DOUBLE EXPOSURE receives rave review

From Jen Forbus (Jen’s Book Thoughts Blog)

Remington James is a successful but unhappy advertising executive when his father dies. He returns to his hometown to run his father's store and care for his mother who is dying of MS. While he is home, he decides to pick up the hobby, the passion, he gave up years ago, wildlife photography. He has set trap cameras in the woods of the Apalachicola River Basin in hopes of maybe catching the elusive Florida panther. As he is out taking pictures and checking his traps one evening, he discovers that he has caught not the panther on his camera, but a murder. And now the murderers are hunting Remington through the pitch black of the Florida woods.

WARNING: I am about to gush over this incredible work of art. My hope is simply that it is a coherent gushing. O.k., you've been fairly warned.

If readers want to read DOUBLE EXPOSURE surfacely and minimally, they are in for a heart-pounding thriller. Lister's written a tight plot that doesn't allow one to slow down for even a second, just like his protagonist.

Lister created a powerful effect by being a minimalist in this novel. His protagonist is a photographer out taking pictures in the woods. Lister's prose mimics that process so you can hear the camera shutter click as you read:

Evening. Glow.
Dark figures.
Shot.
Explosion.
Bloom of blood.
Body dropping to the cold ground.
Death. Digging.
Fire.

And Lister's setting development carries you smack into the middle of Remington's Eden that is horrifically transformed into his Hell all in the course of one night. Remington reminds himself to "Use your senses. All of them." And Lister helps the readers to use their senses, all of them. Whether they are seeing the beauty of the landscape or the nightmare of a murder. Whether they are hearing life:

"Somwhere in the distance, a woodpecker taps out his mating morse code on the resonant bole of a hollow tree, and when a gentle breeze sways the tops of oaks, cypresses, magnolias, and gums, the falling leaves around him sound like the start of a soft rainfall."

Or feeling fear:

"Hairs rise.
Goose bumps.
Quickly. Quietly."

Readers will definitely be in the woods with Remington James on the most terrifying night of his life. But they'll have to listen carefully to hear nature's sounds over the thumping of their own hearts.

If you want to delve deeper, you will find a complex interweaving of theme, plot, character and setting that results in a magical reading experience. Remington is almost a unique character in crime fiction in that he comes from a functional family. His parents loved him and he loved his parents; while Remington doesn't seem conscious of it, the reader quickly learns that both parents taught him skills that made him a great man.

And of course, nature is a prominent theme as well as a symbol in DOUBLE EXPOSURE. The dark of night is essential to build up the suspense, but it plays a role also in the idea that man is destroying nature. So Remington's manic race is not just a race for his life, but a race for nature. Can they both make it out alive?

Brilliant.
Beautiful.
Must-read!
Double Exposure by Michael Lister.

DOUBLE EXPOSURE will be released by Tyrus Books in September. It will be available in hard cover (ISBN 978-0-9825209-2-5) and trade paper (978-0-9825209-3-2). Michael Lister will be donating all profits from DOUBLE EXPOSURE to environmental protection and conservation.

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Michael Connelly recommends DOUBLE EXPOSURE at Seattle Signing

From Jane Davis on Michael Connelly.com

I attended Michael's signing in Seattle last night. When asked what he likes to read he said his favorite crime writer was George Pelecanos. He also said he had just read an advance copy of a book coming out in September. He gave it a rave review and said it was absolutely riveting. The author is Michael Lister and the book is called DOUBLE EXPOSURE. Here's Lister's web site:

http://www.michaellister.com/

New Podcast --- Ben LeRoy interviews Michael Lister about DOUBLE EXPOSURE

There's a new podcast interview about DOUBLE EXPOSURE at http://tyrusbooks.libsyn.com/

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What People are Saying about DOUBLE EXPOSURE

“Double Exposure is absolutely riveting! I sat down, plugged in and didn't get up until the last page. With elegiac prose, insightful characterization and a wonderfully ingenious plot, Michael Lister has squeezed every ounce of terror and thrills out of a dark night in the woods.” Michael Connelly

"A great thrill ride! I remember when David Morrell’s "First Blood" appeared in paperback. On the cover was a statement that went something like: "the publisher envies you the opportunity of reading this book." I felt that way reading this trenchant, racing, instantly involving novel!" Ron Hansen, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

“Michael Lister possesses a poet’s eye, an environmentalist’s intellect, a conservationist’s fire, a North Floridian’s wisdom, and a mystery writer’s talent for intrigue. Double Exposure contains all of this and more. What a fine book!” Connie May Fowler, Before Women had Wings

“For readers and writers, one good word is worth a thousand pictures. And in his engrossing new novel, Double Exposure, Michael Lister has masterfully chosen wonderful words to paint both a humbling picture of a special Florida environment and a story of intrigue and danger.” Jonathon King, author of Acts of Nature


"Michael Lister's Double Exposure is simply stunning. I raced through it, hardly able to breathe. It's riveting --- a remarkable blend of thriller and literary novel. Total surrender is the only way to read this powerful new book that pulls readers deep into the dangerous beauty of North Florida river swamps in a tale of murder and the struggle to survive. Double Exposure cannot be read --- it must be devoured. Lister's accomplishment deserves major recognition." Carolyn Haines, Fever Moon


"As an artist, Michael Lister is not afraid to take a risk. And his gamble pays off big for the reader, in Double Exposure, a great stylistic achievement, cleverly imagined, and cleverly realized on the page. It is jazz on paper. With every rapid click of the camera, Double Exposure delivers a fast paced, can't-put-it-down page-turner. The images framed by Lister's camera, though, also produce an intimate character portrait, giving the story a satisfying depth." Judge Terry Lewis, Conflict of Interest