A sophisticated mystery debut in which priceless art and unspeakable desires convergeWhen French expatriate Tristan Mourault becomes enamored with fifteen-year-old Karen Miller, he ""rescues"" her from her working-class circumstances and stages her death to mask his true crime. Years later, Karen is now ""Gis le"" and lives with Tristan in rarefied Devon, Washington. She has married another man to keep up appearances, but when her daughter stumbles upon a secret cache of paintings-all nudes of Gis le-Tristan's carefully curated world begins to crumble. Set against a byzantine backdrop of greed, artifice, and manipulation-with tantalizing echoes of Lolita-In Malice, Quite Close keeps its most devastating secrets right up until the very last page.
By:
Brandi Lynn Ryder Imprint: Penguin USA Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 214mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 325g ISBN:9780143121176 ISBN 10: 0143121170 Pages: 392 Publication Date:31 July 2012 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Brandi Lynn Ryder lives in the heart of Napa Valley. In Malice, Quite Close is her first novel.
