ELIZABETH BRUNDAGE

'Ghosts, murder, a terrifying psychotic who seems normal, and beautiful writing. Loved it' Stephen King 'Can make you gasp in astonishment or break your heart with a single line' Wall St Journal 'Superb. Think a more literary, and feminist, Gone Girl' Vogue This begins the morning Catherine Clare died. The day her daughter spent in the house with her. The evening her husband came home to find her. This becomes the tale of their marriage, and the ones around them. A tale of bonds between families, between lives living and lost and of the lonely ones that share no bonds at all. Who should be pitied. Who must be feared.

A dark, riveting, beautifully written book by a brilliant novelist, according to Richard Bausch that combines noir and the gothic in a story about two families entwined in their own unhappiness, with, at its heart, a gruesome and unsolved murder Late one winter afternoon in upstate New York, George Clare comes home to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone for how many hours? in her room across the hall. He had recently, begrudgingly, taken a position at a nearby private college (far too expensive for local kids to attend) teaching art history, and moved his family into a tight-knit, impoverished town that has lately been discovered by wealthy outsiders in search of a rural idyll. George is of course the immediate suspect the question of his guilt echoing in a story shot through with secrets both personal and professional. While his parents rescue him from suspicion, a persistent cop is stymied at every turn in proving Clare a heartless murderer. And three teenage brothers (orphaned by tragic circumstances) find themselves entangled in this mystery, not least because the Clares had moved into their childhood home, a once-thriving dairy farm. The pall of death is ongoing, and relentless; behind one crime there are others, and more than twenty years will pass before a hard kind of justice is finally served. A rich and complex portrait of a psychopath and a marriage, this is also an astute study of the various taints that can scar very different families, and even an entire community. Elizabeth Brundage is an essential talent who has given us a true modern classic.

En rentrant chez lui un vendredi après-midi de tempête de neige, après une journée à l’université privée de Chosen où il enseigne l’histoire de l’art, George Clare trouve sa femme assassinée, et leur

EL RETRATO INQUIETANTE DE UN MATRIMONIO Y DE LAS HERIDAS QUE MARCAN A UNA COMUNIDAD. EL ACLAMADO BESTSELLER EN EL QUE SE BASA LA PELÍCULA DE NETFLIXLAS COSAS QUE ESCUCHES, QUE VEAS, QUE SIENTAS: TE LLEVARAN A LA VERDADEn un anochecer frio, el profesor de universidad George Clare llama a la puerta de su vecino con una noticia terrible: acaba de regresar del trabajo y ha encontrado en la cama de matrimonio a su mujer, Catherine, muerta. Alguien la ha asesinado mientras Franny, la hija de tres años que tienen en comun, jugaba sola en su habitacion al otro lado del pasillo. No hace mucho que se han trasladado a aquella casa situada en una pequeña comunidad. Una casa que, segun los habitantes del lugar, esta encantada y que en el pasado fue el escenario de una siniestra vivencia.Fantasmas, homicidios, un psicopata terrorifico y una prosa extraordinaria. Este thriller me ha encantado. Stephen KingEs para novelas como esta que se ha acuñado el termino thriller literario. The Wall Street JournalUn thriller literario soberbio. VogueAguda, profunda, tragica y trascendente. Publishers WeeklyPenetrante, evocadora. PeopleEscrita con brio y desde las entrañas. The New York TimesEs para novelas como esta que se ha acuñado el termino thriller literario. The Wall Street JournalUn thriller literario soberbio. VogueAguda, profunda, tragica y trascendente. Publishers WeeklyPenetrante, evocadora. PeopleEscrita con brio y desde las entrañas. The New York TimesUn retrato inquietante tanto de una familia como de la vida en una comunidad. Elle

Ghosts, murder, a terrifying psychotic who seems normal, and beautiful writing. Loved it Stephen KingCan make you gasp in astonishment or break your heart with a single lineWall St JournalSuperb. Think a more literary, and feminist, Gone GirlVogueBASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM THINGS HEARD & SEEN This begins the morning Catherine Clare died. The day her daughter spent in the house with her. The evening her husband came home to find her.This becomes the tale of their marriage, and the ones around them. A tale of bonds between families, between lives living and lost and of the lonely ones that share no bonds at all. Who should be pitied. Who must be feared.

From the author of the "wrenching and exhilarating"All Things Cease to Appear comes a gripping literary thriller about a man reckoning with the mysterious death of his former roommate (Wall Street Journal). Julian Ladd and Rye Adler cross paths as photography students in the exclusive Brodsky Workshop. When Rye needs a roommate, Julian moves in, and a quiet, compulsive envy takes root, assuring, at least in his own mind, that he will never achieve Ryes certain success. Both men are fascinated with their beautiful and talented classmate, Magda, whose captivating images of her Polish neighborhood set her apart, and each will come to know her intimately a woman neither can possess and only one can love. Twenty years later, long after their paths diverge, Rye is at the top of his field, famous for his photographs of celebrities and far removed from the downtrodden and disenfranchised subjects whod secured his reputation as the eye of his generation. When Magda reenters his life, asking for help only he can give, Rye finds himself in a broken landscape of street people and addicts, forcing him to reckon with the artist he once was, until his search for a missing boy becomes his own desperate fight to survive. Months later, when Julian discovers Ryes obituary, the paper makes it sound like a suicide. Despite himself, Julian attends the funeral, where there is no casket and no body. This sudden reentry into a world he thought he left behind forces Julian to question not only Ryes death, but the very foundations of his life. In this eerie and evocative novel, Elizabeth Brundage establishes herself as one of the premiere authors of literary fiction at work today.

