Summary
In this fascinating psychological neo-noir mystery, a notorious late 19th-century photograph provides the key to a contemporary murder. In 1882, the young Lou Andreas-Salome, writer, psychoanalyst and femme fatale, appears with Friedrich Nietzche and another man in a bizarre photograph taken in Luzern, Switzerland. Over thirty years later, an intense art student in Freud’s Vienna presents Lou Salome with his own drawing based on the infamous photograph. In the present day, Tess Berenson, a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780727894519 |
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| ISBN-10: | 072789451X |
| Author: | William Bayer |
| Publisher: | Canongate Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Severn House Large Print Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 488g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 148mm |
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“In this clever psychological thriller, Bayer chillingly and skillfully depicts the divide between good and evil. Suggest to Thomas Harris and Michael Connelly devotees.”
“Bayer keeps the suspense high as he artfully toggles among story lines and thoughtfully develops his characters” Publishers Weekly “Edgar winner Bayer (The Dream of Broken Horses, 2002, etc.) continues his romance with psychoanalysis with a riff on Lou Andreas-Salome’s persona as analyst and femme fatale … Nazis, sadomasochism, and psychoanalysis always provide a heady mix, and a little murder thrown in pushes Bayer’s latest into the radioactive zone.” – Kirkus Reviews “In this clever psychological thriller, Bayer chillingly and skillfully depicts the divide between good and evil. Suggest to Thomas Harris and -Michael Connelly devotees.” Library Journal Starred Review
About The Author
William Bayer
William Bayer is the author of the Edgar Award?winning novel “Peregrine, ” which introduced NYPD detective Frank Janek, the central character of four subsequent thrillers, among them the New York Times bestseller Switch. Pattern Crimes was also a “New York Times” bestseller. More recently, under the pen name David Hunt, Bayer wrote two thrillers featuring color-blind photographer Kay Farrow: “The Magician’s Tale, ” which was a “New York Times” Notable Book of the Year and won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Mystery, and “Trick of Light.” Bayer lives in San Francisco with his wife, cookbook
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