For those who don’t know, I wrote my first book this year and published it on July 4th (I thought that was a good date to go live).
Writing the book was an incredible process but publishing it and watching the reviews and feedback come in ever since has been a real joy.
All of the reviews have been great, and yes I read each and every one, but sometimes one sticks out that I just have to share with all of you.
This one comes from Mary K. and can be found on my GoodReads page for The Confessor:
I absolutely love that!
She says they basically bought it as a favor to me and then she was really glad they did because they absolutely loved it!
How cool is that?
Thank you Mary!
And thank you to everyone who has bought and enjoyed the book.
And it’s not just all of you, it’s the professionals too.
Kirkus Reviews is one of the most respected and TOUGHEST professional review outlets there are for books.
Submitting my book to them and asking for a review was a nerve-wracking process.
Would they like it?
Would they recommend it?
Or would they tell me the book wasn’t as good as I thought it was and people like Mary were just responding out of a favor to me?
Risky business.
But I had to know.
I had to be graded by the best.
And…that review just came back this week and they gave me their coveted “GET IT” rating!
YES!!
Full report on that here:
JUST IN: Kirkus Reviews Gives My Book Its “GET IT” Recommendation!
All the links are right here:
Hardcover on Amazon available here: https://amzn.to/4vhvun5
Paperback on Amazon available here: https://amzn.to/4vcnX8U
Kindle on Amazon available here: https://amzn.to/44gCTYC
Signed first-edition on my website available here: https://books.wltlh.com/TheConfessor/
And another incredible review here:
Independent Book Review Just Published Its Verdict On The Confessor — And I’m Blown Away!
Hey everybody,
Noah here.
I just got to see something I have been waiting for, and honestly, this one hit me.
Independent Book Review has now published its full review of The Confessor for the world to read.
And it is fantastic!
This review runs more than 1,000 words and examines the book as a complete crime novel.
Reviewer Erin Britton went deep into the book, the characters, the Los Angeles setting, the police work and the moral question running underneath the entire story.
She understood what I was trying to build.
That means more to me than I can properly explain.
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What grabbed me first was that Britton did not reduce The Confessor to a body count.
She follows the killer’s method, his research and the warped logic he uses to turn confession into a private courtroom. She explains why those scenes carry psychological weight instead of existing simply to shock the reader.
She also tracks the other side of the hunt: Logan’s patient detective work, the evidence that builds one piece at a time and the public sympathy that makes the case even more dangerous. Her review connects that investigation to the novel’s fraud, image culture and performative morality, showing how the modern setting keeps the premise from feeling recycled.
The killer believes he has built a moral case against every victim.
Detective Logan Hollister still has to stop him, but the evidence keeps forcing an ugly question into the open:
What happens when a murderer can prove that every accusation is true?
That tension was there from the first page I wrote.
Logan is not chasing a random monster. He is chasing someone who has turned research, confession and punishment into his own private justice system.
Britton says that moral ambiguity gives the novel its momentum and lifts it beyond a conventional serial-killer story.
That is exactly it.
Britton also zeroed in on Logan himself.
She describes him as grounded and engaging, a detective who succeeds through patience, observation and careful reasoning instead of impossible flashes of genius.
I wanted Logan to be very good at his job without turning him into a superhero.
He notices things.
He thinks.
He keeps pulling one thread at a time until the whole thing starts to come apart.
And he is much more alive inside an investigation than he is sitting beside the ocean pretending retirement fits him.
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Then there is Curt Alton.
I love that Britton caught the warmth in the friendship between Logan and Curt.
Those two have history. They trust each other.
They can cut through a grim case with one dry line, but they never turn the story into a nonstop comedy routine.
The review praises their understated humor and the natural rhythm of their conversations.
It also praises the investigative side of the book.
Cases unfold through interviews, surveillance, informants, evidence and incremental deductions. A small robbery can open into something much larger because Logan keeps looking after everyone else would be tempted to stop.
And then Britton gets to Los Angeles.
Forget postcard Los Angeles.
The real city of aging strip malls, diners, traffic, anonymous offices, neighborhood institutions and long drives where one block can feel like a completely different world from the next.
She says the city feels lived in.
That made me smile, because Los Angeles does more than provide the backdrop. It supplies the pressure.
It is beautiful, corrupt, funny, lonely and always awake.
It is exactly the kind of place where a killer with a philosophy could become something worse than famous.
Britton is honest about the places where the book may not work equally well for every reader. She wanted more development for some secondary characters and thought a few procedural discussions ran longer than necessary.
I respect that.
A real review should be a real review.
But her final verdict is one I will remember for a long time.
She calls the debut “an impressive achievement” and says the execution reveals a “unique voice.”
Then she closes by calling The Confessor “a gripping crime story that offers far more than the promise of another serial killer.”
Wow.
I wrote this book hoping people would race through the investigation but still be thinking about justice, guilt and certainty after the last page.
To have an independent critic identify all of that, while also praising Logan, Curt, the dialogue and the city itself, is about as good as it gets.
If you have been waiting to see what an outside professional reviewer thinks, the verdict is now public.
Go read the review.
Then come meet Logan Hollister.
Thank you for every purchase, every recommendation and every honest review.
We are building something special around Logan Hollister, and I am just getting started.
Enjoy!
— Noah
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