The Tryst - Softcover

Dibdin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067172889X ISBN 13: 9780671728892

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1990

Synopsis

Psychiatrist Aileen Macklin finds herself unprofessionally and mysteriously drawn to a trying patient who has witnessed a murder and who now fears someone is trying to kill him

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Review

" 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 Observer
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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 Observer

"

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 Observer
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About the Author

Michael Dibdin was born in 1947. He went to school in Northern Ireland, and later to Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He lived in Seattle.After completing his first novel, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, in 1978, he spent four years in Italy teaching English at the University of Perugia. His second novel, A Rich Full Death, was published in 1986. It was followed by Ratking in 1988, which won the Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the year and introduced us to his Italian detective - Inspector Aurelio Zen. In 1989 The Tryst was published to great acclaim and was followed by Vendetta in 1990, the second story in the Zen series. Dirty Tricks was published in 1991. Inspector Zen made his third appearance in Cabal, which was published in 1992. The Dying of the Light, an Agatha Christie pastiche, was published in 1993. His fourth Zen novel, Dead Lagoon, was published the following year. His next novel, Dark Spectre, was published in 1995. Two more Zen novels followed: Cosi Fan Tutti, set in Naples, was published in 1996 and A Long Finish was published in 1998. Blood Rain, the seventh Zen novel, was published in 1999. Thanksgiving was published in 2000, with the eighth Zen, And Then You Die, appearing in 2002. Aurelio Zen returned in Medusa, in August 2003, and then again in Back to Bologna in 2005. His last novel, End Games, was published posthumously in July 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 067172889X
• ISBN 13: 9780671728892
• Binding: Paperback