A review by pacardullo
The Auctioneer by Ed Gorman, Joan Samson

3.5

This one was OK but just did not quite work for me. I did not mind the "slow burn" nature of it, nor the underplayed horror aspects. It was primarily that it felt repetitive. It did not feel like a slow ramping-up of the actions of the auctioneer. Everything just-sort-of-happened.
That said, your mileage may vary. There are those who feel that this is one of the best, scariest novels of the 1970s. I am just not one of them.