Wrong Turn: A Jack Nightingale Short Story

Jack Nightingale

by Stephen Leather

Jack Nightingale gets lost in North Carolina and finds himself a reluctant attendee at a serial killer convention. Long dead serial killers are appearing before adoring fans, but it doesn't take them long to realise that Nightingale is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wrong Turn is a fast-paced supernatural story of 14,000 words. Jack Nightingale appears in the full-length novels Nightfall, Midnight, Nightmare, Nightshade, Lastnight, San Francisco Night and New York Night. He also appears in several short stories including Blood Bath, Cursed, Still Bleeding, Tracks, My Name Is Lydia, The Creeper, The Undead, The Asylum and The Mansion. The Jack Nightingale time line is complex, this story is set after Lastnight.

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Fiction

45 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 7, 2017

About the author

Stephen Leather was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series. For much of 2011 his self-published eBooks - including The Bestseller, The Basement, Once Bitten and Dreamer's Cat - dominated the UK eBook bestseller lists and sold more than half a million copies. The Basement topped the Kindle charts in the UK and the US, and in total he has sold more than two million eBooks. His bestselling book The Chinaman was filmed as The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan and grossing more than $100 million.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a 4.5 🌟 short story read rounded ⬆️ to 5 🌟.

[Colin Murtagh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another Jack Nightingale short story. Not so sure about wrong turn, but this one certainly takes a bit of a different turn. It's difficult to say too much without giving the plot entirely away, however Jack accidentally ends up at a hotel in Carolina, and expecting to get turned away as a convention is one, discovers he's expected. Things then take a decidedly dark turn. Interestingly there's less of the magic side of things in this book, it's almost as if Jack is remembering that he used to be a policeman, and acting more like a normal person, than in the last few books. It's a refreshing change, and it works well.

[Sam]

I think that this was my favourite story in the collection. Where most of the other novellas fell in the somewhat predictable category, this one kept me guessing until I finally gave up. A convention of serial killers, dark and disturbing, drenched with the promice of gore, it kept me awake until the early hours.

This was a 3 stars for me. I liked it.

[Mrs A. J. Turbfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

An entertaining w quick read. Very enjoyable and with a n acceptable ending.

As enjo, as s,all the jack Nightingale stories, great if you have the necessary background reading.nice to see the evil.beaten.

[Vincent Yodice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great premise, first time reading this author and Character, will most definitely get others.