Coming Stateside at last, in 2009

"Daniel G. Keohane has crafted a tense, intricate thriller that will appeal to fans of The Davinci Code.... Solomon's Grave is a creepy, intense read that will keep you on the edge of your seat. I loved it!"
-- Brian Keene, author of The Rising and Earthworm Gods

This is the novel length version of my short story "Lavish" originally published in 2000 and turned into a full-blown novel a couple of years later. To this day it's one of my favorite novels, a modern take on the Great Flood. It was a semi-finalist in the Penguin / Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest andis my agent, Sara Camilli, is currently marketing the heck out of it.

From Publisher's Weekly (reviewed as part of the above-mentioned Amazon novel contest): Apocalyptic horror meets Christian spirituality in this update of the Noah's Ark story. When Margaret Carboneau, a widowed mother of two, has a dream in which an angel commands her to build an ark to save 30 people from the coming deluge, she brushes off the unsettling vision until she learns that thousands of people worldwide have had virtually identical dreams. Margaret constructs an ark, encountering skepticism and resistance from the locals. Although Margaret's story of faith and sacrifice forms the crux of the novel, the author adds perspective and texture by incorporating the stories of others affected by visions; some of these subplots are more deftly executed than others, but they provide plenty of opportunity to explore faith from multiple perspectives. Like the original tale, the manuscript's tone is ultimately hopeful, though it pulls no punches in its portrayal of the consequences for those who fail to believe.

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Doomsday Key. (formerly titled Destroyer of Worlds)... After Plague of Darkness I decided to go back to straight horror with no religious connotations, much like the majority of my short stories. This was also the first time I outlined the book all the way through first. Turned out pretty cool, if not a tad surreal by the end. It's also the fastest I've ever written a novel, 7 months from the first word of the outline to the last of the final draft. Half supernatural / half psychological horror. My agent is reading it now and is even considering marketing it with a psudonym.

Plague of Locusts is the new one I'd begun working on, stopping at 23K words in 2007 picked it pack up in 2008 again and an crunching along with it, but also working on Lost in the Woods, another mainstream horror novel.

Wails & Gnashing is still around, not to worry. I was looking at it recently, revised the first four chapters I'd already written and decided this is a fun book and I need to write it, so - depending on my mood I'll be working on this one as well.