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Those Who Came Before (Fiction Without Frontiers) Paperback – October 24, 2019

by J.H. Moncrieff (Author)
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"Moncrieff’s novel is a lightning-fast read, which is not a bad thing. She paints a vivid picture of the lost tribe and weaves her story arcs together brilliantly. She also sheds light on Native peoples’ treatment in both past and present, smoothly integrating the issue into the novel. Readers won’t want to put it down." — Booklist

People are dying at Strong Lake, and the worst is yet to come.

An idyllic weekend camping trip is cut short when Reese Wallace s friends are brutally murdered. As the group s only survivor, Reese is the prime suspect, and his story doesn t make much sense. A disembodied voice warning him to leave the campground the night before? A strange, blackened tree that gave him an electric shock when he cut it down for firewood?

Detective Greyeyes isn t having any of it until she hears the voice herself and finds an arrowhead at the crime scene an arrowhead she can t get rid of. Troubling visions of a doomed Native American tribe who once called the campground home, and rumors of cursed land and a mythical beast plague the strangest murder case she s ever been a part of.

FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
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    Fiction Without Frontiers
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    October 24, 2019
  6. Dimensions
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  7. ISBN-10
    1787582973
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1787582972
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"Moncrieff’s novel is a lightning-fast read, which is not a bad thing. She paints a vivid picture of the lost tribe and weaves her story arcs together brilliantly. She also sheds light on Native peoples’ treatment in both past and present, smoothly integrating the issue into the novel. Readers won’t want to put it down." -- Booklist

"While Moncrieff has already released a number of outstanding works (I still need to read The Ghost Writer series) this is her masterpiece. In this case though, I have no doubt Moncrieff will continue to churn out stunning releases. She’ one of the BEST authors out there." -- Kendall Reviews

“The author elegantly intertwines a routine slasher with abhorring acts omitted from our textbooks and creates this new-fangled setting that’s nervy and organic in its exposition. Like the ill-fated campers, readers are in for much more than a simple scare.” -- Fangoria

"As far as I’m concerned, J.H.’s work gets better and better and this release is a winner from the first word to the last." -- The Haunted Pen

“Those Who Came Before is a campfire story gone horrifically wrong, and we have no one to blame but ourselves for the bloody aftermath.” -- High fever Books

“Moncrieff’s skilled storytelling, while incorporating plenty of gore and violence at times, will draw in horror and mystery readers. Hand to fans of Dean Koontz and Charlaine Harris.” -- Library Journal

About the Author

J.H. Moncrieff's City of Ghosts won the 2018 Kindle Book Review Award for best Horror/Suspense. Reviewers have described her work as early Gillian Flynn with a little Ray Bradbury and Stephen King thrown in for good measure. She won Harlequin's search for "the next Gillian Flynn" in 2016. Her first published novella, The Bear Who Wouldn't Leave, was featured in Samhain's Childhood Fears collection and stayed on its horror bestsellers list for over a year.

When not writing, she loves exploring the world's most haunted places, advocating for animal rights, and summoning her inner ninja in muay thai class.

To get free ebooks and a new spooky story every week, go to http://bit.ly/MoncrieffLibrary.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Flame Tree Press; New edition (October 24, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1787582973
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1787582972
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
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J.H. Moncrieff's City of Ghosts won the 2018 Kindle Book Review Award for best Horror/Suspense.

Reviewers have described her work as early Gillian Flynn with a little Ray Bradbury and Stephen King thrown in for good measure.

She won Harlequin's search for “the next Gillian Flynn” in 2016. Her first published novella, The Bear Who Wouldn’t Leave, was featured in Samhain’s Childhood Fears collection and stayed on its horror bestsellers list for over a year.

When not writing, she loves exploring the world's most haunted places, advocating for animal rights, and summoning her inner ninja in muay thai class.

To get free ebooks and a new spooky story every week, go to http://bit.ly/MoncrieffLibrary.

