Tampa Bay Times Reviewer Reads LAST WORDS in the Daylight

September 1, 2015

A Tampa Bay Times reviewer has to read LAST WORDS in the daylight– “I wasn’t more than a third of the way into Michael Koryta’s Last Words late one recent evening when I closed its covers and started browsing Netflix for silly sitcoms. I knew...

A Fun & Gripping murder mystery in caves

August 31, 2015

The Washington Post find LAST WORDS fun and gripping: The versatile Michael Koryta’s new thriller is an exercise in sustained creepy atmospherics…It’s a kind of “Twin Peaks” with stalactites. It’s also a good guilt-ridden-survivor yarn, about a man whose last...

Behind the Book: Caving Realities Part 1

August 28, 2015

After spending so much of LAST WORDS demonstrating what one should not do in a cave, it seemed prudent to speak to an expert about the realities of caving. Anmar Mirza was a generous resource during my research, and his work should make anyone who goes underground...

Behind the Book: Hypnotized for the Cause

August 20, 2015

I love the field research process (it’s the reporter in me that refuses to die) and LAST WORDS led me to some stranger places than even I’d anticipated. The caves, I thought I was ready for. I had not anticipated undergoing hypnosis, however. But the more I read about...