Michael Marshall (Smith) is een bestseller auteur en scenarioschrijver wiens werk zich verdiept in complexe ethische dilemma's en de grenzen van menselijke identiteit. Met een originele vertelstijl en scherp psychologisch inzicht in zijn personages, creëert Marshall (Smith) meeslepende verhalen die lezers aanzetten tot nadenken over de donkerdere aspecten van de menselijke natuur. Zijn romans staan bekend om hun intelligente genrebenadering en verkennen vaak de spanning tussen realiteit en bedrog.
Ward Hopkins en Nina Baynam houden zich schuil voor de Stromannen - de sinistere broederschap van seriemoordenaars waar Warss tweelingbroer Paul bij hoorde. Als Nina's FBI-baas haar hulp vraagt bij een intrigerende nieuwe seriemoordzaak, merken Nina en Ward dat ze gevonden kunnen worden. En vernemen ze dat Paul ontsnapt is....
Afzonderlijk te lezen vervolg op De stromannen. Op verschillende plaatsen in de VS worden lijken in groteske houdingen gevonden, staand, zittend etc. Een man die zelfmoord wil plegen doet in de bossen van de staat Washington een bizarre ontdekking, en ex-CIA man Ward Hopkins en ex-politieman John Zandt (al bekend uit het eerste deel) zetten hun zoektocht voort naar de geheimzinnige, onheilspellende Stromannen.
Op een reusachtig ruimteschip tracht een oorlogsveteraan met gevaar voor eigen leven een aantal als orgaandonor gekloonde jonge mensen te redden.
The story unfolds with relentless momentum, immersing readers in a gripping and imaginative narrative. It combines unsettling themes with suspenseful twists, showcasing Michael Marshall Smith's unique storytelling ability. The novel promises to keep readers on the edge of their seats from the very first page, as it explores intriguing concepts and unexpected developments.
How did life begin? Why are we here? These are some of the most profound questions we can ask. For almost a century, a small band of eccentric scientists has struggled to answer these questions and explain one of the greatest mysteries of all: how and why life began on Earth. There are many different proposals, and each idea has attracted passionate believers who promote it with an almost religious fervour, as well as detractors who reject it with equal passion. But the quest to unravel life's genesis is not just a story of big ideas. It is also a compelling human story, rich in personalities, conflicts, and surprising twists and turns. Along the way the journey takes in some of the greatest discoveries in modern biology, from evolution and cells to DNA and life's family tree. It is also a search whose end may finally be in sight. In The Genesis Quest, Michael Marshall shows how the quest to understand life's beginning is also a journey to discover the true nature of life, and by extension our place in the universe
Hap Thompson - ex-barman, ex-hood and ex-husband - has fallen on his feet at last. He's finally found something he can do better than anyone else. And it's legal. Almost. Hap's a REMtemp, working the night hours caretaking people's dreams and memories. One night, he takes on a bigger memory than usual and the client disappears. As Hap pursues her, he comes to realise that something terrible lies at the end of the memory, something which threatens to rewrite not just his life, but the whole of history.
Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by a homicidal maniac. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live.
Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls - we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own...
"Bad Things" offers a pulse-pounding psychological thriller of deception, misfortune, complicity, and guilt from the bestselling author of "The Straw Men" and "The Intruders."
This collection of 27 never-before published stories from an impressive cast—Roddy Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Stuart O'Nan, among others—sets out to shift genre paradigms. The overarching theme is fantastic fiction, or fiction of the imagination, with fantasy being used in the most broad-sweeping sense rather than signaling the familiar commercial staples of elves, ghouls, and robots. Consequently, the collection's offerings run a wide gamut. In Joe Hill's Devil on the Staircase, an Italian boy commits a crime of passion and subsequently meets an emissary of Satan. In Jodi Picoult's Weights and Measures, a young couple who have just lost their daughter struggle to hold their marriage together as they both start noticing strange changes taking place. Chuck Palahniuk's The Loser features a college kid on acid as a contestant on a game show, and in Kurt Andersen's Human Intelligence, a geologist meets an explorer from another planet who has been studying humans for the past 1,600 years. The range of voices and subjects practically guarantees something for any reader, but the overall quality is frustratingly variable: most stories are good, some aren't, and few are exceptional —Publishers Weekly
