**Amazon Best Mystery of 2015** A gripping novel of culture clash and murder: as summer draws to a close, a small Long Island town is gripped by a series of mysterious deaths--and one young man, a loner taken in by a local, tries to piece together the crimes before his own time runs out. Orient is
Orient
✍ Scribed by Christopher Bollen
- Publisher
- Gads Forlag;Gad, Lærke Pade
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- da-DK
- Weight
- 443 KB
- Edition
- 1. udgave
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Hver sommer søger Manhattans indbyggere bort fra byen og ud til havet. Orient svulmer op til dobbelt størrelse, når de smukke gader danner ramme for storbyens kunstnere og bohemer. Men da sommeren går på hæld, og byen forbereder sig på vinteren og stilheden, kommer den unge fremmede enspænder Mills Chevern til byen. Snart finder en række foruroligende hændelser sted. En lokal opsynsmand bliver fundet omkommet i havet, en ældre kvinde dør under mystiske omstændigheder og et livløst, monstrøst dyr skyller op på stranden ikke langt fra statens forskningslaboratorium. Snart er Orient gennemsyret af paranoia. Og som den fremmede, han er, er Mills Chevern den naturlige syndebuk.
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