Lost Things

I've been discovering some great authors lately and John Rector is definitely one of them. I've had him on my radar this year and I decided to start with this tight novella, which did not disappoint! This is a tense, tragic noir thriller about two men whose close friendship is put to the test after......more

Wow - blew me away - what do you do when your best friend is a serial killer that you have helped 'awaken' to his calling? Really chilling read!......more

An engaging page-turner that doesn’t let up until the last few pages. The concept is intriguing and would have benefitted from being a longer book! Reading a novella was a nice change of pace, but I felt myself longing for more depth of plot and characters. The lack of a true ending made the entire......more

An encounter with a drunken would-be-robber leaves lifelong friends Evan and Peter in a state of shock and a world of hurt. The ultimately fatal encounter results in one of the would-be-robbers being killed and the other severely beaten in the name of self-defence. It’s what happens next that turns......more

Lost Things was described as a short story when I bought it, which has now been corrected to 'A Novella (An Original Short Story)'. It's an important distinction in so many respects, not that the quantity matters when a work is this good. It's superb. The opening is straightforward enough. A couple o......more