CLOUDLAND

This is an incredibly atmospheric literary thriller set in Vermont. Joseph Olshan knows the terrain well, having lived there for twenty years, and he uses it to great effect -- very much in the vein of some of the wintry Swedish and Norwegian thrillers that have been occupying the bestseller lists.

From the internationally acclaimed author of Clara's Heart (the basis of the movie starring Whoopie Goldberg) and The Nightswimmer, CLOUDLAND is a new novel by Joseph Olshan, in the vein of Tom Franklin (Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter) and Benjamin Black (Christine Falls). CLOUDLAND is the story of Catherine Winslow, a once nationally recognized journalist now living in Vermont and writing a syndicated household tips column, who finds leaning against a tree not far from her house, at the first spring thaw, the body of the latest victim of a serial murderer. Her old ambitions reignited, Winslow finds herself enmeshed in the search for the killer and in an investigation that circles ever closer to her own complicated personal life.