Soho Sins

Zusatztext “Suspenseful…sultry…thrilling.”   -- The New Yorker "A gripping! noirish hard boiled mystery that will leave readers questioning their conclusions well after the curtains come down on this tragic!twisty! and unrelenting debut." - MYSTERY SCENE "The New York art world of the ´90s! awash in money! frames a suspenseful crime novel that´s also a gripping morality tale involving sex! ambition! deception and murder. The intricate plot! blending real and fictional places and persons! delivers a devastating! intriguingly ambiguous surprise ending."  - Elizabeth C. Baker! editor-at-large!  Art in America “Darkly glamorous! brimming with sophistication and thrumming with a decadent’s regret! SoHo Sins stuns right through to its final pages. I couldn’t put it down.”  - Megan Abbott   "Drama! deceit! and debauchery...Richard Vine brilliantly brings the underbelly of the art world to the forefront in this dark tale of woe. Phenomenal."  - Eric Shiner! Director! The Andy Warhol Museum   “Savvy and deeply enjoyable.  The Great Gatsby  meets Raymond Chandler.”  - Bill Pangburn! John Jay College of Criminal Justice “A dark! sophisticated and twisted tour that puts the reader right in the middle of the art world! with no escape till the last page.”  -- Jonathan Santlofer! author of THE DEATH ARTIST "A very dark! very noir crime novel! SoHo Sins  is a satisfying read for fans of the genre." -- New York Journal of Books  “Five out of five stars for this debut novel.” - New York Journal of Books  “The book is a worthy entry in the noir tradition no matter what! but what made it extra-wonderful for me was its cheerfully vicious dissection of the high-society gallery scene.” - Comic Book Resources  "...the unpredictable plot twists come fast and furiously as the story plumbs the depths of the human heart and terrible sins with maestria and elegance. Truly impressive." - Love Reading “Clever…built masterfully…[a] powerhouse debut.”  -- Criminal Element “Rarely has a first novel shown such confidence in its prose and such insight into its characters and setting. You’d swear it was the work of a seasoned novelist with national renown.” - Bookgasm "a pitch-perfect pulp novel" --  Mysterious Bookshop  "The story grips you." - The Fandom Post  "The conventions of the pulp genre are nicely conjured and well-suited to this page-turner and Vine is especially adept at blending his fictional characters with real Soho-Tribeca art world places! from the gallery laden streets of Chelsea to the Odeon the once again popular go-to dining spot evoked in the opening paragraph." - Nevada Appeal Informationen zum Autor RICHARD VINE is the managing editor of  Art in America ! one of the world’s most influential art magazines. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Chicago and has written hundreds of critical essays and  two nonfiction books on contemporary art. He recently curated museum exhibitions in India and China! and his travels as an art critic have taken him throughout Europe! Asia! South America! and the Middle East. In earlier days! he worked in steel mills and a locked psychiatric ward! was a beach bum in Hawaii and an ad executive in Chicago! studied in the south of France! and participated in the 1970 Kent State demonstrations that ended with four students killed and nine wounded. SOHO SINS is his first novel. Klappentext They were the New York art scene's golden couple until Amanda Oliver was found murdered! and her husband Philip confessed to shooting her. But was he a continent away when she died? Jackson Wyeth sets out to learn the truth! and uncovers the secrets of Manhattan's galleries and wild parties. Zusammenfassung They were the...

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"Suspenseful...sultry...thrilling." -- The New Yorker

"A gripping, noirish hard boiled mystery that will leave readers questioning their conclusions well after the curtains come down on this tragic,twisty, and unrelenting debut." - MYSTERY SCENE

"The New York art world of the '90s, awash in money, frames a suspenseful crime novel that's also a gripping morality tale involving sex, ambition, deception and murder. The intricate plot, blending real and fictional places and persons, delivers a devastating, intriguingly ambiguous surprise ending." - Elizabeth C. Baker, editor-at-large, Art in America

"Darkly glamorous, brimming with sophistication and thrumming with a decadent's regret, SoHo Sins stuns right through to its final pages. I couldn't put it down." - Megan Abbott

"Drama, deceit, and debauchery...Richard Vine brilliantly brings the underbelly of the art world to the forefront in this dark tale of woe. Phenomenal." - Eric Shiner, Director, The Andy Warhol Museum

"Savvy and deeply enjoyable. The Great Gatsby meets Raymond Chandler." - Bill Pangburn, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

"A dark, sophisticated and twisted tour that puts the reader right in the middle of the art world, with no escape till the last page." -- Jonathan Santlofer, author of THE DEATH ARTIST

"A very dark, very noir crime novel, SoHo Sins is a satisfying read for fans of the genre." -- New York Journal of Books

"Five out of five stars for this debut novel." - New York Journal of Books

"The book is a worthy entry in the noir tradition no matter what, but what made it extra-wonderful for me was its cheerfully vicious dissection of the high-society gallery scene." - Comic Book Resources

"...the unpredictable plot twists come fast and furiously as the story plumbs the depths of the human heart and terrible sins with maestria and elegance. Truly impressive." - Love Reading

"Clever...built masterfully...[a] powerhouse debut." -- Criminal Element

"Rarely has a first novel shown such confidence in its prose and such insight into its characters and setting. You'd swear it was the work of a seasoned novelist with national renown." - Bookgasm

"a pitch-perfect pulp novel" -- Mysterious Bookshop

"The story grips you." - The Fandom Post

"The conventions of the pulp genre are nicely conjured and well-suited to this page-turner and Vine is especially adept at blending his fictional characters with real Soho-Tribeca art world places, from the gallery laden streets of Chelsea to the Odeon the once again popular go-to dining spot evoked in the opening paragraph." - Nevada Appeal

Product details

• Authors: Richard Vine, Vine Richard
• Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9781783299287
• ISBN: 978-1-78329-928-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Hard Case Crime; Hard Case Crime
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, Crime and mystery fiction