Carter & Lovecraft -- Jonathan L. Howard

A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year

Carter & Lovecraft is a Pandora's box loaded with all the wonderfully twisted stuff I love, including a two-fisted homicide cop turned PI, warped realities, a mysterious bookstore, the Cthulhu mythos, a dash of romance, and creepy fish-men. What's not to love? Jonathan L. Howard knows how to show his readers a wickedly good time. --Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author Dead Ringers

Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case--the hunt for a serial killer--went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him.

First he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he's never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn't want a new boss. She's Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H.P. Lovecraft, the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man.

Then people start dying in impossible ways, and while Carter doesn't want to be involved, he's beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. As Carter reluctantly investigates, he discovers that H. P. Lovecraft's tales were more than just fiction, and he must accept another unexpected, and far more unwanted, inheritance.

Author: Jonathan L. Howard
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 10/20/2015
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781250060891

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/10/2015
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2015 pg. 95
Romantic Times 10/01/2015 pg. 46 - Very Good
Booklist 10/01/2015 pg. 36
Library Journal 10/15/2015 pg. 65
Shelf Awareness 11/03/2015
Shelf Awareness 12/11/2015

About the Author
JONATHAN L. HOWARD is a game designer, scriptwriter, and a veteran of the computer-games industry since the early nineties, with titles such as the Broken Sword series to his credit. He is the author of the Johannes Cabal series, as well as the YA novels Katya's World and Katya's War. He lives in the United Kingdom with his wife and daughter.