Ghostheart
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
A brilliant novel of love and consequences from 'one of crime fiction's new stars' [Sunday Telegraph]
Annie O'Neill has it all: a cosy Manhattan apartment, a beautiful bookshop and a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her life is a hole - a place vacated by her father when he died in her childhood.
So when a mysterious man named Forrester enters the shop and claims to be her father's oldest friend she jumps at the chance to find out more of her own past.
But Forrester's not being free with the answers she needs. He's much more interested in telling her a story about a ruthless ganglord and a fifty-year-old betrayal. A betrayal that she will realise far too slowly, has something very much to do with her...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
First published in the U.K. in 2004, this less than plausible thriller from Ellory (Saints of New York) offers little action, most of which occurs in the story within a story the chapters of an unpublished manuscript that Manhattan bookstore proprietor Annie O'Neill receives from a mysterious stranger, who claims to have been a friend of the father who disappeared from her life when she was seven. The sheltered, single 30-year-old Annie is fascinated by the bloody adventures in the manuscript of career criminal Harry Rose and his partner, Johnnie Redbird, whom Harry will one day betray. And she uncharacteristically starts to live a little more dangerously herself (unless you already count residing in what must be the only apartment building without a front-door lock in Morningside Heights), plunging into a steamy affair with a man she barely knows. Anyone less naive than Annie should have little trouble anticipating the major plot revelations, if not the final twist.
