Mr. LeMaster’s fourth offering, Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, Time Stops, Time Stops, is a horror story of the first order that is sure to have fans of horror fiction turning pages until late into the night.  Centered around the evil imbued into a single object, LeMaster’s tight prose and easy pace keeps the reader in the story.  Apprehension builds with anxiety as characters are thrown out of their own times into one of dreadfulness and terror.  The small town of Pineville may be a quaint little berg, but sitting at its core is a house with a history shrouded in mystery.  The house and the grandfather clock belonged to the town’s civil war era general – Elijah Beauregard, who had built the house.  However, a house of beauty can become a place of carnage as the eras go by.  The townsfolk would do well to remember the history associated with the house, but the desire for financial reward is too much for some to resist and the general’s house is sold again and again – always with the highest of hopes and the most devastating of outcomes.

With excellent use of juxtaposition of time and action, LeMaster’s storytelling has the reader totally engrossed in the work and turns on the movie in your head quickly and with sharp clarity and focus.  LeMaster has penned three previous works:  They Say I Shake a Little, The Parkinson Photographer’s Big Book of Butterflies, and The American Gator.  This, his latest foray into the literary world, is a true page-turner of the first order.  With realistic characters that suck you into the action of the story with a strong emotional connection, the story will have you wincing and twisting as you hope your character is able to escape the trap of both space set by Elijah Beauregard.  Before the end of the second page death and damnation set the pace pulling the reader deeper and deeper into Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, Time Stops, Time Stops.  David LeMaster is an author who needs to be on the must read list.

• 5 out of 5 stars! Dr. Nikki