Relics: A Relics Novel

by Tim Lebbon

Overview

"Lebbon is a master of drip-feeding horror and suspense" - The Guardian on Relics

Beneath the surface of our world, mythological creatures and their artifacts still exist—corrupt people pay fortunes for a sliver of dragon bone, a basilisk's scale, or an angel's wing. Angela Gough is an American criminology student in London whose fiancé Vince disappears, and her investigation leads her into a black market specializing in arcane relics. She meets Mary Rock, a criminal of mythic status who also wants to find Vince... to kill him. Angela and a growing team of adventurers must stop this horrific trade, yet they face a growing menace as the hunted creatures begin to fight back.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785650338
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	03/21/2017
Series:	Relics Trilogy Series , #1
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	141,435
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Tim Lebbon is the New York Times bestselling author of Coldbrook, The Silence, and the Relics trilogy. He has also written many successful movie novelizations and tie-ins for Alien and Firefly. Tim has won three British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, a Shocker, a Tombstone and been a finalist for the International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards. The Silence is now a gripping Netflix movie starring Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka.

Editorial Reviews

01/23/2017
Fans of Lebbon (The Silence) will know to expect supernatural horror, but here it’s delivered only to those willing to wait. Little distinguishes the opening from a mid-1970s Updike novel. Angela and Vince are an ordinary couple in suburban London. She’s from Boston (or so the narrative claims, unconvincingly) and working on a doctorate in criminology; he’s in real estate. Angela’s none too clear on Vince’s exact job, and she gets a lot less certain when Vince goes AWOL and his purported bosses shrug. Putting her true-crime reading to use, she tracks him through the city’s shadows while a battered Vince grapples with mysterious captors. It’s difficult to say which audience this book is intended for. Horror aficionados must be patient with the lengthy setup before the threats take form, and fans of character-driven storytelling are confronted with clichés: a woman who says no to sex even when she’s interested, just because; the man who says he loves her but jumps in bed with a beautiful stranger, just because. Lebbon’s visual imagination is good, and his experience with movie novelizations is amply evident, but his subject matter could stand to be refreshed. Agent: Howard Morhaim, Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

Tim Lebbon’s RELICS opens a darkly beautiful glimpse into another world, one lurking in the shadows, hovering at the corner of the eye. If Anne Rice and Clive Barker had written a story together, it might have looked something like this novel:  richly imagined, fantastical, yet grounded in the grit and reality of modern-day London. I look forward to the wonders and terrors yet to come.”
—James Rollins, New York Times–bestselling author of The Bone Labyrinth

“In Relics, Tim Lebbon has created yet another wonderful world for readers to lose themselves in, one which will likely remind them of both Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker, yet speeding them along with the thrilling pace of James Rollins or John Connelly. Lebbon’s writing, as always, seduces the reader, inviting them into his imagination, while they find themselves immersed in the fantastic, horrific roller-coaster ride which ends too soon. Thankfully, Relics will have two sequels to complete the journey. Highly recommended. If you weren’t a fan of Tim Lebbon before, this will likely be the novel to change your mind.”
—Cemetary Dance Magazine 

“Relics puts all of his storytelling skills to use . . . bright, flashy, and determined, with a breakneck ending that almost guarantees this isn’t the last time we’ll venture beneath the suburbs of London.” 
—Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi Blog

“fans of Lebbon will want to pick this one up.” 
—Booklist

“You’re in for a treat here.”
—Sciencefiction.com 

“A no-holds-barred feast of dark urban fantasy fiction for adult readers.”
—Rising Shadow  

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