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Simon & Schuster
June 2017
On Sale: May 23, 2017
304 pages
ISBN: 1476755213
EAN: 9781476755212
Kindle: B01MG7HJYF
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The #1 internationally bestselling author of The Demonologist radically reimagines the origins of gothic literatureβs founding masterpiecesβFrankenstein, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Draculaβin a contemporary novel driven by relentless suspense and surprising emotion. This is the story of a man who may be the worldβs one real-life monster, and the only woman who has a chance of finding him. As a forensic psychiatrist at New Yorkβs leading institution of its kind, Dr. Lily Dominick has evaluated the mental states of some of the countryβs most dangerous psychotics. But the strangely compelling client she interviewed todayβa man with no name, accused of the most twisted crimeβstruck her as somehow different from the others, despite the two impossible claims he made. First, that he is more than two hundred years old and personally inspired Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker in creating the three novels of the nineteenth century that define the monstrous in the modern imagination. Second, that heβs Lilyβs father. To discover the truthβbehind her client, her motherβs death, herselfβDr. Dominick must embark on a journey that will threaten her career, her sanity, and ultimately her life. Fusing the page-turning tension of a first-rate thriller with a provocative take on where thrillers come from, The Only Child will keep you up until its last unforgettable revelation.
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