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Supernatural horror with a heavy dose of gore and mystery!
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Supernatural horror with a heavy dose of gore and mystery!
Those Who Came Before by J.H. Moncrieff is a story of bloodshed and a creature of legend that brutalizes a town after a mistake is made on a seemingly innocent camping trip.My goodness. This story starts off tense and only gets darker from there! While the mystery is filled with twists and turns, there are also many elements of a thriller mixed in. The author slowly presents pieces of the puzzle to the readers at a pace that feels like we’re getting closer to having the full image, but not enough for us to yet see what’s going on.This haunting tale is one that I would highly recommend. It really sank it’s claws into me and take me on a dark and powerful trip. My heart broke for these characters as I learned more about what was actually happening.A must-read for fans of supernatural horror with a heavy dose of gore and mystery.
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Fauwxx
5.0 out of 5 stars Folk Horror with great characters
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2024
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Title: Those Who Came Before
Author: J.H. Moncrieff
Publisher: Flame Tree Press
Paperback/Hardback: Kindle Ebook
Fiction/Non-Fiction: Fiction
Genre: Horror/Folk Horror
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Quick and addicting Folk Horror read with great characters and expertly built plot lines. Some blood and gore, but nothing the seasoned horror reader can't handle!
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Stormi @ BMReviewsohmy
4.0 out of 5 stars First time reading this author, won't be the last!
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2019
This was my first time reading something by this author but I will be looking into reading more!

It starts out with the slaughter of three people at a campground. Only one survivor, Reese, who of course is going to be the center of attention because how did he survive. Reese's girlfriend was one of the ones killed and so of course he is the prime suspect. Detective Greyeyes doesn't really think that he had anything to do with it but she can't be sure.

It really makes no sense, but one of the old guys who ends up in the drunk tank all the time who is called Crazyhorse tells the detective what he thinks is going on there and that she needs to talk to Chief Kinew about it. She is not sure she believes a lot of what the old guys tells her but when she was out at the campgrounds she could feel that something was off.

The Chief wants nothing to do with it because it's tainted land, he wouldn't even talk to her in his office for fear of bringing the negative thing to it. He finally tells her what he thinks is going on but of course she doesn't believe it, it's just to outlandish. Some sort of supernatural element killing people. He tells her all the things that they have kept record of that this isn't the first time the land has killed.

Then some strange things starts to happen the the detective as well as Reese and more people loosely connected the campground are being slaughtered and the detective has to figure things out fast even if she doesn't want to believe in the folklore of her ancestors.

So I danced around what exactly it is out in the campgrounds as I don't want to spoil it but it is based on Native American folklore and I found it enjoyable as I haven't read a lot of books with this in it. I have heard of it and seen movies, etc just not really read anything so it was kind of cool. The book was a bit gore at times so know that going into it.

I can't say that I was a huge fan of Reese, but I did really like detective Maria Greyeyes. I also really liked Crazyhorse he was pretty funny at times.  The ending left me scratching my head a bit and I am not a huge fan of open endings unless I know there will be another one. The ending reminded me of the way they do a lot of horror movies and leaves you wondering if it's really over or not. Just was never a fan of that.

Overall, I really enjoyed this one and if you love horror with supernatural elements then I really think you will enjoy this one!
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Hannah Sturm
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! Couldn't put it down!
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024
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I don't typically read scary books but I could not put this one down. I just had to know the next twist and turn all the way to the end. This was my first read of J.H. Moncrief's and I'm excited there are many more.
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Jg Faherty
5.0 out of 5 stars Frightening and Suspensful - You can't put it down
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2021
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THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE by J.H. Moncrieff

A haunted campsite. But is it ghosts, or something worse?

When Reese Wallace decides to go camping at Strong Lake with some friends, his life begins a terrifying descent into evil and madness. Disembodied voices speak to him and he wakes up to find everyone butchered. The detective on the case, Maria Greyeyes, first considers him a suspect but later comes to believe in his innocence, even as the body count starts to rise in her small Canadian town. Soon she is suffering from the same nightmares that are plaguing Reese, intensely real visions of a Native American tribe that once lived at Strong Lake, only to be wiped out by settlers.

The tribe that lives on a nearby reservation refuses to help her, claiming the whole campground area is haunted by an ancient evil. Soon Greyeyes and Reese are faced with the impossible: a mythical beast has come to life and is possessing a human in order to carry out its bloody acts. It becomes a race against time as Greyeyes, Reese, and a police chief from the reservation join forces to stop the killing. Except in order to do so, they must put themselves directly in harm’s way, and perhaps lose their souls in the process.

With THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE, Moncrieff adds another spine-tingling and suspenseful tale to her rapidly growing library of frighteningly good books. She keeps you guessing right to the very end who/what is responsible for the murders at Strong Lake, and at the same time she effortlessly weaves in a tragic second tale of a Native American tribe wiped out by callous settlers. What makes the story doubly chilling is that the historical elements are all based on real occurrences, as are the descriptions of local reservation life. Often history is more awful than any fiction, and Moncrieff’s book will open your eyes to that fact besides keeping you up all night.
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