Description: A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Mystery & Thriller for Spring "Just when you think you've got her all figured out, Joyce Carol Oates sneaks up behind and confounds you yet again. She does it with a wicked flourish in Jack of Spades ."-- New York Times Book Review "Joyce Carol Oates' fascination with the mind's creepier corners is amply demonstrated in Jack of Spades . . . the distinguished novelist's latest example of disturbing but compelling psychological suspense. Oates is smooth--so smooth that readers barely notice how she tightens her silken noose of a plot around their throats."-- Seattle Times "Suspenseful, fast-moving."-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Entertaining, page-turning . . . [A] perfect summer read."-- Tampa Bay Times "Sleek and suspenseful . . . Readers are sure to be gripped and unsettled by [Oates's] depiction of a seemingly mild-mannered character whose psychopathology simmers frighteningly close to the surface."-- Publishers Weekly (boxed and starred review) "A great psychological noir novel . . . [A] tour de force . . . This tale of suspense makes for another high-caliber Oatesian outing, displaying flair, noir sophistication, and [Stephen] King-like flourishes."-- Library Journal (starred review) "A chilling thriller . . . Gothic in its paranoia, but thoroughly modern in its observations on fame's destructive powers."--Bustle "A mystery writer slowly becomes subsumed by his dark alter ego in Oates' tale of literary madness . . . With its homages to Poe . . . and the horror masters Jack of Spades so admires, this latest unsettling and chilling thriller from Oates does not disappoint."-- Kirkus Reviews "Delightful."-- Times (UK) "A very good read . . . Oates does not let her fans down--and she undoubtedly will pick up new ones with her latest effort."--Bookreporter "Playful . . . With Jack of Spades Ms. Oates places her cards on the table and shows us a Royal Straight Flush."--Three Guys One Book "A fast-paced read filled with high drama and the expertly-rendered delineation of a writer's descent into madness."--Lonesome Reader

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