The Demonologist (34 page)

—Lisa Gardner

“A splendidly eerie haunted house story, and a superb evocation of small town life.
The Guardians
gripped me from its opening line and never let go.”

—John Connolly, author of
Every Dead Thing
and
The Lovers

Praise for
The Killing Circle

“If Andrew Pyper scripted our collective nightmares, we’d all be dreaming and screaming like the narrator of his gorgeously written and thoroughly unnerving suspense thriller,
The Killing Circle.
 . . . Taken as either a classy ghost story or the chronicle of one man’s mental breakdown, this is a terrific yarn. But in examining the universal need to define one’s self through narrative, it also explores the darker side of storytelling.”

—
The New York Times Book Review

“Extraordinary . . . Powered by an ingeniously nonlinear narrative and suffused with a tone thick with dread, this is easily Pyper’s most ambitious—and absorbing—work to date.”

—
Publishers Weekly
(starred review)

“Pyper is a true prose-master . . . caustic and sharp-witted observations. An uncozy, fright-filled thriller.”

—
The Globe and Mail
(editor’s recommendation)

“The villain leaps off the page . . . Pyper does an impressive job building suspense, offering enough narrative twists and turns to keep the reader nicely off balance. Basing the experience of the novel in Rush’s first-person perspective, he is able to capture not only the depths of the haunting and gradually mounting terror, but also the more routine aspects of the character’s life. . . . A strong and compelling read.”

—
The Vancouver Sun

“A deliciously vicious thriller.”

—
Toronto Life

Praise for
Lost Girls

“Exquisite . . . Pyper’s writing moves fluidly from caustic wit to moments of striking insight and beauty. . . .
Lost Girls
itself inhabits, more than anything, Atwood country (with added passion)—a smart, wry, controlled tone narrating a northwood Gothic. A satisfying, old-style morality tale set in a ripping good—and complex—story brimming over with 90’s style pockmarked souls and bruised psyches.”

—
The Globe and Mail
(editor’s choice)

“What sets
Lost Girls
apart is its brilliant evocation of place and mood. . . . For readers who relish metaphor with their narrative meat,
Lost Girls
is a rich meal.”

—
Maclean’s

“Exceptional . . . Reads as though it were the secret love child of Alice Munro and Stephen King.”

—
The Montreal Gazette

“Everything about this dark, disquieting story confounds expectations. . . . It’s hard to know exactly what kind of tale Pyper has told, but there’s no doubt that he has told it brilliantly.”

—
The New York Times

“Pyper’s spell-binding debut succeeds on so many levels—as a mystery, a legal thriller, a literary character study—that it’s obvious why it was a #1 bestseller last year in Canada. . . . Compulsively appealing.”

—
Publishers Weekly
(starred review)

“Most memorable . . . is the character of narrator Crane, who undergoes one of the most complete yet credible moral metamorphoses in recent fiction. A debut to remember and a real treat for crime fiction fans.”

—
Booklist
(starred review; selected as Best First Mystery for 2000)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pyper, Andrew.

The demonologist / Andrew Pyper.—1st Simon & Schuster

hardcover ed.

p. cm.

1. College teachers—New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. 2. Adult children of alcoholics—Fiction. 3. Psychic trauma—Fiction. 4. Demonology—Fiction. 5. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PR9199.3.P96D46 2013

813’.54—dc22 2012025715

ISBN 978-1-4516-9741-4

ISBN 978-1-4516-9743-8 (ebook)