a Manhattan-family drama, all rolled up in elegantly propulsive prose, and shot through with sinister suspense."?LEE CHILD, New York Times bestselling author

Newlyweds Nat and Doug expected a romantic adventure when they decided on a canoe trip for their honeymoon, but they're not alone in the woods.

Six million acres of Adirondack forest separate Natalie and Doug Larson from civilization. For the newlyweds, an isolated canoeing honeymoon seems ideal—a chance to start their lives together with an adventure. But just as Natalie and Doug begin to explore the dark interiors of their own hearts, and the deceit that has led to their love, it becomes clear that they are not alone in the woods.

Six million acres makes it easy for the wicked to...

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