Skyward

In this dark and gritty crime novel, the vacant Skyward Fairgrounds loom in the background as regional police officers pursue a stolen car and its unpredictable driver. A dangerous, high-speed chase unfolds. A few miles from the frozen highways, relentless Detective Kyle McVeigh pushes the boundaries to arrest local troublemaker Stan Hill; McVeigh is convinced Hill is responsible for three abductions that occurred at the Skyward Fair. The peculiar life of the pursued unfolds as he taunts and dares his pursuers, while the single-minded McVeigh moves ever closer to taking down his suspect. But when rookie officer Sheila Warfield enters the fray, the facts–and her uncanny premonitions–threaten to drag everyone into frightening and deadly territory.

AUTHOR

Philip David Alexander

Philip David Alexander’s fiction has appeared in various journals and magazines including StoryGlossia, Hardboiled and Front & Centre. He is the author of two previous novels, The Next Rainy Day and North of Here. He lives in Burlington, Ontario.

Reviews

“A chilling, atmospheric crime procedural.” – Kirkus Reviews

“Skyward is an intricate, closely observed story of the inner lives of some dozen people, none of them untroubled. It’s a dark tale, a tale of considerable suspense and some violence–and yet, for this reader at least, its most singular trait is a large compassion and sympathy. Philip David Alexander has constructed a kind of latter-day Winesburg, Ohio.” – Castle Freeman Jr., author of The Devil in the Valley and Go With Me

“Philip David Alexander’s Skyward is the police novel I’ve been waiting for: dark, accessible, full of heart, gutsy and gripping, close to the bone. I read it fast, thrumming along, carried by the incredible momentum and a great mingling of voices. Echoes of Jim Thompson’s The Criminal and Walter Hill’s The Driver, but menacing and absorbing in new ways. Put this book at the top of your to-read list now.” – William Boyle, author of Gravesend and Death Don’t Have No Mercy