Today’s Book Review Tuesday post is a seriously creepy, deliciously dark, sinfully sharp whip-crack of a novel. Voice, by Joseph Garraty, is the story of Johnny Tango (a.k.a. John Tsiboukas), troubled soul and lead singer of the band Ragman. And he owes thanks for both descriptors to the mysterious man he meets at the crossroads. Yes, the proverbial crossroads – as in Robert Johnson went down to the crossroads… (If you don’t know that legend, poor thing, it’s time to l learn something about the blues, so take a gander here.)

After a prologue sure to raise every single hair on the back of your neck, the story opens in a dark bar, new-band night under way. In a moment of perfect synchronicity – or else diabolical master-minding, you be the judge after reading the full story – fiction’s coolest female guitar-slinger, Case (of course she only has one name – she’s fiction’s coolest female guitar-slinger… ), finds herself a new band, and shortly thereafter John finds himself a new voice (and a new persona). And so it begins.
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