Shut Your Eyes Tight
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 509
- ISBN-13
- 9780307717917
- Type
- novel
About this book
Shut Your Eyes Tight is the second Dave Gurney novel, published in 2011 and again pulling the retired NYPD detective away from his quiet Catskills retirement into another puzzle-box murder investigation. At 509 pages, it continues the fair-play mystery structure and the quieter tension between Gurney's compulsion to keep working cases and Madeleine's wish for him to actually retire.
Key facts about Shut Your Eyes Tight
John Verdon wrote Shut Your Eyes Tight, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2011. The book has 509 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780307717917 to find the main one.
Shut Your Eyes Tight is book 2 of 8 in the Dave Gurney series. The series has 8 published books. However, the series starts with Think of a Number (2010). The Viper is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 18 July 2023.
That series sits on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, The Viper is the latest published John Verdon book on file, from 18 July 2023.
About John Verdon
John P. Verdon was born January 1, 1942, in the Bronx, New York, and educated at Regis High School and Fordham University. He spent his early career as a creative director in New York advertising agencies before retiring with his wife, Naomi, to a rural property in the western foothills of the Catskill Mountains, where he spent roughly a decade designing and building Shaker-style furniture. See every John Verdon book in order.
Its place in Dave Gurney
Shut Your Eyes Tight is book 2 in the Dave Gurney series. It follows Think of a Number. It is followed by Let the Devil Sleep. See the full Dave Gurney reading order.
Dave Gurney is a retired NYPD homicide detective -- one of the department's most celebrated, with an unmatched closure record -- who moves with his wife Madeleine to a farmhouse in rural upstate New York expecting a quiet retirement, and instead keeps getting pulled back into puzzle-box murder investigations that only his particular gift for pattern recognition can unravel. John Verdon launched the series in 2010 with Think of a Number , in which a stranger mails Gurney's old acquaintance a letter correctly…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780307717917
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780141048710
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780141960159