Bram Stoker Award Best Novel Winner
The Throat
by Peter Straub
Summary
Novelist Tim Underhill returns to his Midwestern hometown when a new series of murders echoes a killer he thought long dead, dragging him back into the trauma of the Vietnam War and an old unsolved case. Working alongside his friend Tom Pasmore, he untangles layers of buried violence and family secrets. Straub closes his loosely connected Blue Rose sequence with a dense, literary blend of crime fiction and psychological horror.
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Historical Context & Significance
The Throat completes Straub's Blue Rose Trilogy that began with Koko and Mystery.