"Ever-intelligent horror novelist Monahan retells a true story...It's unfair to reveal here Monahan's reasonable yet supernatural answer. More artful, if less exciting, than Monahan's brainy bloodsucker operas—but all immensely satisfying."
Kirkus Reviews

"Monahan keeps a perfect feeling of the period…Altogether entertaining."
Gahan Wilson [Mr. Wilson is the fiendishly funny cartoonist who has appeared for decades in Playboy]

"'Edited" by novelist Brent Monahan…the story is so remarkable and well told that readers may not care. The final pages are especially moving, and offer a potent thesis for what we have come to refer to as poltergeist phenomena."
Douglas E. Winter Books

"Monahan's attention to historical detail to makes the early 19th century milieu credible. And his use of a 'classically educated' narrator avoids the need for recreating difficult period or regional language while still taking care to use appropriate language for the era. The reader is drawn easily into the story and to these characters and situations from the past. The actual cause and resolution of the supernatural disturbances seems quite contemporary, but historically acceptable. Like any good 'history' it reminds us that human frailty and evil have always been with us. Moreover it is a satisfyingly plausible resolution that, in retrospect, seems to have been there just waiting for the clever Mr. Monahan to connect the clues and show it to us.

"The physical book is small, well designed and illustrated with what one assumes to be "period" drawings, since no illustrator is credited. But then Brent Monahan denies credit for The Bell Witch's narrative, claiming only to be its "editor," one hopes he and his genuine editor, Gordon Van Gelder, will accept the accolades this small treasure of a book engenders. It quietly shows, once again, that story is still the essence of fiction."
Paula Guran, DarkEcho.com

"The Bell Witch is too compelling to put down, all the more so because of its real-life "X File" quality. Whether you believe or doubt the story, it will certainly enthrall you…and most likely keep you up at night, too."
Fangoria

Brent Monahan steeps us in a convincing recreation of a time nearly two centuries old. The author knows how to pick and depict just the right minutia to bring the historical backdrop to life without stifling us readers in a chorus of background noise." Ed Bryant, Locus

"I've never read anything so clever and yet so real. The Book of Common Dread is one of those rarer novels you actually believe could be true."
Thomas Monteleone, author of The Blood of the Lamb

"As if The Name of the Rose had been run through the imagination of Gaston Leroux. Brent Monahan has a fine baroque imagination and his tale moves with wit and speed."
Stephen Gallagher, author of Down River

"Easily the best addition to the vampire genre since Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire." Indianapolis Star

"The sort of well that Umberto Eco tapped The Name of the Rose…Brent Monahan delivers much more than gore."
Atlanta Journal & Constitution

"Monahan succeeds admirably at producing an intelligent page-turner and a vampire yarn with as much originality as you may reasonably expect at this point in the history of the subgenre." Booklist

"Satisfying…a charming period piece."
The Wall Street Journal

"Combines a compelling mystery with fascinating characters from the very top levels of society in 1899. Readers will find themselves enjoying the rich period atmosphere at least as much as the crime solving. A first-class yarn."
Booklist

"Vastly entertaining, with surprises and reverses at every turn."
Tampa Tribune & Times

"A leisurely intertwining of historical figures and events with fictional characters in what proves to be an entertaining whodunit. The banter among the likes of J.P. Morgan, Joseph Pulitzer, John D. Rockefeller, and other keeps a reader riveted to the page." Chicago Sun Times

"A fascinating peek into the past…A spirited hero, a clever killer, and rich period detail all add to the entertainment."
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

"Monahan's rich attention to detail and his genuinely unique character, the quietly annoying and tenacious LeBrun, make this novel an interesting read."
Rapport

"This ingenious novel raises Brent Monahan to the first rank of contemporary entertainers. The real Jekyl Island Club, its members, and many real events from that era are interwoven within a plot that could easily have taken place. Cleverly plotted and delightfully told, The Jekyl Island Club is suspenseful storytelling at its finest. "
eMall

"Historically accurate, sardonically observant…Monahan keeps the pace brisk and Le Brun's populist wit up front as he weaves a clever and socially conscious yarn." Providence Journal-Bulletin

"Monahan's engaging hero and meticulous attention to the history and style of the era make The Sceptred Isle Club a delightful meander through another time and place."
St. Petersburg Times

"Brent Monahan describes early twentieth century London with the same ease and immediacy he did late nineteenth century Georgia in The Jekyl Island Club. This is an engrossing read that will transport readers to an earlier time."
The Mystery Reader

"Monahan stokes the story with authentic period detail…and pulls everything together in spectacular fashion. An enthralling peek at mayhem among Manhattan's ruling class."
Publisher's Weekly

"Facts, artifacts, and personalities…are written into vivid life by Monahan's measured yet colorful prose."
San Antonio Express-News

"A locked-room mystery is always fun to read, especially when it is constructed as well as it is in THE MANHATTAN ISLAND CLUBS using places and people who actually lived during the time and setting of this book. Brent Monahan takes his audience behind the scenes of the so-called Gilded Age and shows that the period was corrupt and narcissistic. Readers will adore the brilliant hero who gets heart broken by a damsel in distress." Allreaders.com

"Vastly entertaining, with surprises and reverses at every turn."
Tampa Tribune Times

"Combines a compelling mystery with fascinating characters from the very top levels of society in 1899 America. Readers will find themselves enjoying the rich period atmosphere at least as much as the crime solving. A first-class yarn."
Booklist

"Monahan's rich attention to detail and his genuinely unique character, the quietly annoying and tenacious Le Brun, make this novel an interesting read."
Rapport

"Monahan keeps a perfect feeling of the period...Altogether entertaining."
Gahan Wilson, Playboy

"Utterly satisfying...A charming period mystery."
The Wall Street Journal

"Monahan's fifth series outing (after The St. Simons Island Club) offers a fascinating look at the birth of Caribbean tourism, revealing how well-to-do investors trampled the rights of the area's citizens."
Library Journal

"Monahan does a fine job of evoking the period, when the clip-clop of horse-drawn carriages can still be heard and the amid din of the newfangled automobiles. This is a mystery you read for the ambience."
Publisher's Weekly

"Armchair travelers will enjoy the history and lyrical descriptions of St. Lucia."
Kirkus Reviews

FIVE STARS! “Brent Monahan's ESCAPING BERLIN is a gripping, painful story about survival, courage, shame, and hope. [It’s] one of those books that starts simple and clean, with a hero seemingly possessed of a clear goal and a defined strategy, and then draws the reader deeper and deeper into a much more complex, morally ambiguous, and dramatic web full of painful choices and heartbreaking revelations.” IndieReader

“A gripping procedural from Monahan. His eye for the telling detail and the sobering truth ensures that this crime story never diminishes the historical crimes at the heart of the novel.” Booklife

“Monahan shapes his story with a great deal of skill and considerable, low-key eloquence…A smart and unexpectedly moving wartime drama.” Kirkus Reviews

“I loved Escaping Berlin. It operates on nearly as many levels as Moby Dick. Dying Nazi fortress Berlin is the perfect laboratory to investigate the existential question, ‘Is there ever a justification for sacrificing morality for survival?’”
Nick Heston, Hodder & Stoughton

“From an American author comes a thriller of survival in Berlin during World War II’s last breaths, filled with painstaking accuracy and deeply penetrating insights.”
Wolfgang Fassbender, Allgemeine Buchkritik