The Book of Murder
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ISBN: 0143115804 / Publisher: Penguin Books, July 2009
Struggling to establish his writing career in the shadow of a hugely successful crime novelist named Kloster, an up-and-coming author is alarmed when his secretary--Kloster's own former assistant--claims that the famous novelist is a serial killer who is targeting her family.
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A chilling new tale of literary intrigue from the author of the international sensationThe Oxford MurdersWhen Guillermo Martínez 's novel The Oxford Murders was first published in the United States,The New York Times Book Review called it "a scholarly whodunit [for] anyone who loves a good mystery." Now Martínez returns with a worthy followup: the mesmerizingThe Book of Murder. A young writer finds himself unexpectedly tangled up in the story of Luciana, his former assistant and Kloster, bestselling author and rival. What he discovers about the deaths surrounding Luciana will make him question everything he had always believed-and taken for granted-about chance and calculation, cause and effect.
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