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The First Cuts Are the Deepest
The town of Port Moss in Mississippi prides itself on being a small, sleepy place where not much ever happens, but when the bodies of murder victims begin to pile up over a long, hot summer, locals must reckon with an evil that crept across their township lines a very long time ago.
219 pages, Paperback
Published January 12, 2019
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About the author
Nick Wilgus
21 books202 followersI sold my first short story to The Horror Show Magazine at the age of seventeen and I've been writing ever since. An award-winning movie was based on my first novel, MINDFULNESS AND MURDER, and I was also nominated for a Lambda Award.
A former newspaper editor and author of more than a dozen novels and two screenplays, I currently live in Tupelo, Mississippi right down the street from the house where Elvis grew up..
A former newspaper editor and author of more than a dozen novels and two screenplays, I currently live in Tupelo, Mississippi right down the street from the house where Elvis grew up..
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March 27, 2019
Dark? Mercy, yes. This is not a story for the faint of heart. But if you can manage it, you'll find a heart-breaking story about the ways that the sins of the past can come home to roost in the relative innocence of the present. Horrible harm was done to a person during their childhood, and after a non-too-pleasant growing up, the harmed decides to make the ones who harmed pay. And pay big.
I enjoyed this book, but I had to take a moment and re-orient myself early on to the kind of horrors I was beginning to run into. I can read horror and enjoy it (I love Thomas Harris's first books), but I have to be in the right frame of mind. When I started "First Cuts" I was not in the proper mindframe, so I had to back up and recalibrate my expectations. That done, I admit that I devoured the book. You can tell by the evidence that I finished it in two days.
Like the worst tragedies, it's hard to look away from.
Bravo to Nick for writing this story: The writing, itself, had to hurt. But you turned out a top-notch horror.
P.S. It's also at least a hard R. Don't put it on the children's library shelves. :D
I enjoyed this book, but I had to take a moment and re-orient myself early on to the kind of horrors I was beginning to run into. I can read horror and enjoy it (I love Thomas Harris's first books), but I have to be in the right frame of mind. When I started "First Cuts" I was not in the proper mindframe, so I had to back up and recalibrate my expectations. That done, I admit that I devoured the book. You can tell by the evidence that I finished it in two days.
Like the worst tragedies, it's hard to look away from.
Bravo to Nick for writing this story: The writing, itself, had to hurt. But you turned out a top-notch horror.
P.S. It's also at least a hard R. Don't put it on the children's library shelves. :D
January 22, 2019
Wilderness of a broken soul
A story of visceral torment and terror inflicted on old and young to repay a sin so vile as to warrant murder. I hurt for the victims as well as for the villain. I did not sleep well for nights. The book is finished, but the tale lingers on.
A story of visceral torment and terror inflicted on old and young to repay a sin so vile as to warrant murder. I hurt for the victims as well as for the villain. I did not sleep well for nights. The book is finished, but the tale lingers on.
February 3, 2019
Interesting murder mystery
I like that you don't have to wait until the end to know who did it. You get to know what's going on in the murderers mind, as well as everyone else. Keeps your attention.
I like that you don't have to wait until the end to know who did it. You get to know what's going on in the murderers mind, as well as everyone else. Keeps your attention.
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