So Cold the River, Michael Koryta
So Cold the River, Michael Koryta
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So Cold the River

Author: Michael Koryta

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 13 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/09/2010


Synopsis

Now a major motion picture: So Cold the River is a chilling, supernatural tale "guaranteed to put the cold finger down your spine" (Michael Connelly). 

It started with a beautiful woman and a challenge. As a gift for her husband, Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose past is wrapped in mystery. Eric grabs the job even though there are few clues to the man's past -- just the name of his hometown and an antique water bottle he's kept his entire life.

In Bradford's hometown, Eric discovers an extraordinary history -- a glorious domed hotel where movie stars, presidents, athletes, and mobsters once mingled, and hot springs whose miraculous mineral water cured everything from insomnia to malaria. Neglected for years, the resort has been restored to its former grandeur just in time for Eric's stay.

Just hours after his arrival, Eric experiences a frighteningly vivid vision. As the days pass, the frequency and intensity of his hallucinations increase and draw Eric deeper into the town's dark history. He discovers that something besides the hotel has been restored -- a long-forgotten evil that will stop at nothing to regain its lost glory. Brilliantly imagined and terrifyingly real, So Cold the River is a tale of irresistible suspense with a racing, unstoppable current.

Author Bio

Michael Koryta is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger. Visit him online at MichaelKoryta.com.

Reviews

Eric is a once upon a time Los Angeles cinematographer who is currently etching out a living in Chicago, creating videos for weddings, anniversaries, graduations and funerals. Lots and lots of funerals. In fact it is at one of these events that he meets Alyssa Bradford, who makes Eric a very generou......more

I picked this one up at the gift shop at West Baden Springs Hotel in Indiana, the setting and inspiration for the story. I enjoyed learning more historical details about the magnificent old hotel. The story dragged at times in the middle but built towards a very exciting conclusion.......more

Goodreads review by Crystal

Be sure to visit my Favorites Shelf for the books I found most entertaining. I first read Michael Koryta's, So Cold the River back in January of 2013. It was my first experience with the author for whom I'd never even heard of before. I'd read a few reviews and some compared his writing style to the......more

Goodreads review by Jolinda

This book dragged. It started it out with a promising premise but half way through the novel I was fed up with the protagonist's resentful, self-pitying, whiny personality. He felt that he was the victim of powerful men intellectually inferior to him and much less talented and by God, even if it des......more