Psychiatrist Aileen Macklin is called upon to deal with a disturbed youngster who has witnessed a murder. In spite of his squalid life, Aileen feels drawn to him and the discovery of his true identity provides a disturbing link with her own past and the man she did not marry. The author has also written "The Last Sherlock Holmes Story", "A Rich Full Death" and "Ratking".
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"Stunningly handled narrative. . . . Unnerving as rustling sheets in an unoccupied bed." --The Guardian
"Brings to the sudden-death genre a subtle humanism and to the mainstream novel a vivid and dramatic narrative gift." --Sunday Times [London] "An extraordinary performance, absorbing, tantalizing, concretely realized, often funny, more often genuinely menacing." --The Times (London) "Stunning originality, a true gift for drawing remarkable characters, and a real feeling for historical evocation." --Ruth Rendell "[A] searingly unusual novel." --The ObserverMichael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on to live in Oxford, England and Seattle, Washington. He was the author of eighteen novels, eleven of them in the popular Aurelio Zen series, including Ratking, which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, and Cabal, which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007.
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