Paper Ghosts
The unputdownable chilling thriller from The Sunday Times bestselling author of Black Eyed Susans
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3.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
The unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans.
'Gripping' The Times
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Long ago, Carl Feldman was acquitted of murder.
Now he's an old man, living alone with his fading memories.
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 . . .
This woman is sure Carl's a murderer, and that he's killed others - including her sister Rachel.
And she will stop at nothing to find out the truth.
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'Wonderful . . . creepy . . . a work of art' Sunday Express
'A beautifully written and extraordinary book' Sophie Hannah
'Strong characterisation, haunting images, a wonderful sense of place . . . well worth the read' Guardian
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The unnamed 24-year-old narrator of this artful and elegiac psychological thriller set in Texas from Heaberlin (Black-Eyed Susans) has spent every moment since her older sister, Rachel, vanished 12 years earlier investigating what happened. Her primary suspect is 61-year-old documentary photographer Carl Louis Feldman, who was once tried for a girl's murder and whose photos she can link to 10 missing girls; Carl suffers from dementia, though, and claims not to remember his past. Undaunted, the young woman springs the artist from his state-sponsored halfway house by posing as his long-lost daughter and takes him on a road trip designed to unlock his secrets and bring closure to his victims' families, which offers some surprisingly comic moments. The author wields words like weapons, with each one chosen to heighten tension, underscore emotion, or foreshadow doom. Keen character work further distinguishes the tale; neither Carl nor the narrator is entirely good, reliable, or sane, adding texture and profundity to an already riveting relationship. Heaberlin brilliantly combines travelogue with a heartbreaking portrait of the damage done by childhood trauma.
