Paper Ghosts

Heaberlin, Julia

ISBN 10: 0718181344 / ISBN 13: 9780718181345

Published by Michael Joseph Ltd / Penguin Group / Random House, London, 2018

About this Item

First edition, first impression with '001' on copyright page. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, IN HEAVY BLACK PEN, ON 'EXCLUSIVE SIGNED EDITION' PAGE. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£12.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 351pp, illustrated endpapers. Carl Louis Feldman is an old man who once took photographs. That was before he was tried for murder and acquitted. Before dementia and his admission to a Texas care facility. Now his daughter has come to see him, to take him on a trip. Only she's not his daughter, and, if she has her way, he's not coming back. Because Carl's past has finally caught up with him. The woman driving the car is convinced he's guilty, and that he's killed other young women. Including her sister Rachel. Now they're driving across Texas, following his photographs, his clues, his crimes. To see if he remembers any of it. To discover what happened to Rachel. Has Carl truly forgotten what he did or is he just pretending? Perhaps he's guilty of nothing and she's the liar. Either way, in driving him into the Texan badlands she's taking a terrible risk. For if Carl really is a serial killer, she's alone in the most dangerous place of all . Quite scarce signed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paper Ghosts
• Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd / Penguin Group / Random House, London
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718181344
• ISBN 13: 9780718181345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

THE CHILLING NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACK-EYED SUSANS

THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME THRILLER OF THE MONTH

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My Sister disappeared.

I know who took her.

Now I've taken him.

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Carl Louis Feldman is an old man who once took photographs.

That was before he was tried for murder and acquitted.

Before dementia and his admission to a Texas care facility.

Now his daughter has come to see him, to take him on a trip.

Only she's not his daughter, and, if she has her way, he's not coming back . . .

Because Carl's past has finally caught up with him. The woman driving the car is convinced he's guilty, and that he's killed other young women. Including her sister Rachel.

Now they're driving across Texas, following his photographs, his clues, his crimes. To see if he remembers any of it. To discover what happened to Rachel.

Has Carl truly forgotten what he did or is he just pretending? Perhaps he's guilty of nothing and she's the liar. Either way, in driving him into the Texan badlands she's taking a terrible risk.

For if Carl really is a serial killer, she's alone in the most dangerous place of all . . .

'Utterly compelling . . . the writing is mesmeric' Ali Land, Sunday Times bestselling author of Good Me Bad Me

'This book haunted me . . . The writing is beautiful and chilling, laced with a subtle dark humour, and the multiple twists build to a perfect icy shiver of an ending. I loved it!' C J Tudor, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man

'Strong characterisation, haunting images, a wonderful sense of place' Guardian

'A rich hybrid work that's at once a zany dialogue-propelled town-hander, a murder mystery, a road trip, a pair of psychological case studies and a meditation on photography' Sunday Times Paperback Round Up

'My crime novel of 2018. It's a stunning page turner of a book which kept me gripped throughout. It's a book that has stayed with me beyond the last chapter and I'm recommending it to everyone' Jo Jakeman, author of Sticks and Stones

About the Author

Julia Heaberlin is an award-winning journalist. She has also edited numerous real-life thriller stories, including a series on the perplexing and tragic murders of girls buried in the Mexican desert and another on domestic violence. She lives with her husband and son in Texas.

Her previous novel, Black-Eyed Susans, was a Sunday Times Number Two bestseller and a Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club selection as well as Waterstones Thriller of the Month.