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Title details for Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward - Available

Looking Glass Sound

by Catriona Ward
Christopher Ragland
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"If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here's your next obsession." —Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog
From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story.

In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write.
It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives.
But the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. He starts to see things that can't be real – notes hidden in the cabin, from an old friend now dead; a woman with dark hair drowning in the icy waters below, calling for help; entire chapters he doesn't recall typing, appearing overnight. Who, or what, is haunting Wilder?
No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does.
"An origami puzzle of a book, the mystery so beautifully crafted you don't see the folds, with edges sharp as a paper cut." —Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.

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    August 8, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781250882561
      • File size: 373703 KB
      • Duration: 12:58:32

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 26, 2023
      Ward (The Last House on Needless Street) examines the blurred line between reality and fiction in her unsettling latest. The story opens in 1989: lonely teenager Wilder Harlow is summering with his parents on the coast of Maine, where he meets handsome local Nat Pelletier and wealthy British vacationer Harper. The three quickly bond over local legends of the Dagger Man, a killer who leaves behind Polaroids of his victims. One afternoon, the friends make a grisly discovery that tests their connection and gives Wilder a chronic case of anxiety, which he manages by obsessively writing about the Dagger Man. Decades later, after the friendship has dissolved, Wilder returns to Maine to write a memoir covering the events of that fateful summer. Once there, he’s dogged by hallucinations, an unreliable memory, and a sense that he’s caught himself in some sort of time loop when events from his book start manifesting in the present. Ward dazzles with her ability to deliver satisfying narrative surprises at nearly every turn, though the novel’s metafictional layers can become tedious. Still, patient readers will be rewarded by a worthwhile conclusion—and likely motivated to read it all a second time.

    • Library Journal

      December 1, 2023

      Ward's (Sundial) latest psychological thriller features multiple metafictional layers that hide many secrets. The first layer describes Wilder Harlow's story about his summer as a teen in Whistler Bay, from the friends he makes to the horror he encounters in the form of the Dagger Man, a mysterious figure terrorizing this small Maine village. There are also vows forged in blood, dead bodies discovered, and stories that grow beyond their teller's control. Wilder returns to Whistler Bay some 30 years later to reclaim his story, but he is haunted by visions of drowned women and a betrayal that still stings. Eventually, he comes to doubt his senses and his sanity. Ward once again delivers a novel that leaves listeners curious, if uneasy. Narrators Christopher Ragland and Katherine Fenton effectively portray the characters' frustration and fear, especially when they begin to question what's real and what isn't. This novel demands that listeners carefully sift through the details Ward doles out until the final mind-bending twist. VERDICT With an abundance of moving parts, Ward's multilayered tale is a delightful challenge for anyone who loves reverse-engineering their thrillers.--James Gardner

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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