The Cure

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE

Detective Inspector Alison Raines is a woman dedicated to the job, that job being to protect her city and to speak for the dead. Her uncomplicated world is coming to an end with a cancer diagnosis that will cut short a life that revolved around work and little else.

Her answer to rapidly approaching finish line is to tie up the cases that no one believes are murders but her gut tells her otherwise. Sure that not every accidental death is what it seems, but with her condition rapidly deteriorating and her medication regiment taking its toll on her ability to think clearly, those around her have come to question a judgement previously untainted.

With a fiercely loyal partner that only ever wanted to learn from her at her side and a rational scientist by his, Raines is about to enter a labyrinth of dark supernatural terror that defies belief.

Raines is forced to open herself to the friends that she never knew she had and to the fact that perhaps she never knew as much as she previously thought about the criminal world that existed around her. With her own time running out she will be faced with the ultimate life and death decision.

Sometimes the world needs a hero, sometimes it needs a monster.

SEQUEL COMING JULY 15th 2025

Selected other works by Matt Drabble

ABRA-CADAVER - The 2017 Readers Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Horror Fiction. Winner of a prestigious Indie Book of the Day Award, a 2015 Kindle Book Review Award Finalist and is the 2016 Book Excellence Awards winner for Horror Fiction.

THE GATED TRILOGY - Winner of multiple achievements including - a UK & US Horror Chart Top 10 best seller, 2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Horror Fiction & the 2014 Full Moon Awards Horror Book of the year.

THE ASYLUM TRILOGY - an Amazon US Horror Chart #5 best seller, voted #5 on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 Books of 2013, a 2014 Readers Favorite Gold Medal winner & the 2016 Readers Favorite Silver Medal winner for Anthology Fiction.

THE LAST RESORT - The 2019 Readers Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Horror Fiction & The 2019 Kindle Book Review's Winner for Horror/Suspense.

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Great story

It’s really a good book I’m just not a fan of the virtual voice. Besides that it was great.

Many characters developed

I liked the developed characters and the storyline didn't leave threads hanging. I liked that there was no smut which is hard to find in vampire fiction. The evil of the vampires didn't take over the whole story. The only thing that came up short was the AI narrator which mispronounced a few words and sometimes it was hard to know which character was speaking or thinking.

Very fun listen

Always been a monster/creature feature fan so this author is my cup of tea!

well put together, and well thought out

If not for computer narration, it would've been a perfect 5. For this particular genre, this story is a 5.

A captivating story

The writer has a gift for storytelling. Well written and entertaining. The AI narrator was a bit of a drag, but didn’t kill the experience. Overall, a fun read. This is why I try fellow indie authors.