Psychiatrist Aileen Macklin's marriage to a man she met at Sussex University in the sixties is under strain when she is called in to attend to young Gary Dunn. In and out of trouble, his mental state isn't improved by having witnessed a murder the police think he knows more about than he will say. His squalid life with a group of glue-sniffing squatters doesn't help either. Yet Aileen feels mysteriously drawn to him and her discovery of his true identity provides a disturbing link with her own past - the acid-dropping sixties and the man she didn't marry
Michael Dibdin
Michael Dibdin was born in 1947. He went to school in Northern Ireland, and later to Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He lives in Seattle.After completing his first novel, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, in 1978, he spent four years in Italy teaching English at the University of Perugia. His second novel, A Rich Full Death, was published in 1986. It was followed by Ratking in 1988, which won the Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the year and introduced us to his Italian detective - Inspector Aurelio Zen. In 1989 The Tryst was published to great acclaim and was followed by Vendetta in 1990, the second story in the Zen series. Dirty Tricks was published in 1991. Inspector Zen made his third appearance in Cabal, which was published in 1992. The Dying of the Light, an Agatha Christie pastiche, was published in 1993. His fourth Zen novel, Dead Lagoon, was published the follow
Michael Dibdin
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