This time he might lose even more.Marisha Pessl (born October 26, 1977) is an American writer known for her novels Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Night Film, and Neverworld Wake. The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.ĭriven by revenge, curiosity, and a thirst for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova-a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.įor McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. “Mysterious and even a little head-spinning, an amazing act of imagination.” Dean Baquet, The New York Times Now Beatrice has one last shot at answers. Blithely, he announces the impossible: time for them has become stuck, snagged on a splinter that can only be removed if the former friends make the harshest of decisions. Then a mysterious man knocks on the door. One year after graduation, Beatrice is returning to Wincroft–the seaside estate where they spent so many nights sharing secrets, crushes, plans to change the world–hoping she’ll get to the bottom of the dark questions gnawing at her about Jim’s death.īut as the night plays out in a haze of stilted jokes and unfathomable silence, Beatrice senses she’s never going to know what really happened. Then the shocking death of Jim–their creative genius and Beatrice’s boyfriend–changed everything. Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her five best friends were the cool kids, the beautiful ones.
Enter a realm where fears are physical and memories come alive in this absorbing psychological suspense thriller with a twist, from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film.
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