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Laird Barron (Author), William DeMeritt (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valley, and in his newest case, a seemingly simple murder investigation leads him to the most terrifying enemy he has ever faced

When a small-time criminal named Harold Lee turns up in the Ashokan Reservoir - sans a heartbeat, head, or hands - the local mafia capo hires Isaiah Coleridge to look into the matter. The mob likes crime, but only the crime it controls...and as it turns out, Lee is the second independent contractor to meet a bad end on the business side of a serrated knife. One such death can be overlooked. Two makes a man wonder.

A guy in Harold Lee's business would make his fair share of enemies, and it seems a likely case of pure revenge. But as Coledrige turns over more stones, he finds himself dragged into something deeper and more insidious than he could have imagined, in a labyrinthine case spanning decades. At the center are an heiress moonlighting as a cabaret dancer, a powerful corporation with high-placed connections, and a serial killer who may have been honing his skills since the Vietnam War....

A twisty, action-packed follow-up to the acclaimed Blood Standard, Black Mountain cements Laird Barron as an inventive and remarkable voice in crime fiction.

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8 hours and 50 minutes
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Laird Barron
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William DeMeritt
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May 7, 2019
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Penguin Audio
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B07RBY3D7M
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Listening Length	8 hours and 50 minutes
Author	Laird Barron
Narrator	William DeMeritt
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Audible.com Release Date	May 07, 2019
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07RBY3D7M
Best Sellers Rank	#100,434 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #496 in Hard-Boiled Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) #621 in Private Investigator Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) #3,378 in Hard-Boiled Mystery

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Kevin Jones

"A film noir afternoon in New York State."

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2019

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I am in awe of this book and Laird Barron's writing! I loved the first installment in this series, Blood Standard, about a former mob hitter navigating his way out of his old life in Upstate New York. This follow-up installment did not disappoint in picking up on elements of a traditional crime story, right down to making references to noir fixtures like the femme fatale and private investigator office with frosted glass window. But the story was so much more than that with the added twist of tracing Isaiah Coleridge's personal journey into darkness as he pursued a serial killer. This book is truly something special and one that I recommend you read as soon as possible if you are a fan of crime fiction.

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Dave Smith

Sophmore slump? Not even a little!

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2020

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Laird Barron had established himself as one of the two or three finest authors of horror fiction of the 21st century before he turned his hand to crime fiction with the first Isiah Coleridge novel in 2018. But there were hints of a hard-boiled pulp-noir sensibility in some of his work prior to the arrival of 'Blood Standard.’ Reading his stuff, you felt like in another time, another life, he could easily have been a more mentally stable Robert E. Howard, dealing horror and barbarian yarns to Weird Tales on even days of the week, and dark crime fiction on the odd days to Black Mask.

‘Blood Standard’ was a very good first novel, and ‘Black Mountain’ is better — you can feel the greater degree of comfort with the character, sense that Coleridge has really built a lair in Laird’s head, in much the same way you feel the difference in Spenser when you go from Robert B. Parker’s ‘The Godwulf Manuscript’ to ‘God Save the Child.’ In the first book, Coleridge seems half an idea, and half a character, but by ‘Blood Mountain’ he’s climbing out of the book and into your face, in the way that all of the best aggressive protagonists do.

In an exchange of emails after finishing ‘Blood Standard’ I told Laird that unlike with his horror fiction, this new book read like he was the bastard son of the late, great James Crumley — I’d honestly never read anything that echoed another author so strongly; this wasn't meant as a negative criticism, because I revere Crumley; it’s just that it had occurred to me that Laird being shaped by his life in Alaska, and Crumley having spent so many decades in the mountains of Montana, perhaps the two of them had absorbed something from these rugged environments that had shaped or informed their writing in some similar ways? His reply was: "Never read Crumley. Will rectify. There's something to the theory of shared DNA. The particulars may be unique to the person, but in a larger sense, geography and life experiences shape us in predictable ways.”

So for anyone who digs Laird’s tales of Isiah Coleridge, do not hesitate to look for James Crumley’s books about Milo Dragovich and C. W. Sughrue — some of the greatest crime fiction ever written, by a true original.

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Dark, Moving, Creepy, Crazy

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2021

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This is my first Isaiah Coleridge book. I love mysteries/crime, and I've been on a horror kick lately. I was intrigued by the premise of a book that offered both. Plus, a hint of Lovecraftian flavor? Sold!
The story was fast-paced and well-written. Despite the serial killer angle, there's nothing graphic or gory if that's not your cup of tea (it's not really mine). One thing that peeved me (slight spoiler): Isaiah has supernatural powers, but they do not affect the plot in any way. He pulls them out in one scene, very conveniently can't use them in the final fight, and that's it. I imagine his powers come into play in the other novels, but they don't add anything here. But hey, that's a tiny complaint for a whole novel.
Overall, I really enjoyed reading this one!

