https://www.lukedumas.com/selected-work daily 0.75 2023-11-22 https://www.lukedumas.com/ahistoryoffear daily 0.75 2024-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60dbeb2181070520f58d0fa9/f36f7591-efc3-48b1-916a-191af6d06167/89466_history-of-fear_assets_300x300-4.jpg A History of Fear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60dbeb2181070520f58d0fa9/33090ae3-e998-4507-8b0b-1e32969e2aa6/89466_history-of-fear_assets_300x300_revised-2.jpg A History of Fear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60dbeb2181070520f58d0fa9/a22e48b7-d79a-4e3f-851c-bb99bfba8bb5/89466_history-of-fear_assets_300x300-1.jpg A History of Fear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60dbeb2181070520f58d0fa9/daa09a6c-d313-4dd0-ae6b-77aaca89f615/89466_history-of-fear_assets_300x300_revised-3.jpg A History of Fear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60dbeb2181070520f58d0fa9/8c39d626-2d16-40b4-b1cf-8960308d0f61/89466_history-of-fear_assets_300x300_revised-1.jpg A History of Fear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60dbeb2181070520f58d0fa9/9692e2df-7f98-48c3-9d79-7aff4dff56e8/89466_history-of-fear_assets_300x300-3.jpg A History of Fear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60dbeb2181070520f58d0fa9/61c90998-6624-4b6b-8c4c-aaadfd12b758/90704+A+History+of+Fear_1080x1080_02.jpg A History of Fear - A HISTORY OF FEAR New York Times Editors’ Pick | Amazon Editors’ Pick | POPSUGAR Best Thriller & Mystery Books of 2022 AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK, E-BOOK & AUDIO An eerie literary suspense debut following the harrowing downfall of a tortured graduate student who’s been nicknamed the Devil’s Advocate for his sensational crime: murdering a classmate, then claiming the Devil made him do it. The Devil is in Scotland. Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil’s Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it. When Hale is found hanged in his prison cell, officers uncover a handwritten manuscript that promises to answer the question that’s haunted the nation for years: was Hale a lunatic, or had he been telling the truth all along? Unnervingly, Hale doesn’t fit the bill of a killer. The first-person narrative that centers this novel reveals an acerbic young atheist, newly enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to carry on the legacy of his recently deceased father. In need of cash, he takes a job ghostwriting a mysterious book for a dark stranger, but has misgivings when the project begins to reawaken his satanophobia, a rare condition that causes him to live in terror that the Devil is after him. As he struggles to disentangle fact from fear, Grayson’s world is turned upside-down after events force him to confront his growing suspicion that he’s working for the one he has feared all this time—and that the book is only the beginning of their partnership. A History of Fear is a propulsive foray into the darkness of the human psyche, marrying dread-inducing atmosphere and heart-palpitating storytelling. https://www.lukedumas.com/thepaleontologist daily 0.75 2024-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60dbeb2181070520f58d0fa9/c1c7a8bc-e44c-44e3-9fd4-cdd8965e284a/94537+The+Paleontologist+1080x1080_05.jpg The Paleontologist - THE PALEONTOLOGIST USA Today Bestseller | 2024 ITW Thriller Award Winner Esquire Best Horror Books of 2023 Pick | Barnes & Noble Monthly Pick | Amazon Editor’s Pick | 2024 Silver Falchion Award Finalist for Best Supernatural NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK, EBOOK & AUDIO A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is faced with a terrifying and murderous spirit in this chilling novel—perfect for fans of Simone St. James and Katy Hays. Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent break-up and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never found. But from the moment he arrives, things aren’t what he expected. The Hawthorne is a crumbling ruin, still closed amid the ongoing pandemic, and plummeting toward financial catastrophe. Worse, Simon begins seeing and hearing things he can’t explain. Strange animal sounds. Bloody footprints that no living creature could have left. A prehistoric killer looming in the shadows of the museum. Terrified he’s losing his grasp on reality, Simon turns to the handwritten research diaries of his predecessor and uncovers a blood-soaked mystery 150 million years in the making that could be the answer to everything. Are these the ravings of a madman? Or is there something supernatural at play? And what does this have to do with Morgan’s disappearance? Another atmospheric mystery from Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist is a ghost story unlike any other that will haunt you long after you turn the final page. 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The USA Today bestselling author of The Paleontologist returns with a spine-tingling new thriller about a weight loss treatment with potentially murderous side effects. Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he carries the weight of his childhood trauma and millennial ennui around his waist and in his soul. After trying every diet under the sun, he remains stuck—in his dead-end job, in love, and in his body. Desperate for help, he enrolls in a clinical trial for a new weight loss product called Obexity. The treatment is as horrifying as the results are miraculous and as Emmett sheds pounds at superhuman speed, every part of his life improves overnight. Unfortunately, Obexity comes with some killer side effects, including lost stretches of time and overwhelming cravings. Worse, people who were cruel to him have started disappearing and when the police warn of a cannibalistic killer on the loose, he fears that Obexity is turning him into a monster. But how can he give it up now that people are finally starting to treat him like he’s human? Nerve-racking, sinister, and at times surreal, Nothing Tastes as Good is an unputdownable thriller that combines The Substance with the best of Stephen King and keeps you guessing until the final page. https://www.lukedumas.com/events daily 0.75 2026-03-24