Paper Ghosts
Roman
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Jahrelang hat Grace auf diesen Moment hingearbeitet. Sie hat trainiert, sie hat recherchiert. Jetzt ist sie sicher, dass der alte Mann neben ihr auf dem Beifahrersitz der Mörder ihrer Schwester ist.
Carl Louis Feldman ist Fotograf. Die Frau auf dem Fahrersitz behauptet, dass er eine Reihe von Mädchen umgebracht hat. Doch er weiß nichts davon. Er hat ohnehin kaum mehr Erinnerungen an sein Leben.
Je länger der Road Trip dauert, desto größer werden die Zweifel. Ist Carl ein gebrochener, dementer Mann, dem schreckliches Unrecht widerfährt? Oder ist er ein gefährlicher Psychopath, der nun zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden muss?
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.
