Combustible
Punch
Your next favorite reason to lose sleep is a click away.
Publisher: Owl Club Media Group
ASIN: B07RS1D178
ISBN-13: 978-1733088329
Print length: 346 pages
Thriller
Suspense
Psychological Thriller
“I haven't found many first chapters that have me raising my eyebrows and intrigued for more as good as this one has. This complex thrill ride of a book left me binging it rather quickly and jumping back in to see if I could pick up the clues again. What an absolutely marvelous novel.”
★★★★★
“I honestly felt like this book was written for me as a reader. It was impactful, it was fast paced, it had thrills and an ounce of mystery in it. This is my cup of tea, as they say.”
★★★★★
“In the first few pages I was sucked in for a wild ride that I did not want to end. I finished the book and turned to my sleeping husband at 4am and yelled MORE.”
★★★★★
“Really liked this book... it held my attention and I couldn't put it down. Stayed up until 3am on a rainy Sunday during quarantine to finish this book.”
★★★★★
“Little did I know, I would be up half the night, several nights in a row, reading just one more chapter. The chapters are short... just one more.”
★★★★★
Some stories choose their writers. Others devour them.
Rick Philips survived a high school massacre, but the scars run deeper than flesh. Years later, he's a washed-up author drowning in guilt, failed marriages, and the suffocating weight of being called a "survivor." His one successful book feels like a lifetime ago, and the bottle has become his most faithful companion.
At a deteriorating writers' conference, Rick encounters Harriet Bristol Wheeler—brilliant, magnetic, and utterly dangerous. After a night of whiskey and reckless intimacy, she makes him an offer no struggling writer could refuse: the story of a lifetime.
Her story. A serial killer's confession.
Harriet doesn't just kill—she orchestrates death with the precision of an artist and the cunning of a predator. She's everything Rick fears and everything his career desperately needs. But as he descends into her twisted world to write the book that could save him, Rick discovers that some stories exact a price far beyond what any writer should pay.
In Harriet's shadow, the line between observer and participant blurs. Between victim and accomplice. Between the man who survived hell and the one who might create it.
The past never stays buried. And some devils wear familiar faces.
A razor-sharp psychological thriller in the tradition of Gone Girl and The Silence of the Lambs, Combustible Punch explores the dangerous territory where trauma meets obsession, where survival becomes its own kind of prison, and where the stories we tell ourselves are the most deadly lies of all.
For readers who crave the psychological complexity of Gillian Flynn, the dark intensity of Thomas Harris, and the unflinching character studies of Stieg Larsson.