Myrtle Beach edition by Luther Knight Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Slouching alone in his chair, Chief Master Sergeant Lucas Mackley sits in the United States Veterans Retirement Facility and reflects on the traumatic events of his early career in the Armed Forces. After moving from base to base, he became targeted as a killer in a series of brutal and seemingly related murders that followed him and his two closest friends.
The only way to escape the police is to unveil the true killer… someone who may be nearer to Lucas than he ever imagined.
Myrtle Beach edition by Luther Knight Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Anyone who has ever enjoyed the incredible coastline in and around Myrtle Beach, SC, will adore Myrtle Beach by Luther Knight. Author Knight obviously knows this small section of the country well--not only does he perfectly describe the panorama and oppressive humidity of the area, he captures dead-on the unique dialect and cadence of Low Country locals.As much as Knight knows his stuff concerning all things Low Country, he is obviously even more familiar with life in the United States Air Force. Myrtle Beach's main character is Lucas Mackley, who enlisted in the Air Force on January 19, 1950, at the young age of 19. When Mackley enlisted, he may have expected to be deployed to Korea but he certainly did not anticipate that he would soon be the main suspect in a string of grisly murders that seem to be following him!
That the reader is afforded a front-row seat to these murders is not particularly unique in a novel of this type but what is unique is how Knight fleshes out these characters so completely that by the time they are killed you may wonder how their loved ones would have reacted. (Definitely not my standard response when reading a thriller!) In fact, my favorite thing about Myrtle Beach is that Knight took obvious time and attention to detailing the lives of every single one of his characters, including those that get but one page of attention. I feel like I know the secondary characters including Staff Sergeant Wilburt Webber, a cruel commander, Mattie Lou Simpson, who is pushing 40 and reeks of booze and cigarettes as even as she seeks comfort in the arms of strange men, Mert and Leona, two of the ugliest barmaids you'll ever meet, and Roscoe and Sarah Mooreland, both flawed people in differing ways but made for each other.
We are with young Mackley with his drunken comrades in a local bar, where you can almost hear the slurred speech and smell the liquor-soaked carpet. We feel his unease as he realizes the string of murders is following him and he suspects that the killer may be someone close to him. We feel his heart racing as he is accused of the murders and has to run from the MPs and South Carolina State Troopers even as they are on his tail by no more than one car length. The sweat on his back as he realizes he is being pursued by police hounds:
"Lucas stumbled from the woods into the partially water-filled ditch along Highway 17 and paused, orienting himself. Crossing the road, he raced along a small field to the west, his legs protesting each crucial stride. With terror surging through his body, he sprinted toward the waterway, a marathoner at the finish line...[L]ooking over his shoulder, he saw the dogs loping across the road, their bodies silhouetted by the headlights of an approaching automobile and their shadows exaggerated in the glaring lights."
Will Mackley escape successfully? Will the real killer be found? Knight takes his readers on a journey of not just a fugitive but takes us to a simpler time and place. If you are at all interested in the Low Country, the military, or just great characters in a great mystery, Myrtle Beach by Luther Knight is a must read for you!
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Myrtle Beach edition by Luther Knight Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
As a long time friend and professional colleague of Knight and as a fan of the mystery genre, I have watched with interest as he has morphed from writing technical biological treatises to writing about murder. While I enjoyed and recommend his earlier works, Myrtle Beach is his best so far. As a former member of the USAF, having served during the early 1950s, I find his characters and their actions believable and well developed. The rebellious 16-17 year old teenage girls do seem drawn to the slightly older, but no more mature, males in uniform, and this is a formula for trouble. Knight keeps you guessing and will no doubt surprise you when the psychopathic killer is finally revealed in the rather sad ending. A good read!
I received this book as a Christmas gift. Once again, I delayed reading until April. I am sorry that I waited. I loved that although it was set in a simpler time, the problems the characters ran into are exactly like problems of today. People who live in a big city will probably be amazed at some of the scene descriptions and way of life of the characters. I especially liked the chase scene. No one runs from Johnny Law quite like a southern boy!
Anyone who has ever enjoyed the incredible coastline in and around Myrtle Beach, SC, will adore Myrtle Beach by Luther Knight. Author Knight obviously knows this small section of the country well--not only does he perfectly describe the panorama and oppressive humidity of the area, he captures dead-on the unique dialect and cadence of Low Country locals.
As much as Knight knows his stuff concerning all things Low Country, he is obviously even more familiar with life in the United States Air Force. Myrtle Beach's main character is Lucas Mackley, who enlisted in the Air Force on January 19, 1950, at the young age of 19. When Mackley enlisted, he may have expected to be deployed to Korea but he certainly did not anticipate that he would soon be the main suspect in a string of grisly murders that seem to be following him!
That the reader is afforded a front-row seat to these murders is not particularly unique in a novel of this type but what is unique is how Knight fleshes out these characters so completely that by the time they are killed you may wonder how their loved ones would have reacted. (Definitely not my standard response when reading a thriller!) In fact, my favorite thing about Myrtle Beach is that Knight took obvious time and attention to detailing the lives of every single one of his characters, including those that get but one page of attention. I feel like I know the secondary characters including Staff Sergeant Wilburt Webber, a cruel commander, Mattie Lou Simpson, who is pushing 40 and reeks of booze and cigarettes as even as she seeks comfort in the arms of strange men, Mert and Leona, two of the ugliest barmaids you'll ever meet, and Roscoe and Sarah Mooreland, both flawed people in differing ways but made for each other.
We are with young Mackley with his drunken comrades in a local bar, where you can almost hear the slurred speech and smell the liquor-soaked carpet. We feel his unease as he realizes the string of murders is following him and he suspects that the killer may be someone close to him. We feel his heart racing as he is accused of the murders and has to run from the MPs and South Carolina State Troopers even as they are on his tail by no more than one car length. The sweat on his back as he realizes he is being pursued by police hounds
"Lucas stumbled from the woods into the partially water-filled ditch along Highway 17 and paused, orienting himself. Crossing the road, he raced along a small field to the west, his legs protesting each crucial stride. With terror surging through his body, he sprinted toward the waterway, a marathoner at the finish line...[L]ooking over his shoulder, he saw the dogs loping across the road, their bodies silhouetted by the headlights of an approaching automobile and their shadows exaggerated in the glaring lights."
Will Mackley escape successfully? Will the real killer be found? Knight takes his readers on a journey of not just a fugitive but takes us to a simpler time and place. If you are at all interested in the Low Country, the military, or just great characters in a great mystery, Myrtle Beach by Luther Knight is a must read for you!
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