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2000 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel
2000 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee)
The LICKING VALLEY COON HUNTERS CLUB is a science-fiction, action-adventure, mystery-P.I.-suspense, humorous horror novel. Yep, it really is. You have to read it to believe it.
Those of you who haven't read any of Hopkins' Zolotow tales, you have quite a treat in store. Those of you who are familiar with this intrepid P.I. won't be disappointed -- this is perhaps the best one to date.
Genre: Horror
Those of you who haven't read any of Hopkins' Zolotow tales, you have quite a treat in store. Those of you who are familiar with this intrepid P.I. won't be disappointed -- this is perhaps the best one to date.
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"...fasten your seat-belts and join Martin Zolotow, memory-impaired PI, for a visit to the Panhandle." - Lynn Abbey
"Imagine a parallel universe wherein Davis Grubb and Andrew Vaches had written a chase film for Sam Peckinpah, and you may have some idea of the surprising scope and depth of this short but damned impressive novel; suspenseful, violent, lean, poetic, and even thoughtful, The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club is a return to what originally made the thriller great, before brutality and shock were mistaken for action and suspense..." - Gary A Braunbeck
"This one's a fictive breeder's field day. Forget Luther Burbank. Imagine Joe R. Lansdale's city cuz crossbred with one of Andrew Vacchs' surlier rural relatives, but with a whole lot of genetic material from the real author, Brian Hopkins. Now there's an experiment in literary biotechnology. Oh, yeah, and the vampires are just lagniappe." - Edward Bryant
"This is a very entertaining book. It has everything a P.I. book should... a hard-boiled but chivalrous P.I., lovely ladies in distress, quirky villains who repeatedly beat the hero to a pulp, and a plot that cracks along at the speed of a bullet. PLUS vampires and a science-fiction twist. Who could ask for anything more?" - Lee Killough
"...Zolotow and his cross-wired brain are the perfect answer to a craving for suspense and mystery." - David Niall Wilson
"Imagine a parallel universe wherein Davis Grubb and Andrew Vaches had written a chase film for Sam Peckinpah, and you may have some idea of the surprising scope and depth of this short but damned impressive novel; suspenseful, violent, lean, poetic, and even thoughtful, The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club is a return to what originally made the thriller great, before brutality and shock were mistaken for action and suspense..." - Gary A Braunbeck
"This one's a fictive breeder's field day. Forget Luther Burbank. Imagine Joe R. Lansdale's city cuz crossbred with one of Andrew Vacchs' surlier rural relatives, but with a whole lot of genetic material from the real author, Brian Hopkins. Now there's an experiment in literary biotechnology. Oh, yeah, and the vampires are just lagniappe." - Edward Bryant
"This is a very entertaining book. It has everything a P.I. book should... a hard-boiled but chivalrous P.I., lovely ladies in distress, quirky villains who repeatedly beat the hero to a pulp, and a plot that cracks along at the speed of a bullet. PLUS vampires and a science-fiction twist. Who could ask for anything more?" - Lee Killough
"...Zolotow and his cross-wired brain are the perfect answer to a craving for suspense and mystery." - David Niall Wilson
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