Nemesis Nemesis

Nemesis

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Publisher Description

This “mesmerizing” novel about a crime at an elite music school “calls to mind a David Lynch film” (The New York Times).
 
Shy piano teacher Maggie Blackburn has selflessly devoted her life and career to her students at the Forest Park Conservatory of Music in an affluent Connecticut suburb. Then a rape shakes the school’s refined grounds. The violated young student, Brendan Bauer, is a timid ex-seminarian. The perpetrator, Rolfe Christensen, is the newly appointed and celebrated composer-in-residence who has dazzled the faculty in ways Maggie could never have dreamed of. But when the conservatory’s conspiracy to conceal the crime results in Christensen’s murder, Bauer is suspected—and Maggie vows to find the real killer.
 
What Maggie soon discovers is that Christensen’s reputation—as genius, manipulator, and sexual predator—had preceded him, giving many people a reason to want him dead. But when the murder of another colleague casts additional doubt on Bauer’s innocence, Maggie’s labyrinthine hunt for a killer turns into more than an investigation. Now it’s a liberating obsession with secrets—hers included—as dark and twisted as the crimes themselves.
 
One of today’s most prolific and acclaimed literary talents, Joyce Carol Oates is a National Book Award winner, a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. As Elmore Leonard said, with her psychological suspense novels written under the name Rosamond Smith, “[she] could become the world’s Number One mystery writer easily.”
 

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2017
May 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
276
Pages
PUBLISHER
Open Road Media
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
2.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Donata Jeanne ,

A GREAT read for a classical music lover.

Oates makes writing seem easy, despite the fact that we all know it's not AND I still learn new vocabulary from each one of her books. Nemesis is set at an elite music conservatory near NYC, where shy, talented pianist Maggie, a lecturer, administrator, and woman who prefers to live under the radar, experiences a complete upheaval in her well-ordered life. Maggie finds herself in the center of more than one baffling murder investigation as she helps a grad student everyone thinks is guilty - but her. The Rosamond Smith books are more psychologically penetrating than Oats's regular fare (I love them all) letting us inside the protagonist's mind for the journey.

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