A blood-drenched and profane book that follows a bunch of twisted people (all except for one character) down some dark byways. It's more of a thriller than an urban fantasy story, given that it only has that one key characterization relating to the paranormal. The flashback scenes in between the main action chapters were not much of a relief, either, and not just because of the way they end up badly. There is a raw kind of energy that gets expressed in grotesquery which readers just a little more squeamish than me might have a hard time getting through. Most readers should be able to tell whether this is the book for them in the first dozen pages.

I've been to Barnegat Light and I'm not really buying the idea that someone could fall from the top to the bottom of the staircase and survive. But that's not a major point.