This book keeps me on the edge of my seat. This is one of those books that you would not want to put down. Ever end of the chapter would leave you wanting to read the next page until the very end. The plot is unique and unpredictable. I've been tempted to skip to last page just to know how this would turn out. It's so good! I wish more people would read it.

Professor Thomas Huston is revered by his students and colleagues and can also boast of a successful literary stardom but one evening will change everything. His wife and young children are found brutally murdered and Professor Huston is on the run with all signs pointing to him as the attacker.

For the small town it’s hard to believe that someone who seemingly was at the top of their career could harbor such darkness. What made him snap? Sargent Ryan DeMarco doesn’t think that Huston was capable of such an act but it’s hard to establish his innocence when he’s out in the wind.

Sgt. DeMarco has known Huston for quite some time and actually considers him a friend. He doesn’t think his judgement is clouded by that but as he interviews students and co-workers of Huston he finds there’s a lot about the professor that he didn’t know about. In particular the new manuscript that has Huston visiting strip clubs and looking for a dancer as his reference point for his new novel.

There is an interesting balance between the two main characters of Huston and DeMarco. At one time DeMarco also seemed to have it all but now spends a lot of his time watching his estranged wife meeting up with men, drinking too much and often bickering with his superior.

Some of the writing is very descriptive and easily transports you to a cold winter landscape. And, just like DeMarco you want to believe Huston is innocent so the suspense builds as you try to figure out what happened. This was a good thriller despite even if Sgt. DeMarco sometimes was a bit too much of the stereotypical cop who is burnout and makes questionable decisions.

When Thomas Huston’s seemingly perfect family is found brutally murdered in their home, his disappearance leads Sergeant DeMarco to believe he may be the prime suspect. But what lead the college professor and best-selling author to such a horrendous act of violence?

I was interested when I read the synopsis and thought the book started out strong. However towards the middle the pace slowed and dragged on for me. While the writing is great, I found the premise lacking the thrilling mystery I was expecting.

**Thank you to NetGalley, Sourcebooks Landmark, and Randall Silvis for the opportunity to read Two Days Gone. It was my pleasure to write an honest review.**

I received a free copy of this book, from the publisher and author, via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the publisher, Sourcebooks Landmark, the author, Randall Silvis, and NetGalley.

A well respected college professor and best selling author's family is found brutally murdered and the professor, the only suspect has vanished. What happened? Why did he snap? Is there more to the murders than meets the eye? Leading the investigation is Detective DeMarco, a friend of the professor and source for his novels. The detective knew that the professor was working on a new novel. Did this novel become reality? Did his research for the novel take him too far?

Told in the perspective of both the professor and the detective, the reader follows a man on the run while the other is trying to catch him.

The beginning of this novel is fast paced and gripping. Around the middle the novel seems to slow, yet not completely losing the reader. Towards the end the novel picks up again, leaving the reader shocked at the outcome.

Randall Silvis does an amazing job at keeping the reader guessing as to whether the professor killed his family or not, until the entire case is laid out. The professors grief is shown through his actions through out the novel. Every action he takes can be related to a different stage of his grief. Detective DeMarco, in his own way and for his own reasons, is grieving as well. These two characters have been developed completely, while others are glanced over.

This novel is a gripping, emotional roller coaster for the reader.

A college professor is accused of murdering his whole family. His wife and children are found brutally murdered in their own home. The professor is missing.

What a great read this was. I liked the authors style of in writing this story.

Two Days Gone is a fantastic novel full of suspense, twists and turns and well developed characters. I truly enjoyed losing myself in this wonderful story.

I really loved this book and would highly recommend it. I wasn't aware when I came across it that the author lives and teaches locally. That was intriguing enough, but he also based the novel in the same area. There was just something so neat about recognizing the bars and places mentioned, they're the same establishments I've visited! He described the city perfectly, a "season of surliness prevails" during the six months of bleak gray.

While the personal touch added something extra, that's not the reason I rated this book five stars. It's perhaps the most literary mystery novel I've read lately. Beautifully and intelligently written, it deserves each one of those five stars. I usually burn through books in a day or less, but I savored this one. It's not a short read and not one to rush through.

Author Thomas Huston is very well known in the small town he teaches in. To his students, he's a supportive and well-liked professor to look up to. To many others around the world, he's an amazing author. To his wife and kids, he's the perfect husband and father... until they're dead. His wife and three children are murdered, and he's fled the scene. He's led a seemingly admirable and successful life. What could possibly drive him to murder?

Sergeant Ryan DeMarco doesn't have the perfect life anymore either. Once happy and in love, tragedy has touched him as well. Now he must chase Huston, a man he considered a friend. He's having a hard time wrapping his mind around the idea that Huston is the only suspect in the murder of his entire family and is now on the run. He starts to pour over Huston's notes for his novel in progress, hoping to find clues hidden in the thoughts the author scribbled down. He begins to find out surprising things about his friend that seem very suspicious... but does that make the man a murderer?

I received a copy of this book from Net Galley and Landmarks, thank you! My review is honest and unbiased.

I only read about a chapter of this one, and then unfortunately ran out of time before it expired.

I really enjoy a mystery page-turner. This one was not one for me...it was a little disappointing. Thanks for the ARC copy!

With a really strong start, that progressively evolves into a somehwat different pace, this was an engaging story nonetheless. A page-turner that has the reader on edge at all times.

