'A completely engrossing read! I found Ann's writing compelling, elegant and convincing, and the story pulled me in and totally transported me.' Katherine Webb, best-selling author of The Legacy and The Disappearance Following a violent outburst at an awards ceremony, Vidor Kiraly, a prize-winning neuroscientist and Cambridge don, is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic in the Swiss Alps. When the clinic's director, Anton Gessen, tries in vain to unearth the missing pieces of Vidor's life, he suspects his reluctant patient is not who he appears to be. After one of the patients at the clinic goes missing, Gessen has reason to doubt Vidor's self-proclaimed innocence. But what is he hiding, and who might be next?
Ann Gosslin Libri
La narrativa di Ann Gosslin esplora gli aspetti oscuri e spesso nascosti della natura umana, ispirandosi a un fascino per la psicologia che dura da tutta la vita. Le sue storie si immergono nelle complessità della psiche umana, offrendo spunti profondi su motivazioni e comportamenti. Gosslin crea opere che sono sia psicologicamente acute che emotivamente risonanti, invitando i lettori a contemplare le complessità dei propri mondi interiori. La sua prosa distintiva crea un'atmosfera avvincente, rendendo il suo lavoro un'esperienza di lettura profondamente coinvolgente.



The Shadow Bird
- 288pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
Three months into her new role as a psychiatrist at a clinic in New York, Erin Cartwright is asked to evaluate the case of a man who murdered his mother and sisters at the age of seventeen. Found not guilty by reason of insanity and held in a maximum-security psychiatric facility for twenty-seven years, Timothy Stern is now eligible for release. Upon learning the crime occurred in the same village she once visited as a child, Erin is on the verge of refusing to take the case, when a startling discovery triggers memories she'd rather keep hidden, and a suspicion the wrong man is behind bars.
Ein brutales Verbrechen. Ein geheimnisvoller Patient. Eine unbequeme Psychiaterin. Die Psychiaterin Erin Cartwright wird gebeten, einen ungewöhnlichen Fall zu begutachten: Tim Stern soll mit 17 Jahren seine Mutter und seine Schwester brutal ermordet haben. Jetzt könnte er nach fast drei Jahrzehnten freikommen. Als Erin erfährt, dass ihre und Tims Wege sich schon einmal gekreuzt haben, steht sie kurz davor, abzulehnen. Doch je länger sie sich mit dem eigenwilligen Mann beschäftigt, desto größer werden ihre Zweifel an seiner Schuld. Während gleichzeitig der Verdacht in ihr keimt, dass ihre eigene Familie tiefer in die Sache verstrickt sein könnte, als ihr lieb ist …