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Twenty years ago a group of students gathered to celebrate their daring and their freedom at an exclusive college party. Something terrible happened there. A young woman was abased and destroyed. For most the memories are buried until a respected neighbourhood priest is found brutally killed, his death connected with heroin and sordid sex games. For washed out journalist Nick Stella this could be the chance he's been waiting for to hit the big time again. As his investigation gathers momentum, however, so too does his apparent complicity. He is no longer reporting on this story - he's a part of it. This is Thomas Harris meets Iain Banks. A taut, page- turning revenge thriller with the icy cool of a cult favourite.
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Richard Montanari combines some unusual ingredients (the ethnic sociology of Cleveland, Ohio; the poetry of T.S. Eliot; the eccentricities of e-mail and chat rooms) with some of the more familiar elements of genre fiction (the hungry journalist who lucks into a good story; a series of current crimes linked to an old atrocity) to excellent effect in The Violet Hour. Writer Nicky Stella--besieged by debts and responsibilities of his own--tries to save his career by finding out why poetry students who went to a party at Case Western Reserve University 20 years ago are suddenly dying in very nasty ways. With its eclectic mixture of new technologies and classical murder mystery plot, The Violet Hour is a sleek and dark story of delayed revenge. Montanari's well-received and equally chilling first thriller, Deviant Way, is available in paperback. --Dick Adler
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"Consistently surprising . . . Montanari keeps the reader deliciously off balance throughout, letting the novel accrue horrors and deft misdirections, right until its gory end." (Publishers Weekly)
"The novel is, like the nameless killer's victims, well executed. And like the killer himself, fiendishly twisted. A real page turner." (Booklist)
"The novel is, like the nameless killer's victims, well executed. And like the killer himself, fiendishly twisted. A real page turner." (Booklist)
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0140269223
- ISBN 13 9780140269222
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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