The Fall of Man in Wilmslow

Zusatztext “Absorbing. . . . Gets the synapses sparking.” — The Sunday Telegraph  (London) “Illuminating . . . a rewarding book to read.” – The Washington Times “Lagercrantz has the lingo! the mood and the place down pat.” – The Globe and Mail (Toronto)   “Winning. . . . A police procedural in which a dogged copper tries to crack a mystery in the teeth of bloody-minded intransigence.” – The Independent  (London) “Lagercrantz ( The Girl in the Spider's Web ) proves that he can succeed with wholly original work in this multifaceted look at the death of British mathematician Alan Turing in 1954. . . . Memorable prose . . . enhances the complex plot.” – Publishers Weekly “Turing's life and death have become popular subjects! but this novel by a well-known Swedish writer offers an interesting and fresh angle. . . . A persuasive evocation of Turing's genius and of a Britain still suffering under rationing and repression.” – The Daily Mail  (London) “Lagercrantz neatly intertwines the facts of Turing's life with the fiction of Corell's quest for knowledge to create an unsettling story of state secrets and sexual hypocrisy.” – The Sunday Times  (London) “[A] pensive meditation on the life and death of the mathematician Alan Turing . . . [and a] quietly suggestive depiction of how the investigation affects the investigator. . . . Full of psychological insight.” – Kirkus Reviews “[Lagercrantz] has the faintest whiff of W.G. Sebald; haunted characters determined to pull others down into turbid! oppressive currents of memory and ideas. You are willingly drawn down with them.” – The Spectator  (London)   “Lagercrantz’s fictional variations on this true story make it seem fresh and even more appalling.” – The Star (Toronto) Informationen zum Autor DAVID LAGERCRANTZ  is an acclaimed Swedish journalist and author. He has worked as a crime reporter for Expressen and has written several novels! including the #1 best-selling The Girl in the Spider’s Web. He worked with international soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic on his memoir I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic! which was short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and nominated for the August Prize in Sweden.   www.davidlagercrantz.se 2   It rained the next day as well and young Detective Constable Leonard Corell came walking along Adlington Road. When he drew level with Brown’s Lane, he took off his trilby because he felt warm despite the rain, and he thought of his bed, not the miserable bed in his flat but the one waiting at his aunt’s in Knutsford, and as he did so his head sank down to his shoulder, as if he were about to fall asleep. He did not like his job. He did not like the salary, the walking, the paperwork, or godforsaken Wilmslow where nothing ever happened. It had got to the point where even now he felt nothing but emptiness. And yet the housekeeper who called had mentioned a white froth around the dead man’s mouth and a smell of poison in the house, and in the past a report like this would definitely have sparked some life in Corell. Now he just plodded along the puddles of water and the garden hedges. Behind lay the field and the railway. It was Tuesday, June 8, 1954, and he glanced down, looking for the signs with the house names on them. When he found the address “Hollymeade,” he turned in to the left and was met by a large willow which looked like a big old broom, and without needing to he stopped and retied his shoelaces. A brick pathway stretched halfway across the yard and then came to an abrupt stop, and he wondered to himself what had happened here, although obviously he realised that, whatever it was, it had nothing to do with the brick footpath. Over by the left-hand entrance stood an elderly woman. “Are you the housek...

Product details

• Authors: David Lagercrantz
• Publisher: Knopf
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781101946695
• ISBN: 978-1-101-94669-5
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Schwedische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)