The Sunshine Man
A Novel
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
“The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other . . .”
A taut, electrifying thriller about a woman determined to avenge her sister’s murder—and the killer who must confront his own ghosts
Birdie Keller wakes one freezing January morning to the news she’s been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. She leaves for London with a pistol and a plan: to find this man and make him pay.
But every story has two sides. Jimmy can sense he’s being hunted. He knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life she’d sooner forget, and he isn’t the only one with something to hide. As the two circle each other in a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, they plunge into a murky world of family secrets, betrayals, and unsolved mysteries.
A tense, spellbinding page-turner, The Sunshine Man twists its way through the web of lives left shattered after a terrible crime and crafts an unforgettable tale of loss and revenge.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A Wiltshire woman stalks her sister's killer in this mournful crime thriller from British novelist Stonex (The Lamplighters). One morning in 1989, Bridget Keller learns that James Maguire is being released from prison after serving 18 years for murdering her younger sister, Providence. Bridget sees her husband off on a business trip, arranges for her mother-in-law to collect her kids after school, and retrieves the gun she secretly purchased in anticipation of this day. She then departs for London, prepared to tail James until the moment is right for her to exact justice. Meanwhile, an oblivious James carries out his own agenda, assisted by a daughter he barely knows. Stonex's sophomore effort is at once a rage-fueled revenge tale and a heartbreaking exploration of memory's fallibility, compassion's power, and violence's cyclical nature. Childhood flashbacks are peppered throughout Bridget's anguished first-person narration, while letters and journal entries James wrote in prison add context to third-person chapters that chronicle his postincarceration struggles. Slack pacing occasionally saps the narrative of momentum, but fans of sinuous slow burns will be entertained.
