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Mysteries of Winterthurn
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ISBN13: 9780062795748
Publisher: Ecco Pr
Published: Dec 11 2018
Pages: 656
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Filled with surprising, exotic, and dangerous treats, Mysteries of Winterthurn is the perfect thing for a winter's night by the fire. --Washington Post
Darkly layered and atmospheric, Mysteries of Winterthurn is Joyce Carol Oates' Gothic masterpiece--a detective novel that explores the shadows of human nature. Oates transports readers to an America at once haunting and familiar: decaying manor houses, hidden family secrets, and chilling superstition shape the destiny of its unforgettable cast.
At its core, the novel explores the clash of reason and madness, duty and desire, innocence and experience. Through detective Xavier Kilgarvan and his cousin Perdita--each driven by obsession and haunted by sorrow--Oates examines the cost of seeking justice, the shadows of guilt, and the fine line between the living and the spectral past.
In Mysteries of Winterthurn, brilliant young detective Xavier Kilgarvan faces three unsettling cases--The Virgin in the Rose-Bower, The Devil's Half-Acre, and The Blood-Stained Gown. As he probes gruesome crimes and tangled family secrets, Xavier's search for the truth pulls him toward obsession, particularly through his forbidden love for his cousin Perdita. Their story weaves together themes of innocence and guilt, love and ruin, inside a labyrinth of suspicion that threatens to consume them both.
As Xavier's investigations strip away Winterthurn's elegant veneer, a concealed world of cruelty, betrayal, and dark secrets emerges. Oates probes the limits of justice and the fragility of truth as Xavier grapples with moral ambiguity and his forbidden longing for Perdita, while both are drawn deeper into mysteries that threaten to consume them and their family.
Darkly gothic and psychologically rich, Mysteries of Winterthurn reveals a world where every shadow may hide a clue and the cost of truth is steep. In a town haunted by secrets, detective Xavier Kilgarvan's pursuit of justice borders on obsession, blurring the line between duty and desire--and showing that the deepest mysteries lie within.
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