The widely acclaimed debut novel???about three sisters, three tales, and a very dark secret???that's a chilling bedtime story for adults. ???People(three stars)
Fiona Walsh thought her family's secrets would follow her to her grave, but when her diary is found by a young postman, Niall, the truth about her untimely demise???and that of her sister and aunt???begins to see the light of day. It's the most tragic love story he's ever heard.
Niall soon becomes enveloped by the mystery surrounding Jim???an itinerant storyteller who traveled through Ireland enrapturing audiences and wooing women with his macabre mythic sagas???though a trail of murder followed him wherever he went. The Walsh sisters, fiercely loyal to each other, were not immune to darling Jim's powers of seduction, but found themselves in harm's way when they began to uncover his treacherous past. Niall must now continue his dangerous hunt for the truth???and for the vanished third sister???while there's still time.
And in the woods, the wolves from Jim's stories begin to gather.
Born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark,
Christian Moerkmoved to Vermont in his early twenties. After getting his MS in journalism at Columbia University, he was a movie executive for Warner Bros. Pictures and later wrote about film for The New York Times.
Darling Jimis his first novel published in America. He lives in Brooklyn.
???Spellbinding. . . Aglow with fairy-tale inflections, this hypnotic, neo-Gothic suspense story unfolds like a hothouse bloom, lush and pungent; it's a sprig of nightshade, all petals and poison. And it heralds the arrival of an astonishingly gifted storyteller. . . Sly, wry and utterly original.??? ???Daniel Mallory,The Washington Post
???Gripping.??? ???John Searles on NBC's Weekend Today, Ten must-read books for spring segment
???Moerk, a former film executive, would do very well carrying on the seancha?? tradition in anl³Q
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