CHARLES PALLISER

Esta novela introduce al lector en un mundo en sombras a través de una fascinante galería de personajes y acontecimientos que le llevan a diferentes etapas de la historia, siempre en busca de la resolucion de un secreto. Y es precisamente la pluralidad de incognitas y la estremecedora recreacion de ambientes muy dispares lo que confiere a esta obra un extraordinario grado de suspense.

An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinarya plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th centuryLondon itself.So compulsively absorbing that reality disappears . . . One is swept along by those enduring emotions that defy modern art and a random universe: hunger for revenge, longing for justice and the fantasy secretly entertained by most people that the bad will be punished and the good rewarded.The New York TimesA virtuoso achievement . . . It is an epic, a tour de force, a staggeringly complex and tantalizingly layered tale that will keep readers engrossed in days. . . . The Quincunx will not disappoint you. It is, quite simply, superb.Chicago Sun-TimesA bold and vivid tale that invites the reader to get lost in the intoxicating rhythms of another world. And the invitation is irresistible.San Francisco ChronicleA remarkable book . . . In mood, color, atmosphere and characters, this is Charles Dickens reincarnated . . . It is an immersing experience.Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTo read the first pages is to be trapped for seven-hundred odd more: you cannot stop turning them.The New YorkerFew books, at most a dozen or two in a lifetime, affect us this way. . . . For sheer intricacy and ingenuity, for skill and clarity of storytelling, it is the kind of book readers wait for, a book to get lost in.The Philadelphia Inquirer

Rewarding, inventive and enjoyably perplexingSunday TimesA colleague writes an obituary for a fellow scientist and Nobel Prize winner, somewhat relishing his death; a train in the Scottish Highlands takes the wrong track during a snowstorm, resulting in a death, possibly murder; a publishers reader reports on a hospital romance novel that bizarrely ends with a gory, Ripper-style murder. Ten apparently separate stories are ingeniously drawn together to form variations on a single theme - obsession with the success of a rival and the plotting of his death.But obsession is an unstable motive for murder, and the game of revenge can turn very sour . . .Betrayals is an ingenious, mesmerising puzzle, intricately pieced together by a master of the art.

Richard, jeune étudiant de dix-sept ans, est radié de l’université de Cambridge pour des raisons difficiles à avouer. C’est donc dans la demeure familiale qu’il décide de passer les fêtes de Noël, mê

A gothic tale of deception, murder and mystery set in Victorian England.On a bleak, wintry morning in Victorian England, Dr Ned Courtine arrives in the sleepy cathedral town of Thurchester for a reunion with his former university friend, Austin Fickling. Over 20 years have passed since they last saw each other, and Fickling appears anxious and gaunt, ravaged by a strange, existential guilt. In order to deflect Courtines questions from himself, Fickling recounts the story of Thurchesters ghost, William Burgoyne, once a royalist and treasurer of the cathedral who was murdered in the aftermath of the Civil War. The macabre tale of murder and deception captures Courtines imagination, and he finds himself unknowningly drawn into a world of haunting evil. A masterpiece of Victorian suspense as well as a dazzling meditation on human passions, THE UNBURIED is a murder mystery that lingers - even after all has been resolved.