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Allen Eskens

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Allen Eskens is the USA Today-bestselling author of nine novels, including The Life We Bury and Nothing More Dangerous. His latest novel, THE QUIET LIBRARIAN, will publish on Feb. 18, 2025
He is the recipient of the Barry Award, Rosebud Award, Minnesota Book Award, and the Silver Falchion Award and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, Thriller Award, Nero, and Anthony Award. His work had been published in 23 languages.

To learn more about Allen or his books, go to www.alleneskens.com.
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THE SHADOWS WE HIDE - THE SEQUEL

The Shadows We Hide, the sequel to The Life We Bury is on store shelves now and I'm proud of how it is being received. The Minneapolis TV station KARE 11 chose it for their January Book Club pick and we did a live Facebook discussion. KARE 11 was kind enough to put together a little clip - eleven things to know about yours truly - attached below, if you want to check it out.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 231,864 ratings · 23,548 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert, #1; Detective Max Rupert, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 141,105 ratings — published 2014 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadows We Hide (Joe Talbert, #2) 4.16 avg rating — 16,466 ratings — published 2018 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stolen Hours (Joe Talbert, #3) 4.28 avg rating — 14,345 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heavens May Fall (Detective Max Rupert, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 14,141 ratings — published 2016 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Guise of Another (Detective Max Rupert, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 14,519 ratings — published 2015 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing More Dangerous (Boady Sanden, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 10,925 ratings — published 2019 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deep Dark Descending (Detective Max Rupert, #4) 3.95 avg rating — 10,758 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2) 4.16 avg rating — 4,838 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forsaken Country (Detective Max Rupert, #5) by Allen Eskens (Goodreads Author), Brian Troxell (Narrator) 4.24 avg rating — 4,663 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quiet Librarian 4.53 avg rating — 96 ratings — expected publication 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Allen Eskens is now friends with Kim Adams
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Allen Eskens added a status update: Booklist starred review of The Quiet Librarian. "...an intense and emotional story about grief, loss, and the horrors of war. ... The Quiet Librarian will make readers contemplate their definition of justice and the decisions humans make when trapped in terrible situations." (only two more days to enter the Goodreads giveaway) https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
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Allen Eskens made a comment on Nikki Lee’s review of Nothing More Dangerous (Boady Sanden, #1) " Thank you for that wonderful review. Nothing warms the heart of a writer more than to know that his or her work evokes emotion. "
Feb 01, 2024 10:35PM · see review
Allen Eskens made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — This book is not mine, please move it (part 15) topic " On my author page, my book, The Life We Bury has been replaced with the cover and page for one of the foreign versions (Romanian maybe? Ultma Zapada). ...more "
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“no one can change the sound of an echo.”
― Allen Eskens, The Life We Bury

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“We are surrounded every day by the wonders of life, wonders beyond comprehension that we simply take for granted. I decided that day that I would live my life—not simply exist. If I died and discovered heaven on the other side, well, that'd be just fine and dandy. But if I didn't live my life as if I was already in heaven, and I died and found only nothingness, well…I would have wasted my life. I would have wasted my one chance in all of history to be alive.” Carl”
― Allen Eskens, The Life We Bury

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“What if I was wrong? What if there was no other side. What if, in all the eons of eternity, this was the one and only time that I would be alive. How would I live my life if that were the case?”
― Allen Eskens, The Life We Bury

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Polls

January Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 Books Move Onto Final Poll

The Night She Disappeared

by Lisa Jewell

13 votes, 43.3%

All The Lonely People

by Mike Gayle

3 votes, 10.0%

Once There Were Wolves

by Charlotte McConaghy

3 votes, 10.0%

The Other Passenger

by Louise Candlish

2 votes, 6.7%

The Downstairs Girl

by Stacey Lee

2 votes, 6.7%

The Winter King

by Bernard Cornwell

2 votes, 6.7%

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

2 votes, 6.7%

The Shadows We Hide

by Allen Eskens

2 votes, 6.7%

West with Giraffes

by Lynda Rutledge

1 vote, 3.3%

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

by Becky Chambers

0 votes, 0.0%

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