"If you haven't had your big summer scare yet, time's a wasting: pick up The Keeper, and you'll have a great Autumn follow-up to look forward to--
and, if there's any justice, a King-like, decades-long stretch of frighteningly good novels after that."
—Publishers Weekly Book Blog, July 30th, 2007
Bram Stoker Award Winner for Outstanding Novel, 2007
Dark Scribe Editor's Choice for Outstanding Novel, 2007
American Library Association award winner, 2007
Favorite book of 2007
—Marc Schultz, Publishers Weekly
Editor's Choice
—The New York Times Book Review, February 4, 2007
"The only horror story I’ve read recently that finds adequate metaphors for the self-destructive properties of anger."
—Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review, January 28, 2007
"The best book of 2006."
—Eric Compton, Maximum Horrors
"Akin to the more ambitious work of Stephen King...this effective debut promises great things to come."
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, August 28, 2006
"...The new author on the block is definitely a keeper..."
—Edward Bryant, Locus Magazine, July 2006