This “mesmerizing” novel about a crime at an elite music school
“calls to mind a David Lynch film” (The New York Times). Shy
piano teacher Maggie Blackburn has selflessly devoted her life and
career to her students at the Forest Park Conservatory of Music in an
affluent Connecticut suburb. Then a rape shakes the school’s refined
grounds. The violated young student, Brendan Bauer, is a timid
ex-seminarian. The perpetrator, Rolfe Christensen, is the newly
appointed and celebrated composer-in-residence who has dazzled the
faculty in ways Maggie could never have dreamed of. But when the
conservatory’s conspiracy to conceal the crime results in
Christensen’s murder, Bauer is suspected—and Maggie vows to find
the real killer. What Maggie soon discovers is that Christensen’s
reputation—as genius, manipulator, and sexual predator—had
preceded him, giving many people a reason to want him dead. But when
the murder of another colleague casts additional doubt on Bauer’s
innocence, Maggie’s labyrinthine hunt for a killer turns into more
than an investigation. Now it’s a liberating obsession with
secrets—hers included—as dark and twisted as the crimes
themselves. One of today’s most prolific and acclaimed literary
talents, Joyce Carol Oates is a National Book Award winner, a
four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a #1 New York
Times–bestselling author. As Elmore Leonard said, with her
psychological suspense novels written under the name Rosamond Smith,
“[she] could become the world’s Number One mystery writer
easily.”
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ISBN
9781504045162
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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