The Poison Artist
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'I haven't read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon' Stephen King
Imagine an updated Vertigo: darker, more scary but just as hypnotically seductive. A dark psychological crime thriller for fans of Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island.
Selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club with Simon Mayo.
Toxicologist Caleb Maddox has two puzzles to solve. What connects the series of dead bodies found floating in San Francisco Bay? And why is Emmeline, the strange and beautiful woman he met in a secluded bar, so secretive about her past? One thing is certain: finding the the answers could be the last thing Caleb ever does.
Everyone is talking about The Poison Artist - a gripping psychological thriller:
'Incredibly suspenseful' Lee Child
'A magnificent, thoroughly unnerving psychological thriller' Justin Cronin
'I haven't read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon' Stephen King
'As dark and intoxicating as the bars where the mystery begins' Sunday Mirror
'As satisfying as it is deeply unsettling...highly recommended' Guardian
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This exquisite tale of obsession from Bram Stoker Award finalist Moore (Redheads) opens with Caleb Maddox, a toxicologist and pain researcher, looking in the mirror of a San Francisco hotel bathroom as he picks tiny shards of glass out of his bleeding forehead. A short time before, his live-in lover, now his ex-girlfriend, threw a tumbler in his face. "It was good glass. Murano crystal, maybe," from a set they had bought at Macy's just before she moved in a year earlier. Caleb later leaves the hotel and goes to a bar called the House of Shields, where he meets a mysterious absinthe-drinking woman, Emmeline, who mesmerizes him with a whisper and a titillating silken touch. Caleb's hard-drinking week-plus pursuit of Emmeline parallels the serial killings that he has been secretly investigating with his oldest and closest friend, medical examiner Henry Newcomb. Male bodies have been washing up in the bay with evidence of unspeakable torture. The scientific lore and postmortem techniques may be more than some readers want to know, but the sympathetic, though brutally flawed hero and the shocking, Hitchcock-esque finale make this psychological thriller a must-read.