It Dies with You, Scott Blackburn
It Dies with You, Scott Blackburn
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It Dies with You

Author: Scott Blackburn

Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2022


Synopsis

For nearly a decade, twenty-nine-year-old Hudson Miller has made his living in the boxing ring, but a post-fight brawl threatens to derail his career. Desperate for money, Hudson takes a gig as a bouncer at a dive bar. That’s when life delivers him another hook to the jaw: his estranged father, Leland, has been murdered in what appears to be a robbery-gone-bad at his salvage yard, Miller’s Pull-a-Part. Soon after his father’s funeral, Hudson learns he’s inherited the salvage yard, and he returns to his Bible-belt hometown of Flint Creek, North Carolina, to run the business. But the business is far more than junk cars and scrap metal. It was the site of an illegal gun-running ring. And the secrets don’t end there: a grisly discovery is made at the yard that thrusts Hudson into the fight of his life. Reeling for answers, Hudson joins forces with his father’s former employee, 71-year-old, beer-guzzling Vietnam vet Charlie Shoaf, and a feisty teenage girl, Lucy Reyes, who’s fiercely seeking justice for her own family tragedy. With a murderer on the loose and no answers from the local cops, the trio of outcasts launch an investigation. The shocking truth they uncover will shake Flint Creek to its very core.

About Scott Blackburn

Scott Blackburn is the author of It Dies with You. An English instructor and a 2017 graduate of the Mountainview MFA program, he also enjoys training in combat sports such as boxing, Muay Thai, and Ju-jitsu, in which he holds a black belt. He lives with his wife and two children in High Point, North Carolina.

About Chris Andrew Ciulla

Chris Andrew Ciulla is a versatile performer who has narrated over four hundred audiobooks in genres including science fiction, fantasy, thrillers, and romance. The recipient of five Earphones Awards, he has won a SOVAS, an Odyssey, and an Audie. He particularly excels at narrating sports-related nonfiction due to being a former sports radio host and a recurring sports-show guest. In addition to narrating audiobooks, he does frequent film, television, video-game, and commercial work.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on April 23, 2023

So many contemporary novels in the crine/thriller genre are so stuffed with character surprises and plot twists that you can practically feel them quiver in your hands with the author’s anxiety that if they don’t throw cliffhangers and shockers at you on practically every page, the reader will wande......more

Goodreads review by Craig on July 14, 2022

North Carolina author Scott Blackburn pulls rather a nifty feint with his gritty, character-centric rural noir tale IT DIES WITH YOU: although his bio says he’s a first-time novelist, if you didn’t know that you’d swear by the quality and little joys of this tale and you were in the hands of someone......more

Goodreads review by Mark on July 21, 2022

IT DIES WITH YOU is a potboiler of a crime novel with a steady pace and surprising twists and turns. Scott Blackburn is a strategic craftsman who jabs and jabs until you’re setup for the knockout blow. He’s a talent to keep an eye on. There are big things ahead for him.......more

Goodreads review by Kim on September 29, 2021

It Dies With You by: Scott Blackburn Pub. date: June 7, 2022 Review date: September 29, 2021 Many thanks to Crooked Lane Books & to NetGalley for allowing me access to this arc in exchange for my honest opinion. It Dies With You is one of those rare books that kept my undivided attention from the moment......more

Goodreads review by J.H. on October 22, 2022

Wonderful debut here from Blackburn. Loved the small town setting and Elmore Leonard type crime vibe, but even better was the cast of well drawn characters.......more