The Sleepwalker - A Novel

Zusatztext "Masterful...  The Sleepwalker  is Bohjalian at his best: a creepily compelling topic and an illusionist’s skill at tightening the tension. This is a novel worth losing sleep over." —Patty Rhule!  USA Today   "The kind of mystery that builds to a startling climax! the kind that makes the reader wonder how such a trick was pulled off...Bohjalian does a masterful job." —Clea Simon! the  Boston Globe    "Sex! secrets and the mysteries of sleep: These are the provocative ingredients in Chris Bohjalian’s spooky thriller  The Sleepwalker . It’s a dark! Hitchcockian novel… Trust me! you will not be able to stop thinking about it days after you finish reading this book." —Carol Memmott!  The Washington Post     "Literary and compelling! a combination so rare I’m tempted to apply for federal intervention. . . I hesitate to say more! because to know too much may spoil the fun of discovery. Rest assured the denouement is perfect. This is Bohjalian at his very best." —Curt Shleier!  The Seattle Times   "A perfectly crafted surprise ending… Bohjalian succeeds in making us accomplices in a dark world we never knew existed." —Laura Patten!  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Informationen zum Autor Chris Bohjalian Klappentext From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a spine-tingling novel of lies! loss and buried desire--the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night. Gorgeous! blond! successful! living in a beautiful Victorian home in a Vermont village! Annalee Ahlberg has another side: at night she sleepwalks! and her affliction manifests in ways both devastating and bizarre. A search party combs the woods! but there is little trace of Annalee and her family fears the worst. Her daughter Lianna leaves college to care for her father and younger sister. She finds herself uncontrollably drawn to Gavin Rikert! the hazel-eyed detective investigating the case! and the two become involved. But Gavin seems to know more about Lianna's mother than he should. As Lianna sifts through the life Annalee has left behind! she wonders if the man sleeping next to her could hold the key to her mother's mysterious disappearance. Chapter One Everyone in the county presumed that my mother’s body was decaying—becoming porridge—at the bottom of the Gale River. It was the year 2000, and we were but three seasons removed from the Y2K madness: the overwrought, feared end of the digital age. It was a moment in time when a pair of matching towers still stood near the tip of lower Manhattan. Fracking and photobomb and selfie were years from becoming words, but we were only months from adding to our vocabularies the expression hanging chad. I was twenty-one that summer and fall, and my sister was twelve. Neither of us fully recovered. The experts were surprised that Annalee Ahlberg’s body hadn’t been found, since a drowned body usually turns up near its point of entry into the water. But near is a relative term. And so police divers had searched long stretches of the waterway and even dredged a section along the levee that was built to protect the road from the flash floods that seemed to mangle the great, sweeping curve there every other decade. But there was no trace of her. They had scoured as well the small, shallow beaver pond in the woods a quarter of a mile behind my family’s red Victorian and found nothing there, too. Nevertheless, my younger sister and I thought it most likely that our mother was in that Vermont river somewhere. We hadn’t given up all hope that she would return alive—at least I hadn’t—but every day it grew harder to feign optimism for our father or say the right things (the appropriate things) when people asked us how we were doing. One day after school, a little more than t...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Chris Bohjalian
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780804170994
• ISBN: 978-0-8041-7099-4
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Serie: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli