Meet Ian Wallace. A politically-incorrect private investigator who is never shy about wearing his belief in traditional values on his sleeve. Twenty years earlier, Wallace worked for the CIA but left after his life and dreams were all but destroyed in a dark prison cell in Moscow at the hands of a r
Vengeance Is Mine
β Scribed by Marie NDiaye; Jordan Stump
- Book ID
- 111895929
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 317 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780593534250
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dredges up unsettling memories from a lawyer's childhood.
The heroine of Marie NDiaye's new novel is Maitre Susane, a quiet middle-aged lawyer living a modest existence in Bordeaux, known to all as a consummate and unflappable professional. But when Gilles Principaux shows up at her office asking her to defend his wife, who is accused of a horrific crime, Maitre Susane begins to crack.
She seems to remember having been alone with him in her youth for a significant event, one her mind obsesses over but can't quite reconstruct. Who is this Gilles Principaux? And why would he come to her, a run-of-the-mill lawyer, for such an important trial?
While this mystery preoccupies Maitre Susane, at home she is increasingly concerned about Sharon, her faithful but peculiar housekeeper. Sharon arrived from...
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