‘A stunning, ingenious, truly immersive mystery. The Turnglass is
a thrilling delight' Chris Whitaker Stuart Turton meets The
Magpie Murders in this immersive and unique story for fans of
clever crime fiction. Imagine you’re holding a book in your
hands. It’s not just any book though. It’s a tête-bêche
novel, beloved of nineteenth-century bookmakers. It’s a book that
is two books: two intertwined stories printed back-to-back. Open
the book and the first novella begins. It ends at the middle of the
book. Then flip the book over, head to tail, and read the second
story in the opposite direction. Both covers are front covers; and
it can be read in either direction, or in both directions at once,
alternating chapters, to fully immerse the reader in it. 1880s
England. On the bleak island of Ray, off the Essex coast, an
idealistic young doctor, Simeon Lee, is called from London to treat
his cousin, Parson Oliver Hawes, who is dying. Parson Hawes, who
lives in the only house on the island – Turnglass House –
believes he is being poisoned. And he points the finger at his
sister-in-law, Florence. Florence was declared insane after killing
Oliver’s brother in a jealous rage and is now kept in a
glass-walled apartment in Oliver’s library. And the secret to how
she came to be there is found in Oliver’s tête-bêche journal,
where one side tells a very different story from the other. 1930s
California. Celebrated author Oliver Tooke, the son of the state
governor, is found dead in his writing hut off the coast of the
family residence, Turnglass House. His friend Ken Kourian doesn’t
believe that Oliver would take his own life. His investigations
lead him to the mysterious kidnapping of Oliver’s brother when
they were children, and the subsequent secret incarceration of his
mother, Florence, in an asylum. But to discover the truth, Ken must
decipher clues hidden in Oliver’s final book, a tête-bêche
novel – which is about a young doctor called Simeon Lee . .
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General
Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
Gareth Rubin
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 153 x 34mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
512 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-398-51449-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
|
LSN: |
1-398-51449-7 |
Barcode: |
9781398514492 |
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