Three
an intricate thriller of deception and hidden identities
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A dark psychological thriller with a killer twist, that has topped the bestseller charts in its native Israel
*TRANSLATED BY MAN BOOKER WINNER JESSICA COHEN*
Three tells the stories of three women: Orna, a divorced single-mother looking for a new relationship; Emilia, a Latvian immigrant on a spiritual search; and Ella, married and mother of three, returning to University to write her thesis. All of them will meet the same man. His name is Gil. He won't tell them the whole truth about himself - but they don't tell him everything either.
Tense, twisted and surprising, Three is a daring new form of psychological thriller. It is a declaration of war against the normalisation of death and violence. Slowly but surely, you see the danger each woman walks into. What you won't see is the trap being laid - until it snaps shut.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mishani (the Avraham Avraham series) displays a superior gift for psychological suspense in this taut and twisty standalone. Orna Azran lives in Holon, Israel, with her nine-year-old son, Eran, and is still coming to terms with the end of her marriage to Ronen. A teacher, Orna works tirelessly to support her family and to help Eran, who is socially awkward, to weather the absence of his father; Ronen, who has moved to Nepal and remarried, can't even be relied upon to wish Eran a happy birthday. Orna finds a change of pace from her exhausting, self-sacrificing routine after she meets Gil on a dating website for divorced singles. Their relationship develops slowly, partly due to her own ambivalence about becoming intimate again, and partly because of increasingly troubling signs that Gil is not who he says he is. Things take an unexpectedly dark turn before veering in a direction few will anticipate, but which pays off in the end. Mishani imbues his flawed, plausibly-drawn characters with a deep melancholy, spinning the noirish elements into a deeply satisfying conclusion. Mishani demonstrates a real flair for literary crime fiction.