“Two Days Gone” by Randall Silvis is a hauntingly beautiful novel.

Summary:-Thomas Huston, a beloved professor and bestselling author, is something of a local hero in the small Pennsylvania college town where he lives and teaches. So when Huston's wife and children are found brutally murdered in their home, the community reacts with shock and anger. Huston has also mysteriously disappeared, and suddenly, the town celebrity is suspect number one.

Sergeant Ryan DeMarco has secrets of his own, but he can't believe that a man he admired, a man he had considered a friend, could be capable of such a crime. Hoping to glean clues about Huston's mind-set, DeMarco delves into the professor's notes on his novel-in-progress. Soon, DeMarco doesn't know who to trust—and the more he uncovers about Huston's secret life, the more treacherous his search becomes.

My thoughts:- A wonderful work of art. Randall Silvis has written it so well. He has deftly portrayed how a writer’s mind works. As if he is a character himself, feeling whatever he feels, doing whatever he does and thinks.

"Thomas Huston, a beloved college professor and bestselling author, and Ryan DeMarco, a police sergeant whose troubled personal life has ravaged his career. on the surface, Huston and DeMarco could hardly be more different...and the eventsthat drew them together could hardly be more chilling."
I have never read a book like this before. Superb characterization of Thomas Huston and Sergeant DeMarco. The author has poured out a writer’s psychology through Huston’s character.

Drawbacks and ratings:- The most important drawback I felt that the monotony of Huston’s character when he was in a stupor after the accident happened in his house. His movement were sloth to make me feel bored. However what can I expect from a man who just had to kill his own baby? May be I am being insensitive towards him.

And one more mistake I found out that in one place it has been printed that “Riders to the Sea” was written by William Synge. It should be John Millington Synge. I hope that during the book’s publication it has been checked.

Overall not a bad experience. 4stars granted.

Thanksgiving:- Thank to the author and the publisher for the ARC I received.

Two Days Gone by Randall Silvis is what, in my opinion, a mystery novel should be (up there with Tana French's work). Did Thomas Huston, a writing teacher, murder his wife and three children? Detective DeMarco works hard to get into Huston's mind.

"DeMarco imagined what it must have been like for a man six feet tall to lay huddled in that tiny space. The earthen walls were indented with a hundred heel marks, half-moons gouged into the soil. DeMarco put his fingers to one of the heel marks. He rolled and turned and pushed at these walls through the longest night of his life. But the soil was cold. Huston had fled at least an hour earlier, leaving nothing behind but a damp depression filled with his scent. ... But the sight of that hole filled DeMarco with grief. A brilliant man reduced to a beast."

Once Huston is located (far into the book), things get complicated quickly. Silvis takes the time to show us the humanity, personality, and motivations of everyone involved.

The perfect family. The perfect house. The perfect life. All gone now.

What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco, after the wife and children of beloved college professor and bestselling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home. Huston himself has disappeared and so is immediately cast as the prime suspect.
I suspect readers will either love to hate this book. I thoroughly enjoyed it, as it was a book that added that extra dimension to a police investigation, a literary perspective with lots of threads running through it. It was a deep look into the psychological profile of the Professor but also of Ryan De Marco, who struggles constantly against the evidence and his own perspective on his friend. There were moments of pathos as Thomas Huston falls apart, trying desperately to cling onto to his sanity. A read you’ll think about long after you’ve finished

This book sucks you in from the very beginning and while the whole book was a good read, it is also perversely dark and very depressing. The writing was very well done and even though I like how everything was nicely wrapped up at the end, I wasn't sad to say goodbye to this story.

I loved this book. I was not able to put it down. It's about a well known author and professor Thomas Huston. His family is dead and Huston is missing. The cop assigned is also his friend. He sets out to try and solve the mystery. Very well written. One of the better mysteries I've read in a while.

Thank you Netgallery for the opportunity to read Two Days Gone. Unfortunately I didn't finish this book.

Do not start this book if you have to work the next day. It pulls you in and does not let go. Highly recommended.

Great read! The author tells a great story. I look forward to reading more from this same author.

I'm so glad I stuck with this book and finished it. In the beginning, I almost put it away for being too gloomy for a January read. I usually can't read anything with children being hurt, so I was relieved to see this story was about so much more than the murder of a family. A lot of time was well-spent on the writing process of Tom Huston as a means of the protagonist DeMarco's attempts to solve the crime, but not in the usual pretentious ways. The story wrapped up in a way that I appreciated without feeling overly optimistic. Even the twist surprised me, and I usually can spot a twist. This book required a lot of patience on my part, but I'm glad to say I made it to the satisfying end.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

After reading the summary of Two Days Gone by Randall Silvis, I was intrigued and eager to sink into it. Once I started to read it…my enthusiasm dwindled. The book is about a well-liked professor and bestselling author, Thomas Huston, who is on the run and being accused of brutally killing his wife and three children. The investigator in charge of the case, Sgt. Ryan DeMarco is an acquaintance and fan of Huston. DeMarco tries to connect the dots and figure out if Huston actually committed the crime (while fighting his own demons). The story starts off great, but as it continues the plot just kind of fizzles and the pace moves much too slow for me. I believe the book is well-written (the man can write), but I was unable to connect with any of the characters and just did not get into it the way I like.