Bill Eidson is back with another edge-of-the-seat thriller.
McKenna is a good man mad with grief, who blames himself for the death of his teenage daughter. He’s given up his house and business, bought a boat, and sailed away with his wife Caroline–only to continuously fight with her, sending her away. So he has to take on a new crewman to sail back to Boston, and he picks Tom Cain, who is pure evil. When Cain is about to be caught smuggling diamonds by the Coast Guard, he convinces McKenna to lie to save him . . . for a share. McKenna does, and finds himself bound by chains of murder. First he has to kill the murderous Cain to survive. And then the people Cain cheated come after McKenna. And Caroline. The tension mounts and the body-count grows.
The dark romance of the thriller has never been more potent than in One Bad Thing.
“Bill Eidson plays no verbal tricks: He simply tells a good story, convincingly and, in One Bad Thing, chillingly . . . . Eidson writes a tough, direct prose edged with irony, and he may well be a successor, at last, to the much-missed John D. MacDonald.” —The Boston Globe
“This is the best suspense novel I’ve read in the last two years. Bill Eidson can do the two things all great crime writers can do–scare the hell out of you, and occasionally break your heart.” —Mystery Scene
