Don't Fear the Reaper
Don't Fear the ReaperStephen Graham Jones
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Don't Fear the Reaper (2022)

Stephen Graham Jones

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho. Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday. Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over.

ISBN:
9798885783361
Length:
464 pages

Genres: horror, mystery, thriller

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Reviews3

Loved it

I love the author took a different approach to writing this one if he had written it the same way the first one was written I think the story the trilogy would have lost a little bit of its magic it's definitely a level up on the slasher element in this one