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While David Carnoy lives in New York City with his wife and children, his novels take place in Silicon Valley, where he grew up and went to high school (Palo Alto). His debut novel, Knife Music (2010), was a Top-10 bestseller on the Kindle and also a bestseller on the Nook. More medical thriller than high-tech thriller, to research the novel Carnoy spent a lot of time talking with doctors, visiting trauma centers, and trailed a surgeon at a hospital in Northern California to help create the book's protagonist, Dr. Ted Cogan.
The Big Exit (2012) isn't a sequel to Knife Music per se. However, a few of the characters from Knife Music figure prominently in the story. His second novel has more of a high-tech slant and reflects Carnoy's experiences as an executive editor at CNET.com, where he currently works and is trying resolve his obsession with consumer electronics products. He went to college at Wesleyan University and has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University.
"A lot people ask me how I have time to write novels when I have a full-time job and four little kids and I just say I got a hold of some of those pills Bradley Cooper's character popped in the movie Limitless," Carnoy says. He adds that if Bradley Cooper is reading this, he'd make "an excellent Dr. Ted Cogan for the film version ofKnife Music."
Carnoy is also fan of The Big Lebowski and all Coen brothers movies except The Ladykillers.
JEANBOOKNERD PODCAST 2018: SEASON 1 EPISODE 16
GUEST: DAVID CARNOY
"David Carnoy gets better with each book... Lucidity is a Tour de Force of a thriller that captures you from the very first page." —New York Times Bestselling Author Harlan Coben
"Carnoy's sharp sense of humor and clever plotting... make this novel a standout." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Twenty years after the unsolved case of Stacey Walker’s disappearance went cold, a Silicone Valley executive hires the retired Menlo Park Police Detective Hank Madden to find her body and track down her missing husband, the prime suspect in her unsolved murder. Four months later, author Candace Epstein is pushed in front of a car near Central Park. Her editor Max Fremmer becomes entangled in the investigation of her attempted murder, though he is adamant that he is uninvolved. As he digs into Candace’s background to clear his own name, Fremmer grows suspicious of his client’s connection to a nefarious institute for lucid dreaming on the Upper East Side and its staff whose stories never seem to add up—all while an unexpected link emerges to Detective Madden’s investigation in California.
As similarities arise between the cases on each coast, Detective Madden and Fremmer forge an unlikely partnership to expose what misconduct lurks beneath the façade of the Lucidity Center—but can they unravel the secret that links their investigations together in time, or are they only dreaming? Carnoy’s Luciditystuns with complex detail that will keep readers guessing until the final, satisfying jolt.
TEN REASONS TO READ LUCIDITY (HANK MADDEN #3)
- Lucid dreaming is part of the story
- One of main characters is a book doctor and a spin instructor
- It’s partially based on a real-life murder case in Menlo Park, CA, the home of Facebook
- It’s twisty -- and humorous in spots
- The protagonist’s main mode of transportation is a kick scooter
- Everybody in the book has written a book, is writing a book or wants to write a book
- It got a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was highlighted in Time Magazine
- It mixes several genres without you realizing it does
- You won’t guess who did it (easily anyway)
- It doesn’t cost that much
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