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Nolton P. Broussard

Another amazing Coleridge novel

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2020

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Thank all the dead stars and unfathomable abysses that Laird Barron is continuing to write his Isaiah Coleridge novels, I don’t know how I’m going to be able to wait until May to read the next one. These books stand alone in crime fiction, they pay homage to their predecessors but are their own sub genre as far as I’m concerned. Violent, questioning, creepy, melancholy and endlessly entertaining. If you’re also a fan of horror novels this book is a gift. I haven’t been as creeped out by a crime novel since reading Dennis Lehane’s Darkness, Take my Hand and that was almost 20 years ago if I remember correctly. Bottom line, it’s a great hardboiled neo-noir that perfectly mixes in hints of the cosmic horror that Barron became known for in the first place. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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Carolyn

Some detective series are showing their age. This one is fresh.

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2019

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I'm looking forward to an entire series of books from this author, with these characters. Some of my old, favorite detective series are getting a bit long in the tooth. This book follows that sub-genre of the main character, a belligerent, sarcastic guy who can outthink and out-muscle just about anyone, but with a bit of a heart of gold, and his sometimes almost sociopathic sidekick (think Spenser novels, Robert Crais, Mylon Bolitar from Harlan Coben, etc.). In this case, the antihero is an ex-hitman from the mob, the location is upstate NY. Despite loving the other series, it's time for something fresh. Something that's more 2019 than 2000. And the writing is rich and lively in ways that more than rival the series that I named. This is book #2 and I hope it's just a great start to a series with many more.

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Kent A. Larson

Isaiah Coleridge strikes again. Must read this whole series...please write faster!

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2019

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This is the second installment of what I hope will be a very long series by Laird Barron.

I enjoyed this book as much as the first and perhaps even better. Some readers might not like the author's use of mythology or philosophical observations but I do. This isn't just light literature but thought-provoking as well. This story was a grittier tale with more darkness but Isaiah and Barron were up to the task.

Again no adult language to speak of and PG on the sex content. Violence might go past PG13 into R but it is done tastefully, if you can believe me.

Once again, I highly recommend this novel and author.

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Lagoon

More of the same please.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2019

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This second book in the Isaiah Coleridge series is every bit as strong as the first. When two mob men are brutally despatched, Isaiah is tasked with finding their killer and bringing him to account. Being all too well aware that his own ledger with the mob could tip into a debit balance at any time, Isaiah is hardly in a position to refuse their request.

Teaming up with his buddy and ex marine Lionel, the chase is on. As was the case in Blood Standard, violence is never far from Coleridge and if it doesn’t find him, he’s happy to search for it. The story plays out at a measured pace and there are some supplementary escapades for Isaiah along the way. More than anything else though, it is the beauty of the writing that sets this book apart. Not dissimilar to the style of John Connolly, you can feel yourself just letting the elegant prose carry you away.

Now that Isaiah has set himself up as a legitimate PI with an office to maintain, he’s going to need some cases. Knowing Isaiah, you can bet that they will be hard ones.

Arno Gündisch

Wenn das uralte Böse zuschlägt

Reviewed in Germany on June 16, 2020

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Isaiah Coleridge ist nun offiziell Privatdetektiv (wie sein Alter Ego Charlie Parker) und schlägt sich mit mehr oder weniger trivialen Fällen herum, bevor ein hochkarätiger Vertreter des New Yorker Mafia-Clans seine Hilfe von neuem verlangt. Isaiah kann nicht nein sagen, schließlich hat ihm der Clan einmal das Leben gerettet. Und dafür verlangt er eine Gegenleistung. Der Auftrag: Isaiah soll die Morde an zwei Mafiosi aufklären, die zeitlich weit auseinanderliegen, aber die Handschrift desselben Mörders tragen.
Je weiter Isaiah in seinen Recherchen vordringt, desto undurchsichtiger wird das Geflecht aus Mafia-gesponserter Halbwelt, einer schillernden Frau, die sowohl in dieser Welt, als auch in der eines weltweit operierenden Rüstungskonzerns zu Hause ist, und einem scheinbar übernatürlich begabten Psychopathen, wie ihn Isaiah Coleridge bisher noch nie erlebt hat. Der hütet ein uraltes Geheimnis, das die Quelle seiner Macht ist-und nie an die Öffentlichkeit gelangen darf..
Wird Isaiah diesen Trip überleben?
Zum Unterschied von "Blood Standard" ist "Black Mountain" viel düsterer geschrieben und setzt mehr auf Atmosphäre statt nackter Gewalt. Fans von John Connollys dunkleren Romanen kommen hier voll auf ihre Kosten.

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Perceptive Reader

Good, but...

Reviewed in India on November 5, 2020

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I had absolutely loved 'Blood Standard'. To me it had appeared as a heavenly combination of hard-boiled mystery, crime thriller and revenge-drama, if not a belated bildungsroman.
This book, the second one in Isaiah Coleridge series, was nothing like it. It was competent but cramped. The writing was good, but not fresh. Suspense was non-existent. Most importantly, I didn’t like a single character here. It was only about crime through a glass darkly, with odd bits of philosophy thrown in.
I think I have had enough of Isaiah Coleridge.

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