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Sat 06 Jun 2009A magnet for evil
CRIME: The LoversBy John ConnollyHodder Stoughton, 390pp. £11.99
SOME YEARS ago, Stephen King, the bestselling author of contemporary horror fiction, arrived in Australia with a friend to ride two Harleys from Sydney to Perth, camping along the way. Before they set out, King bought some local thrillers for campfire reading, including Funnelweb by Australian thriller writer Richard Ryan, which is described on its cover as “a ground breaking thriller encarnalising the evil in us all”. A few months later, Ryan received a letter via his publisher from King. It said, “Hey man, you sure scared the daylights out of me!”
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