West Heart Kill

Zusatztext West Heart Kill is a brilliantly crafted crime novel that wears its influences on its sleeve, and in doing so manages at once to wrong-foot the reader and the genre entirely. A terrific, thrilling and novel debut Informationen zum Autor Dann McDorman Klappentext 'A diabolical locked-room mystery interspersed with a fascinating primer on the form' Chris Pavone 'Any respectable practitioner must follow the rules in making the truth - however skilfully camouflaged by lies - accessible to all' It's the Fourth of July weekend at the prestigious West Heart country club. Gathered for cocktails on the first evening are just some of the guests: the club president, the treasurer and his pregnant wife, the snooping school boy, the bereaved father, the taciturn caretaker, the prospective member, the private detective... And there will also be a body.And a fiendish mystery to solve.But everything else is all to play for.And you are about to find out that you have a role to play in this mystery too.. West Heart Kill is an outrageously original and imaginative murder mystery that is both a love letter to the greats of classic crime fiction and a fiendishly brilliant puzzle the likes of which you will never have read before. Vorwort 'Every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth' An outrageously original debut novel and a fiendishly brilliant puzzle the likes of which you will never have read before. Zusammenfassung 'A diabolical locked-room mystery interspersed with a fascinating primer on the form' Chris Pavone 'Any respectable practitioner must follow the rules in making the truth - however skilfully camouflaged by lies - accessible to all' It's the Fourth of July weekend at the prestigious West Heart country club. Gathered for cocktails on the first evening are just some of the guests: the club president, the treasurer and his pregnant wife, the snooping school boy, the bereaved father, the taciturn caretaker, the prospective member, the private detective... And there will also be a body.And a fiendish mystery to solve.But everything else is all to play for.And you are about to find out that you have a role to play in this mystery too.. West Heart Kill is an outrageously original and imaginative murder mystery that is both a love letter to the greats of classic crime fiction and a fiendishly brilliant puzzle the likes of which you will never have read before....

West Heart Kill is a brilliantly crafted crime novel that wears its influences on its sleeve, and in doing so manages at once to wrong-foot the reader and the genre entirely. A terrific, thrilling and novel debut

Préface
'Every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth' An outrageously original debut novel and a fiendishly brilliant puzzle the likes of which you will never have read before.

Auteur
Dann McDorman is an Emmy-nominated TV news producer who is currently the Executive Producer of 'The Beat with Ari Melber' on MSNBC. He's also worked as a newspaper reporter, book reviewer, management consultant, typist, and cabinet maker. He has a degree in history from Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children. West Heart Kill is his debut novel.

Texte du rabat

'Engrossing, surprising, clever, genre-bending' Val McDermid 'A remarkable novel by a major talent...entirely unique' Stuart Turton 'Any respectable practitioner must follow the rules in making the truth - however skilfully camouflaged by lies - accessible to all' It's the Fourth of July weekend at the prestigious West Heart country club. Gathered for cocktails on the first evening are just some of the guests: the club president, the treasurer and his pregnant wife, the snooping school boy, the bereaved father, the taciturn caretaker, the prospective member, the private detective... And there will also be a body. And a fiendish mystery to solve. But everything else is all to play for. And you are about to find out that *you* have a role to play in this mystery too.. West Heart Kill is an outrageously original and imaginative murder mystery that is both a love letter to the greats of classic crime fiction and a fiendishly brilliant puzzle the likes of which you will never have read before.