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Mixing murder mystery with darkly comic horror, Death in Her Hands is an intricate story of obsession from the bestselling author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
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From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense.
While on her daily walk with her dog in the nearby woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body.
Shaky even on her best days, she is also alone, and new to this area, having moved here from her long-time home after the death of her husband, and now deeply alarmed. Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown obsession, as she explores multiple theories about who Magda was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world, and the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But is there either a more innocent explanation for all this, or a much more sinister one - one that strikes closer to home?
In this triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, we must decide whether the stories we tell ourselves guide us closer to the truth or keep us further from it.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 2928377007294
Number of pages: 272
Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
Ottessa Moshfegh’s books are quite difficult to slot in to a specific category. Her subjects varies from psychological murder stories to horror with touch of very dark humour.
The story starts with the elderly widow...
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I love Ottessa Moshfegh and her writing and I really enjoyed this one. I think it's a book that you could read in a lot of different ways and I just enjoyed the atmosphere of it all, too. It's not my... More
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