Description
'Rewarding, inventive and enjoyably perplexing' Sunday Times
A colleague writes an obituary for a fellow scientist and Nobel Prize winner, somewhat relishing his death; a train in the Scottish Highlands takes the wrong track during a snowstorm, resulting in a death, possibly murder; a publisher's reader reports on a hospital romance novel that bizarrely ends with a gory, Ripper-style murder. Ten apparently separate stories are ingeniously drawn together to form variations on a single theme - obsession with the success of a rival and the plotting of his death.
But obsession is an unstable motive for murder, and the game of revenge can turn very sour . . .
Betrayals is an ingenious, mesmerising puzzle, intricately pieced together by a master of the art.
About the Author
Charles Palliser is a bestselling American-born novelist. He has published five novels which have been translated into a dozen languages, and his most well-known novel, THE QUINCUNX, sold over a million copies internationally. He has taught creative writing in Glasgow, London, New Jersey and Poitiers. He lives in London.
Book Information
ISBN 9781471917493
Author Charles Palliser
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint The Murder Room
Publisher The Murder Room
Weight(grams) 41g
