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Christopher Rice

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in Berkeley, California, The United States

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Thrillers, Supernatural/horror, Romance

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Anne Rice, Stan Rice ...more

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Christopher Rice is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award and is the Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author of A Density of Souls; Bone Music, Blood Echo, and Blood Victory in the Burning Girl series; and Bram Stoker Award finalists The Heavens Rise and The Vines. An executive producer for television, Christopher also penned the novels Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra and Ramses The Damned: The Reign of Osiri with his late mother Anne Rice. Together with his best friend and producing partner, New York Times bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn, Christopher runs the production company Dinner Partners. Among other projects, they produce the podcast and video network TDPS, which can be found at www.TheDinnerPartySh ...more

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	Bone Music (Burning Girl, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 15,842 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Density of Souls 3.92 avg rating — 9,302 ratings — published 2000 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Snow Garden 3.76 avg rating — 5,647 ratings — published 2002 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Echo (Burning Girl, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 3,745 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Light Before Day 3.79 avg rating — 3,209 ratings — published 2004 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vines 3.49 avg rating — 3,263 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heavens Rise 3.60 avg rating — 2,393 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Victory (Burning Girl, #3) 4.29 avg rating — 1,777 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blind Fall 3.70 avg rating — 2,010 ratings — published 2008 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Decimate 3.99 avg rating — 1,215 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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You can only write what you know?Nonsense. Let me translate this statement. There is a certain type of writer (and reviewer) who believes the only legitimate form of fiction is the kind so directly fueled by a writer’s personal experience it’s almost impossible to distinguish it from memoir.

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“If you spend enough time in the past, everyone turns into a villain,”
― Christopher Rice, The Moonlit Earth

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“Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.”
― Christopher Rice

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“That’s what guilt truly is, Scott realizes, a fishhook’s tug on the third or fourth minute of every happy moment.”
― Christopher Rice, The Vines

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Time to vote for our April read! Mystery/Thriller is the genre that won out in the poll. Last day to vote will be Saturday, March 8. Happy voting!

The Eight

Katherine Neville

3 votes, 50.0%

Under the Snow

Kerstin Ekman

2 votes, 33.3%

Lake of Sorrows

Erin Hart

1 vote, 16.7%

The Angel of Darkness

Caleb Carr

0 votes, 0.0%

The Bottoms

Joe R. Lansdale

0 votes, 0.0%

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Iain Pears

0 votes, 0.0%

A Density of Souls

Christopher Rice

0 votes, 0.0%

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