Library Journal Starred Review of Die Famous

August 3, 2026

Savannah Cody truly loves Eddie “Nickel” Terhune, but there are days when she could easily kill him—like when she hears that a reward is out for Eddie and the other members of Al Brady’s gang after their most recent bank robbery. Considering all the grief she has...

Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review of Die Famous

June 17, 2026

This enthralling historical thriller from Koryta (Departure 37, written as Scott Carson) follows a gangster, his sweetheart, and their son. In early 20th-century Indiana, Savannah Cody grows up with and falls in love with the troubled Eddie “Nickel” Terhune, who fixes...

The Globe and Mail on AN HONEST MAN

June 16, 2023

The story begins with a mass murder on a yacht. Seven men are dead, two of them U.S. senators, and the perfect suspect is at hand. Israel Pike is infamous as a man who killed his own father. Elsewhere on the island, a young boy runs away from an abusive father and...

Tampa Bay Times on WHERE THEY WAIT

October 27, 2021

Do you ever watch horror films and shout at the screen, “Don’t go in there!” Where They Wait had me wanting to shout at Nick, “Throw away that phone!” But we never do, do we? Click here to read the...

New York Times on WHERE THEY WAIT

October 26, 2021

“Mindfulness apps are frightening beasts, but a mindfulness app that delves deep inside the psyche to control dreams? Pure horror. The premise of WHERE THEY WAIT, Scott Carson’s compulsively readable psychological horror novel, rests upon anxiety and a need to...

Publishers Weekly on WHERE THEY WAIT

October 25, 2021

“Superior prose (“The elevator doors sealed across her like gravedigger’s dirt”) enhances a craftily twisted plot, which sticks its landing.” Click here to read the starred review