Lucidity: A Thriller - Hardcover

Carnoy, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1468310879 ISBN 13: 9781468310870

Publisher: The Overlook Press, 2017

Synopsis

After his “gripping thriller debut” (Kirkus) Knife Music and sophomore “page turner” (Examiner.com) The Big Exit, David Carnoy’s Detective Hank Madden returns in this bicoastal caper that pits dreams against reality, where nothing can be taken at face value.   Twenty years after the unsolved case of Stacey Walker’s disappearance went cold, a Silicone Valley executive hires the retired Menlo Park Police Detective Hank Madden to find her body and track down her missing husband, the prime suspect in her unsolved murder. Four months later, author Candace Epstein is pushed in front of a car near Central Park. Her editor Max Fremmer becomes entangled into the investigation of her attempted murder, though he is adamant that he is uninvolved. As he digs into Candace’s background to clear his own name, Fremmer grows suspicious of his client’s connection to a nefarious institute for lucid dreaming on the Upper East Side and its staff whose stories never seem to add up―all while an unexpected link emerges to Detective Madden’s investigation in California. As similarities arise between the cases on each coast, Detective Madden and Fremmer forge an unlikely partnership to expose what misconduct lurks beneath the façade of the Lucidity Center―but can they unravel the secret that links their investigations together in time, or are they only dreaming? Carnoy’s Lucidity stuns with complex detail that will keep readers guessing until the final, satisfying jolt.

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About the Author

David Carnoy is an executive editor at CNET and is interviewed regularly as a tech expert on radio. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and other media outlets. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. He is the author of the acclaimed thrillers Knife Music, The Big Exit, and Lucidity. His novels have sold over 100,000 copies and have been translated into Russian, Turkish, and French.

Review

“David Carnoy gets better with each book . . . Lucidity is a tour de force of a thriller that captures you from the very first page.”
- Harlan Coben

“A spellbinding third thriller . . . Carnoy's sharp sense of humor and clever plotting make this novel a standout.”
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Lucidity moves with speed and power, doubling back, accelerating, weaving details, blasting through, relentlessly pulling you in . . . A wild ride on both coasts at the same time . . . Detective thriller fiction at its best.”
- Terry McDonell, author of The Accidental Life

“With narrative finesse, Carnoy delivers his most powerful book to date. In Lucidity, Carnoy combines two equally engrossing story lines into one powerhouse of a novel.”
- Allison Leotta, author of The Last Good Girl

About this edition

• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1468310879
• ISBN 13: 9781468310870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288