Author(s): Michael Collins

Fiction

Small town America as Michael Collin's heart of darkness, a territory he maps with infinite precision in this new novel of murder and menace. Almost thirty years ago, when Frank was five, his parents burned to death in a remote Michigan town. Now Frank's uncle is dead too, shot by a mysterious stranger who now lies in a coma in the local hospital. Frank wants answers to questions about his own past, and he believes that the stranger, who hangs between life and death, might be able to supply them. Brilliant and unsettling, this story of the unquiet dead from the priz-winning Irish author of THE KEEPERS OF THE TRUTH charts a dark passage through modern mores. Michael Collins was born in Limerick in 1964. He was educated in Ireland and America. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter. Trade Paperback