Only Child - Softcover

Pyper, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409149218 ISBN 13: 9781409149217

Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2018

Synopsis

The #1 internationally bestselling author of The Demonologist radically reimagines the origins of gothic literature’s founding masterpieces—Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dracula—in a contemporary novel driven by relentless suspense and surprising emotion. This is the story of a man who may be the world’s one real-life monster, and the only woman who has a chance of finding him.As a forensic psychiatrist at New York’s leading institution of its kind, Dr. Lily Dominick has evaluated the mental states of some of the country’s most dangerous psychotics. But the strangely compelling client she interviewed today—a man with no name, accused of the most twisted crime—struck her as somehow different from the others, despite the two impossible claims he made.First, that he is more than two hundred years old and personally inspired Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker in creating the three novels of the nineteenth century that define the monstrous in the modern imagination. Second, that he’s Lily’s father. To discover the truth—behind her client, her mother’s death, herself—Dr. Dominick must embark on a journey that will threaten her career, her sanity, and ultimately her life.Fusing the page-turning tension of a first-rate thriller with a provocative take on where thrillers come from, The Only Child will keep you up until its last unforgettable revelation.

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Pyper was born in Stratford, Ontario. He received a BA and an MA in English Literature from McGill University in Montreal, as well as a law degree from the University of Toronto. Although called to the bar in 1996, he has never practised law. Andrew is the author of a string of bestselling novels, including LOST GIRLS, which won the Arthur Ellis Award, and THE DEMONOLOGIST, which won the 2014 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Hardcover Novel. Find out more at www.andrewpyper.com or follow him on Twitter @andrewpyper

Review

So you're reading The Only Child, Pyper's newest book, and suddenly - kaboom! - the story is shot like a cannon blast across a very dark sky. Exactly the sort of light we pine for * JOSH MALERMAN, author of Bird Box and Black Mad Wheel * Andrew Pyper has become one of my favorite writers. The Only Child is as much a psychological inquiry as it is an adrenaline-fuelled thriller, layered with menace, mystery, and startling revelations that span centuries * BENJAMIN PERCY, author of The Dead Lands, Thrill Me, Red Moon and The Wilding * Cleverly re-imagines the 19th century gothic classics while spinning a thrilling, touching, and distinctly 21st century monster story * PAUL TREMBLAY, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock * Pyper is the most striking Canadian writer to emerge in recent years * MAIL ON SUNDAY * Horror abounds... Pyper's writing is gripping, and readers will undoubtedly make comparisons to Stephen King * LIBRARY JOURNAL * Genuinely terrifying, don't-read-late-at-night stuff. Thrilling, compelling and beautifully written * SJ WATSON, bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep * Pyper is a master architect of dread ... Compulsive and nerve-jangling * LAUREN BEUKES, bestselling author of The Shining Girls * A smart, thrilling, utterly unnerving novel. Pyper's gift is that he deeply respects his readers, yet still insists on reducing them to quivering children * GILLIAN FLYNN, bestselling author of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects * Praise for THE ONLY CHILD by Andrew Pyper, the taut, terrifying thriller for fans of Lauren Beukes and Stephen King: 'One of the most talented successors to Stephen King' * DAILY MAIL *

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1409149218
• ISBN 13: 9781409149217
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304