Bradford Morrow

“Like the love child of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle . . . delightful to read.”—NPR.org, on The ForgersA gripping literary thriller that brings readers inside the world of expert forgery, rivalrous fury, and generations of dark family secrets, with Mary Shelley’s voice and life woven throughoutLiterary forger Henry Slader, assaulted and presumed dead by his longtime nemesis, Will, awakens in a shallow grave, suffocating in dirt. Concussed and disoriented, Slader exhumes himself and sets out to exact revenge on his rival, orchestrate Will’s downfall, and make a fortune along the way—armed with a devastating secret about Will’s past. Slader quickly draws in Will’s daughter, Nicole, wielding his threats against her father to blackmail her into forging inscriptions by such authors as Poe, Hemingway, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Nicole’s skill grows, so does her devotion to—and doubts about—her father’s integrity, until she commits the ultimate betrayal for the sake of his freedom. With breathtakingly precise background knowledge and virtuoso execution, Nicole forges a suite of brilliantly convincing and surpassingly valuable letters by Frankenstein author Mary Shelley—planting within them the seeds of Slader’s doom.Moving between upstate New York, a village in Ireland, London, and ending in a shocking standoff at the site of Mary Shelley’s grave in a coastal town in Southern England, The Forger’s Requiem is both a compelling standalone novel and the crescendo ending to the trilogy Joyce Carol Oates has called “lethally enthralling to read.”

?Like the love child of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle . . . delightful to read.??NPR.org, on The ForgersA gripping literary thriller that brings readers inside the world of expert forgery, rivalrous fury, and generations of dark family secrets, with Mary Shelley?s voice and life woven throughoutLiterary forger Henry Slader, assaulted and presumed dead by his longtime nemesis, Will, awakens in a shallow grave, suffocating in dirt. Concussed and disoriented, Slader exhumes himself and sets out to exact revenge on his rival, orchestrate Will?s downfall, and make a fortune along the way?armed with a devastating secret about Will?s past.Slader quickly draws in Will?s daughter, Nicole, wielding his threats against her father to blackmail her into forging inscriptions by such authors as Poe, Hemingway, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Nicole?s skill grows, so does her devotion to?and doubts about?her father?s integrity, until she commits the ultimate betrayal for the sake of his freedom. With breathtakingly precise background knowledge and virtuoso execution, Nicole forges a suite of brilliantly convincing and surpassingly valuable letters by Frankenstein author Mary Shelley?planting within them the seeds of Slader?s doom.Moving between upstate New York, a village in Ireland, London, and ending in a shocking standoff at the site of Mary Shelley?s grave in a coastal town in Southern England, The Forger?s Requiem is both a compelling standalone novel and the crescendo ending to the trilogy Joyce Carol Oates has called ?lethally enthralling to read.?

Meta Tavernerová žijící v New Yorku se nemůže věnovat kariéře pianistky, ale jednoho dne se jí dostane do rukou notový zápis hudebního díla z konce 18. století. Je to pouze fragment, třetina sonáty od evidentně geniálního skladatele. Metě se podaří spojit se starou dámou jménem Otylie Bartošová, jejíž rodině kdysi sonáta patřila. Když v předvečer okupace prchala z Prahy, rozdělila rodina dílo na tři části, aby se nedostalo nacistům do rukou celé, kdyby se snad útěk nezdařil. Meta se pokusí dát všechny části zase dohromady a vydává se do Čech. Co když se však jedna z třetin nenachází v Praze uprostřed Evropy, ale v městečku Prague, zapadákově v Nebrasce? Napínavý detektivní román o záhadě mistrovské sonáty, jejímž autorem by mohl být samotný Mozart.

Pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript - the gift of a Czech immigrant living in Queens - come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. The gift comes with the request that Meta find the manuscript's true owner - a Prague friend the old woman has not heard from since the Second World War forced them apart - and to make the three-part sonata whole again. Leaving New York behind for the land of Dvorak and Kafka, Meta sets out on an unforgettable search to locate the remaining movements of the sonata and uncover a story that has influenced the course of many lives, even as it becomes clear that she isn't the only one seeking the music's secrets.

Hrdinka psychologického thrilleru Cassandra zdědila po otci zvláštní nadání – dokáže s pomocí proutku objevit kdekoliv pod zemí vodu. Najme si ji majitel vzdáleného pozemku, kde Cassandra ke své hrůze najde oběšenou mladou dívku. Když tam přivede policii, dívka je pryč. Byl to přelud? A proč od té doby Cassandru potkávají podivné náhody a pronásledují vidiny? Cassandra se snaží vypátrat pravdu a přesvědčit ostatní, že tajemnou dívku skutečně viděla – jinak by musela přiznat, že má blízko k šílenství.