Review: Lanyon is the master of description
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2014
Full review posted on the Smoocher's Voice blogGriffin Hadley’s favorite novel is The Great Gatsby. Like the narrator in that novel, Nick Carraway, Hadley is a native of the Midwest, who is intrigued with New York and its wealthy residents. Hadley, a crime reporter and aspiring book writer, is a realist and a bit of a romantic.Hadley is not just writing a book about the decades old mystery of what happened to four-year-old Brian Arlington, he is seeking truth. For some reason, Hadley is drawn to Brian’s story, the Arlington family and the mystery that surrounds the family and crime.Josh Lanyon is a master of description and unravels a mysterious plot with descriptive panache. With the use of foreshadowing and imagery, Lanyon sets the stage for this story in an eerie fashion.Lanyon has the uncanny ability to draw readers into a story by embedding the reader in the fictional worlds Lanyon creates, and Lanyon has done that again with Stranger on the Shore. Through the use of in-depth description and realistic dialogue, Lanyon develops these intriguing characters and plot. The hook for Stranger on the Shore happens in the first few paragraphs of the story as Hadley is introduced.