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THE TRICK OF THE DEAD
A rich, well-crafted narrative, full of twists, beautifully drawn characters and set in a stunning yet mysterious landscape, TheTrick of the Dead has a unique, timeless quality, and is both a compelling psychological thriller and a ghost story, where nothing is as it seems.
There are things that haunt us throughout our lives – love and hate; good and evil; light and dark.
A small boy listens in as his clairvoyant mother declares that a client’s twin baby daughters are ‘good baby’ and ‘bad baby’. Agnes Howe seethes with anger as her ‘good baby’ dies, leaving her with the other twin – Dorothy. Until Dorothy leaves home, Agnes is instrumental in making her remaining daughter’s life as unhappy and unfulfilled as Agnes herself.
Years later, Dorothy is a successful TV broadcaster and journalist, but she is haunted by the death of her twin and the darkness that follows her whenever there’s a trick of the light, or wherever there is a reflection. A breakdown live on air sees her travel to a remote, wintry Italian town to recuperate. Yet even there she is unable to find the solace she seeks.
As events become ever more distorted, Dorothy finds herself on the edge, loving and fearing the mysterious magician/illusionist Mercurio, a man who stares into her very soul, as if he knows her, and caught up in the town’s obsession with the eccentric twins, Gio and Carolina Montinone, as grotesque as they are beautiful. Before long Dorothy is embroiled in a strange murder where her very being is threatened, and her sanity is at stake.
Who is tricking who, and is there a way for Dorothy finally to come to terms with herself and her destructive past?
Penelope Evans was born in Wales. She read Classics at St Andrews, then trained and practised as a criminal barrister in London before giving up to write full time. She has published seven widely and well reviewed novels since1995, three of which, First Fruits, Freezing and The Last Girl, have been published in key foreign language territories and the USA. She has also written regularly for The Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and The Sunday Times on subjects that include travel, health and ancient history. She produces literary commercial fiction, novels notable for strong narrative, most often driven by obsession, family secrets and lies. She is married with two daughters and lives in Buckinghamshire. Her website is www.penelopeevans.co.uk
A small boy listens in as his clairvoyant mother declares that a client’s twin baby daughters are ‘good baby’ and ‘bad baby’. Agnes Howe seethes with anger as her ‘good baby’ dies, leaving her with the other twin – Dorothy. Until Dorothy leaves home, Agnes is instrumental in making her remaining daughter’s life as unhappy and unfulfilled as Agnes herself.
Years later, Dorothy is a successful TV broadcaster and journalist, but she is haunted by the death of her twin and the darkness that follows her whenever there’s a trick of the light, or wherever there is a reflection. A breakdown live on air sees her travel to a remote, wintry Italian town to recuperate. Yet even there she is unable to find the solace she seeks.
As events become ever more distorted, Dorothy finds herself on the edge, loving and fearing the mysterious magician/illusionist Mercurio, a man who stares into her very soul, as if he knows her, and caught up in the town’s obsession with the eccentric twins, Gio and Carolina Montinone, as grotesque as they are beautiful. Before long Dorothy is embroiled in a strange murder where her very being is threatened, and her sanity is at stake.
Who is tricking who, and is there a way for Dorothy finally to come to terms with herself and her destructive past?
Penelope Evans was born in Wales. She read Classics at St Andrews, then trained and practised as a criminal barrister in London before giving up to write full time. She has published seven widely and well reviewed novels since1995, three of which, First Fruits, Freezing and The Last Girl, have been published in key foreign language territories and the USA. She has also written regularly for The Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and The Sunday Times on subjects that include travel, health and ancient history. She produces literary commercial fiction, novels notable for strong narrative, most often driven by obsession, family secrets and lies. She is married with two daughters and lives in Buckinghamshire. Her website is www.penelopeevans.co.uk
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