Punishment, Scott J. Holliday
Punishment, Scott J. Holliday
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Punishment
A Thriller

Author: Scott J. Holliday

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 5 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/01/2018

Synopsis

Do you want to know what it’s like to die, to kill, to really fear for your life? Then get hooked…Detroit-based homicide detective John Barnes has seen it all—literally. Thanks to a technologically advanced machine, detectives have access to the memories of the living, the dying, and the recently dead. But extracting victims’ experiences firsthand and personally reliving everything up to the final, brutal moments of their lives—the sights, the sounds, the scents, the pain—is also the punishment reserved for the criminals themselves.Barnes has had enough. Enough of the memories that aren’t his. Enough of the horror. Enough of the voices inside his head that were never meant to take root…until a masked serial killer known as Calavera strikes a little too close to home.Now, with Calavera on the loose, Barnes is ready to reconnect, risking his life—and his sanity. Because in the mind of this serial killer, there is one secret even Barnes has yet to see…

About Scott J. Holliday

Scott J. Holliday was born and raised in Detroit. In addition to a lifelong love of books and reading, he’s pursued a range of curiosities and interests, including glassblowing, boxing, and much more. His two previous novels are Stonefly and Normal, the latter of which earned him recognition in INKUBATE.com’s Literary Blockbuster Challenge. He loves to cook and create stories for his wife and two daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josh

Punishment introduces a cool concept into the dark world of crime fiction; a machine which enables law enforcement to temporarily transpose the dying memories of murder victims into their own corpus of memories. The criminals in the fictional (future?) world have acclimatized to this new wave of pol......more

Goodreads review by Dee

Author Scott J. Holliday’s “Punishment” has a lot going for it. It contains a great plot idea wrapped in a mystery/thriller story, nicely helped by talented writing. There are a few elements that bothered me about the book, but none that would cause me to encourage others to leave it on the shelf. Th......more

Goodreads review by Tara

It was an interesting story, but it lacked character depth and was a bit short on reason in some places. We've got our damaged, self-hating, weary detective (very unoriginal) who hooks himself into a machine where he relives his homicide victims' deaths to solve the crime. While we do learn about wh......more

Goodreads review by Gavin

This was a contemporary crime story with a sci-fi twist. It was a detective mystery and a dark psychological thriller that even included a tiny hint of romance. The tone of the story was fairly dark but there was enough hints of hope that it kept things from getting too bleak. A masked serial killer......more

Quotes

“[An] intriguing series launch from Holliday. Readers... will be rewarded.” —Publishers Weekly
A Liz and Lisa Best Book of the Month

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