Description
When Adam Woods takes a job as assistant to the reclusive bestselling author Gordon Crace, he unearths a secret that takes him from the dank canals of Venice back to England, and his own murky past.What follows is a deadly game of cat and mouse, involving deception, blackmail and the cold lust for fame. But it is not until Adam returns to venice and the two men confront each other that it transpires all is not as it appears to be ...
'A clever, taut, gothic black romance - worthy of Highsmith herself.' - Peter Miller, The Times
A crumbling Venetian palazzo makes a suitable backdrop to Andrew Wilson's creeepy thriller ... a clever, very well-composed story, with some disturbing twists.'
- Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
'An extraordinary work of imaginative genius, meshing Dickens's gothic atmosphere with Hitchcock's suspenseful creepiness.'
- Michael Collins, Washington Post ISBN:9781847670847
