Haunted by the suicide of his friend, the true crime writer Julian Wells, Philip Anders starts to reread his books. And in their pages, he starts to glimpse a darkness that might drive a man to suicide. In an effort to understand Julian's death, Anders travels to Paris, revisiting the places that Julian used as the research and settings for his books. But even as he embarks on this personal quest, Anders is plagued by the memory of a woman the two men once knew. And he comes to wonder if her disappearance, long ago, may be the crime that drove his friend to take his own life...
Le célèbre romancier Julian Wells s'est tranché les veines dans une barque, au milieu de l'étang de sa propriété des Hamptons. Un suicide sans explication. Et quel est ce meurtre...
Et si ce suicide n'était pas le seul crime de Julian Wells ? Thomas H. Cook se révèle plus manipulateur que jamais dans ce roman où les mensonges entre amis et les desseins troubles tissent une toile d'une ambiguïté insoutenable.
In this Edgar Award finalist and “slow-burning, intricate” thriller, a professor falls for his wife all over again . . . while he stands trial for her murder (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
This intense novel follows Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, as he contends with a past he never thought much about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present.
A Dancer in the Dust is a gripping story of ill-fated love: one man’s love for an extraordinary woman, and one woman’s love for her troubled country. “Not since John Le Carré’s The Mission Song have I seen such a loving and ...
Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes's previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture.
Praise for Karin Fossum A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind. Jo Nesbo I always eagerly await a new novel from Karin Fossum. Ruth Rendell One of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers.
Written in vivid prose, this is at once a personal memoir of exploration (both external and internal) and a strangely heartening look at the radiance and optimism that may be found at the very heart of darkness.
Part history, part memoir, The Crime and the Silence is the journalist's account of these events: both the story of the massacre told through oral histories of survivors and witnesses, and a portrait of a Polish town coming to terms with ...
A True Story of Murder and Passion Thomas H. Cook. THE BREAK - CHATHAM HEART SCHOOL HILL AFFAIR THOMAS H.COOK THE CITY THOMAS H. COOK ... THE CRIME OF JULIAN WELLS THOMAS H.COOK ELENA THOMAS H.COOK Edgar Award - Winning kathan M EVIDENCE.