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The Semantics of Murder
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Book Details
- ISBN 9781846686580
- 30 April 2009
- 256 pp
- Paperback
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Synopsis
Jay Hamilton lives a comfortable life in fashionable west London, listening to the minor and major dysfunctions of the over-privileged clients who frequent his psychoanalytic practice. But the darker recesses of his own psyche would not stand up to close examination: his brother Richard, a genius professor of mathematical linguistics, was apparently killed by rent boys in Los Angeles and Jay was the first on the scene.
Author Dana Flynn is determined to scratch beneath the surface while researching a biography she intends to write about Richard, and finds that Jay’s professional life is as precarious as his personal relationships – he uses his clients’ case studies as material for his fiction writing.
Such is Jay’s hunger for recognition as a creative force that he exploits the vulnerable people he counsels, and a decision not to intervene when a troubled patient steals a baby, causes his past to unravel.
Reviews
‘This gripping psychological drama hooks the reader into a compelling labyrinth of sibling rivalry and stealthy passion. It is an intellectual novel of ideas written with real verve and style’ Patricia Duncker
‘A profoundly original new writer... a dark and thrilling quest through murderous spaces of the mind, in a prose of startling and inventive beauty’ Stevie Davies
‘An involving, exciting read, filled with well-drawn, credible characters and a plot that surges along with little hesitation and a great deal of style’ Sunday Business Post
'Campbell shows a light and conciliatory touch... She is excellent on the symptomatic one-upmanship of academia... she clearly has a talent for direct and uncompromising character portrayal' Irish Times
'A tense thriller' Waterstone's Books Quarterly
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