CARTER & LOVECRAFT

The start of a thrilling supernatural mystery series that brings the H. P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century optioned by Warner Bros TV.Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective but his last case—the hunt for a serial killer—went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he''s a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness however has not finished with him. First he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he''s never heard of along with an indignant bookseller who doesn''t want a new boss. She''s Emily Lovecraft the last known descendant of H. P. Lovecraft the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man. Then people start dying in impossible ways and while Carter doesn''t want to be involved he''s beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. As he reluctantly investigates he discovers that Lovecraft''s tales were more than just fiction and he must accept another unexpected and far more unwanted inheritance.In the cosmic darkness between Sam Spade and Dirk Gently there''s a nest of tentacles. On that nest of tentacles is Jonathan L. Howard''s Carter and Lovecraft. You are here. It doesn''t get any more weird-boiled than this. —Stephen Graham Jones New York Times–bestselling authorA Pandora''s Box loaded with all of the wonderfully twisted stuff I love including a two-fisted homicide cop turned P.I. warped realities a mysterious bookstore the Cthulhu mythos a dash of romance and creepy fish-men. What''s not to love? —Christopher Golden New York Times–bestselling author