Whitetooth Falls
Winner of a Gold Medal in Horror Fiction from the Independent Book Publisher’s Association 2020 Ben Franklin Awards!
“With his stunning debut Whitetooth Falls, Justin Joschko explodes on the horror scene with a chilling tale of genuine horror! Highly recommended!”
Homicide detective David Moore has never had a case quite like this: a series of savage murders targeting the family of Frank Ballaro, a mafia kingpin with half the city of Niagara Falls in his pocket. The killer strikes with inhuman violence, and always on the night of a full moon.
Meanwhile, grad student Iman Al-Qadari reads about the murders with growing dismay. Her boss, a prominent professor, has been acting strange over the last few months—wearing disheveled clothes, lashing out with uncharacteristic anger, and obsessing over a growing pile of occult literature. When Iman spots a red stain on his coat sleeve—one that looks and smells suspiciously like blood—the night after a grisly murder, the unthinkable starts to seem all too possible.
As David and Iman wrestle with an impossible enemy whose existence grows harder and harder to deny, a strange and sinister evil sinks its fangs ever deeper into Niagara’s throat. Can David and Iman find one another in time to pool their knowledge and stop the killings? Or will the creature feasting on their city swallow them as well?
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Praise for Whitetooth Falls
“Packed with grit, twists, and murder [...] Joschko’s complex storytelling will keep readers hooked until the final bloody scene”
“Joschko’s prose is lyrical, but with bite. This book is gritty enough to wear your teeth down, with a full dose of noir and a fresh take on classic horror. I loved it.”
“Equal parts horror, mafia drama and hardboiled procedural and delivering on the promises of each, Whitetooth Falls is a werewolf story with teeth”
“Joschko has created a diverse cast of multi-dimensional characters. A richly imagined, well-researched take on the traditional werewolf story”
“A picture-perfect suspense thriller of a novel [...] the kind of narrative driven storytelling that keeps the reader’s rapt attention from a riveting beginning to cliff-hanger end”
