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Knopf
March 2016
On Sale: March 8, 2016
416 pages
ISBN: 1101875593
EAN: 9781101875599
Kindle: B00ZNE459U
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A dark, riveting, beautifully written book—by “a
brilliant novelist,” according to Richard Bausch—that
combines noir and the gothic in a story about two families
entwined in their own unhappiness, with, at its heart, a
gruesome and unsolved murder
Late one
winter afternoon in upstate New York, George Clare comes
home to find his wife killed and their three-year-old
daughter alone—for how many hours?—in her room across the
hall. He had recently, begrudgingly, taken a position at a
nearby private college (far too expensive for local kids to
attend) teaching art history, and moved his family into a
tight-knit, impoverished town that has lately been
discovered by wealthy outsiders in search of a rural
idyll.
George is of course the immediate
suspect—the question of his guilt echoing in a story shot
through with secrets both personal and professional. While
his parents rescue him from suspicion, a persistent cop is
stymied at every turn in proving Clare a heartless murderer.
And three teenage brothers (orphaned by tragic
circumstances) find themselves entangled in this mystery,
not least because the Clares had moved into their childhood
home, a once-thriving dairy farm. The pall of death is
ongoing, and relentless; behind one crime there are others,
and more than twenty years will pass before a hard kind of
justice is finally served.
A rich and complex
portrait of a psychopath and a marriage, this is also an
astute study of the various taints that can scar very
different families, and even an entire community. Elizabeth
Brundage is an essential talent who has given us a true
modern classic.
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