![]() There’s also a protracted chase scene toward the end of the book that shouldn’t work, but does, such is the reader’s investment in the book’s characters and its macabre goings-on. ![]() ![]() So well-crafted is the narrative, that I actually startled once. Jones’ latest is a gripping, thrilling work of suspense and horror, which builds dread at an agonizingly slow pace, only to have that growing dread abruptly terminated via sudden violence. An extremely effective mix of supernatural tropes and themes that should be familiar to readers of Graham Masterton’s The Manitou, and Peter Straub’s Ghost Story, The Only Good Indians tells the story of a group of contemporary Native American friends who commit a crime against nature and are made to pay under horrific and tragic circumstances, some ten years later. ![]()
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