Lorsque Julian Ladd, en rentrant un soir de l’agence de pub où il travaille, découvre dans le journal l’avis de décès de Rye Adler, le passé refait lentement surface. L’appartement qu’ils partageaien

A stunning work of literary suspense by the the acclaimed author of All Things Cease to Appear.The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun.Lydia Haas is devoted to Jesus, her church, and her husband. Only recently, after its too late, has she understood how much she has sacrificed to all of them.Michael Knowles is a rising young doctor, an OB/gyn at a prominent hospital. A man committed to his principles, to rescues with uncertain outcomes; to his wife. The life theyve made. He never intended to have to make a choice.Annie Knowles is the doctors wife. The first time she walked into their 1812 Federal-style home in High Meadow, an idyllic town in upstate New York, she thought shed be happy there forever. But that dream wore thin, and another mana colleague at the local college where Annie teachesis insinuating himself slowly, surely, passionately into her life.Simon Haas paintings of his wife Lydia made him famous. The story behind those paintings, and behind his marriage, is not one Simon chooses to tell. Until he meets Annie Knowles.Elizabeth Brundages debut work of fiction is the story of two couples and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives.

A taut, complex psychological thriller from the author of The Doctors Wife Like The Doctors Wife - which The Boston Globe called "a compelling read"-Somebody Elses Daughter is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and disturbing characters. In the idyllic Berkshires, at the prestigious Pioneer School, there are dark secrets that threaten to come to light.Willa Golding has been brought up by her adoptive parents in elegant prosperity, but they have fled a mysterious and shameful past. Her biological father, a failing writer and former drug addict, needs to see the daughter he abandoned, and in order to do so, he gains a teaching position at Pioneer School. A feminist sculptor initiates a reckless affair, the Pioneer students live in a world to which adults turn a blind eye, and the headmasters wife is busy keeping her husbands current indiscretions well hidden. Building to a breathtaking collision between two fathers (biological and adoptive), Somebody Elses Daughter is both a suspenseful thriller and a probing study of richly conflicted characters in emotional turmoil.

This literary thrillers complex narrative involves a cursed house, an unsolved murder and impeccable writing. The New York Times Book Review The basis for the Netflix film Things Heard and Seen Recent transplants to the small town of Chosen, New York, the Clares have not received the warmest welcome; once a thriving dairy farm, their home is haunted by the tragedy that left the former owners three sons orphaned and adrift. Late one winter afternoon, professor George Clare knocks on his neighbors door with terrible news: he returned from work to find his wife, Catherine, murdered in their bed. Someone took an ax to her head while their three-year-old daughter, Franny, played alone in her room across the hall. As one dark secret peels away to reveal othersand as the Clare marriage reveals itself to have a sinister darkness that rivals the farms historyElizabeth Brundage offers a rich and complex portrait of the scars that can haunt a community for generations and the dark longings inside each and every one of us that drive us to do inexplicable things.

A taut and terrifying thriller about the lengths to which well go to make our dreams come true Hedda Chase is a top-flight executive producer at Gladiator Films, fast-tracked in the business since she graduated from Yale. An aggressive businesswoman, she recently pulled the plug on a film project initiated by one of her predecessors. The screenwriter on the project was Hugh Waters, a wannabe with a dead-end marriage and a day job at an insurance company. This script was his ticket out-until Hedda tampered with his plans, claiming his violence was over the top, his premise not credible, and his ending implausible. Hugh decides to prove otherwise by staging his scripts ending and casting Hedda Chase as the victim. He flies to Los Angeles and finds Hedda, kidnaps her, and locks her in the trunk of her vintage BMW in the parking lot at LAX. He leaves the keys in the ignition, the parking ticket on the dash, and lets "destiny" take its course. This is the set-up for a troubling, smart, deadly look at women and images of women, at media as a high-stakes game and the selling of a war as theatre. (One key character is an Iraq veteran, and one of Heddas projects is a film about women in Iraq). Brundages Los Angeles is a casual battleground that trades carelessly in lives and dreams. As always, her characters are complicated, surprising, and intense in this high velocity, provocative novel.Watch a Video

EL ACLAMADO BESTSELLER EN EL QUE SE BASA LA PELÍCULA DE NETFLIX LAS COSAS QUE ESCUCHES, QUE VEAS, QUE SIENTAS: TE LLEVARÁN A LA VERDAD En un anochecer frío, el profesor de universidad George Clare l