LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
A thoughtfully written, smartly executed novel of suspense set in the rare book world. Former forger Will struggles to console Meghan when her brother and reclusive book collector Adam is found with his hands severed, their lives are thrown into further turmoil when threatening letters begin to arrive. This has such a clever premise, any confirmed bibliophile will be in their seventh heaven. The first sentence is a doozy, and my expectations skipped higher. This has the most wonderful setting and there are descriptions written by Bradford Morrow that are so evocatively written, they sing in their intensity. Don’t though, think you are only entering a murder mystery, while a crime sits centre stage, it is the background and the shadows that are actually the most revealing. The Forgers is an intriguing read, and one where the interest is not necessarily where you’d expect to find it.
Liz Robinson
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The Forgers Synopsis
The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalised beyond repair. Adam's sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will - a convicted if unrepentant literary forger - struggle to come to terms with the seemingly incomprehensible murder. But when Will begins receiving threatening handwritten letters, seemingly penned by long-dead authors, but really from someone who knows secrets about Adam's death and Will's past, he understands his own life is also on the line - and attempts to forge a new beginning for himself and Meg.
In The Forgers, Bradford Morrow reveals the passion that drives collectors to the razor-sharp edge of morality, brilliantly confronting the hubris and mortal danger of rewriting history with a fraudulent pen.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781611854602 |
| Publication date: |
5th November 2020 |
| Author: |
Bradford Morrow |
| Publisher: |
Grove Press/Atlantic |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
256 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Crime and Mystery
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The Forgers is quintessential Bradford Morrow. Brilliantly written as a suspense novel, lethally enthralling to read, and filled with arcane, fascinating information - in this case, the rarified world of high-level literary forgery. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The Forgers is remarkable. Bradford Morrow is remarkable. The Real Thing, which is rare on this earthly plane -- Michael Cunningham
[A] consistently unnerving mystery. . . . The best moments in The Forgers come . . . from its intimate knowledge of books, details about signatures, ink, bindings, the slant of Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting . . . creating an ambience of old-fashioned gothic suspense that bibliophiles in particular will enjoy. - USA Today
An excellent suspense novel. . . . Bradford Morrow is, quite skillfully, paying homage to one of Agatha Christie's most famous whodunits. Yet even then, he offers a few twists of his own and will keep all but the most astute mystery aficionado guessing about the truth until the end. - Washington Post
Those who like their murder mysteries soft-boiled and with a literary bent will love The Forgers. Devotees of Arthur Conan Doyle will especially appreciate Bradford Morrow's exploration of the seamy underbelly of the rare book world. . . . Morrow's language is so pitch perfect, his metaphors so startling, and his truths so pithy that you continue to listen to his tale with a growing fascination and unease. - New York Journal of Books
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About Bradford Morrow
Bradford Morrow is the author of eight novels, including Trinity Fields, The Diviner's Tale, and most recently, The Forgers, as well as a short-story collection, The Uninnocent. He is the founding editor of Conjunctions and has contributed to many anthologies and journals. A Bard Center Fellow and professor of literature at Bard College, he lives in New York City.
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