David Lindsey

In the Lake of the Moon (Stuart Haydon Series, #4) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The first photograph arrived at Stuart Haydon's house on Monday, in an unmarked manila envelope. It was a black-and-white photograph of an oil painting, the painting, the portrait of a young man. Something about him was disturbingly familiar. It was not until Tuesday, when the next envelope arrived, that Haydon recognizedthis time from a photograph taken fifty years earlierthe youthful features of his own father. Wednesday and Thursday brought two more envelopes, and startling photographs of an exotically beautiful young woman.

Haydon knew that Friday's photograph would be the most explicit of the serries, but he was unprepared for what he saw. It "hit him like a physical blow to his stomach, and he almost gasped, a convulsive wave of nausea rising from deep within him . . .." It was a photograph of Haydon himself, taken only two days before, marked with a felt-tip pen to show a bullet's trajectory to Haydon's head and an explosion.

Thus begins the 4th Stuart Haydon which hurls the Houston Homicide Detective into the secret world of his deceased father's tumultuous and romantic past. The novel alternates between Haydon, cooly hunting the man who stalks him, and the psychopathic stalker, deranged by the secrets of a past of which Haydon is unaware; and between the fast-growing boomtown Houston of the 1980's and the subtropical beauty of Mexico City.

This time the crimes Haydon is compelled to confront and unravel are intricately intertwined with is own life. The past intrudes upon the present, and Haydon relearns an old lesson: that no individual can truly know or understand the heart and mind of another. The individual is inexplicable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Lindsey
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781963821048
• Artikelnr.: 72365208

Autorenporträt

I'm a native Texan, and I spent my early years a few miles from the Mexican border in Starr County. Eventually my family moved to West Texas where I grew up in the oil fields and ranches of the Colorado River valley northwest of San Angelo. After graduating from North Texas State University and spending a year in graduate school (focusing on 19th century European literature), I moved to Austin in 1970 where my wife, Joyce, and I still live.

I took an editing job with a small regional press and spent the next decade knocking around in a variety of jobs, including running my own small publishing company for a few years, and editing books in the humanities for the University of Texas Press.

Finally, in 1980, I decided I couldn't wait any longer to try my hand at fiction. I decided to increase my odds of getting published by researching what kinds of fiction had the best chance of finding a publisher. Mystery novels rose to the top of my research results. I don't think I'd ever read a "mystery novel" at that time, but I immediately bought a representative collection of twenty-five popular, famous, and classic mystery novels, including British and European writers. After reading these, and many more, I realized that the "genre" encompassed a startling variety of work, everything from Mickey Spillane to Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Two years later I began my writing career by publishing two mystery novels in the same year. Though I began writing in the mystery/crime genre, the subject matter of the books always leaned into the psychological aspects of human nature. I eventually went on to write fiction in other areas, including thrillers with international settings dealing with national and private intelligence professions.

When I'm not writing, I spend most of my time in my library filled with books predominately in the areas of literature, history, religion and art. My other pleasure is gardening and landscape work where I live in the hilly streets of West Lake Hills (Austin). it's a great pleasure to watch things grow. Joyce and I now sit in the shade of trees that are forty feet tall that we planted when we first moved to this place over thirty-five years ago. That's a good thing.