Bestselling author Elizabeth Brundage discusses a range of topics in this interview that informed her writing of A Stranger Like You, which is now available in paperback. Check out Part II next week!
Deborah Cloyed’s debut novel, The Summer We Came to Life, is a beautiful story that centers around Samantha Wheland and her best friends of two generations. The relationship between the characters is so vivid that it feels as if the author drew from her own real-life experiences to capture such realism.
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Sarah Rachel Egelman
In five run-down cottages on a Florida barrier island called Happiness Key, five women have formed unlikely but sincere friendships. Tracy Deloche owns the property where she lives with Wanda, Wanda's daughter Maggie, Alice and her granddaughter, and Jayna and her husband. Though all are from different places and at different stages in life, the connection they share keeps them sane, makes them happy, and even saves their lives. Read More
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A group of women form an unlikely friendship as they search for love and happiness along the Florida coast.
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A group of women form an unlikely friendship as they search for love and happiness along the Florida coast.
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Usha Rao
Richard Harvell's debut novel, THE BELLS, is set in 18th-century Europe and tells the story of a gifted opera singer, Moses Froben, whose extraordinary musical abilities are both a gift and a curse. Music shapes Moses's life, raising him to the heights of public acclaim while crushing his chances of finding love and leading a normal life.
Harvell has put together a solid debut effort, a romantic tragedy that is engaging, informative and operatic in scope.
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Richard Harvell's debut novel follows the life of Moses Froben, from his childhood in a rustic Swiss village to his rise to stardom on Austria's opera scene during the 18th century.
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Richard Harvell's debut novel follows the life of Moses Froben, from his childhood in a rustic Swiss village to his rise to stardom on Austria's opera scene during the 18th century.
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Born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, Moses Froben and his deaf and mute mother ring the beautiful church bells each day. The townspeople assume Moses is also deaf, but shaped by the glorious music of the bells, he actually possesses a singular sense of hearing that makes him privy to any number of sins --- and puts him in grave danger. Moses finds refuge in a monastery’s choir and becomes its star singer, but he falls under the power of a man who will do anything to preserve Moses’ angelic voice forever.
In this letter to his son, Moses recounts his life as a novice monk, the power and beauty of the music he loves, and a story of forbidden love.
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Joe Hartlaub
Nordic crime fiction is all the rage now, which I find puzzling. What took so long? The occasional example that would trickle out B.L. (Before Larsson) always seemed to be excellent, whether it was a police procedural such as THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN or a psychological thriller on the order of SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW.
If THE HYPNOTIST doesn't find its way onto every reader's "Best Of" list by the end of the year, it will only be because not everyone read it.
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In this spellbinding international bestseller, a murder leaves only one route to the killer.
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In this spellbinding international bestseller, a murder leaves only one route to the killer.
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Fifteen-year-old Josef Ek lies in a hospital bed, his body covered in countless knife wounds. He has survived a gruesome triple murder that took the lives of his parents and his little sister. In deep shock, he is the sole living witness to the crime. Desperate for information and sure that the killer is out for more blood, Detective Inspector Joona Linna opts for a risky route of interrogation: hypnotism. It’s the only way to discover what the young victim saw.
Joona lures Dr. Erik Maria Bark to the case, despite the doctor’s controversial reputation. It’s the sort of work Erik has sworn he would never do again. At the pinnacle of his career as a psychotherapist, Eric made breakthrough progress with severely traumatized patients --- until one patient’s revelations went too far. Breaking his vow to abandon hypnosis, he now begins to probe Josef’s memories, unleashing a terrifying chain of events that makes his own family the target of lethal vengeance.
Unfolding against the backdrop of Sweden’s haunting landscapes, The Hypnotist marks the American debut of a mesmerizing thriller that has topped bestseller lists throughout Europe. Taking the genre to new heights, each chapter delivers a heart-stopping turn in a world where the mind may be the deadliest weapon.
The questions and discussion topics that follow are designed to enhance your reading of Lars Kepler’s The Hypnotist. We hope they will enrich your experience as you explore this provocative novel.
