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Epiphany
PRAISE FOR DAVID HEWSON
Jeffery Deaver...
Hewson is a daunting talent — a writer who is a master stylist.
Steve Berry...
David Hewson is one of the finest thriller writers working today. A born stylist.
Lee Child...
(Dante's Numbers)...is easily the best yet in a really terrific series.
Peter James...
Hewson is one of our finest crime writers. Absorbing, intelligent, and with a staggeringly vivid sense of place.
PRAISE FOR EPIPHANY
'John Fowles on acid,' The Guardian
'David Hewson has an altogether wider range of literary and cultural references than most thriller writers. Impressive,' Esquire
'It's one of those rare books that's damn hard to put down. A tantalising mystery, a thriller, an intense trip into the seamy underside of Flower Power, it balances past and present so cunningly and readably you just can't stop zooming through the pages.' Campbell Armstrong, author of Jig
A group of Californian students frequent a remote old house to experiment with LSD. One of them, Michael Quinn, is both highly intelligent and truly evil. The search for pleasure turns to nightmare when a child is killed. Quinn is responsible for this and other crimes, but implicates the others who include the gentle Paul Dunsany and the pragmatic Hal Jamieson. As the police net begins to close, it is Jamieson who leads the search for an escape.
Twenty years later, just as Quinn is unexpectedly released from jail, a mysterious young Englishwoman named Joni Lascelles begins to ask question that will unravel the past. She seeks out Dunsany. Does he want to get involved again in this dangerous business? In the end, he has no choice. Because as the trail leads back into the closed world of software mogul Hal Jamieson, it becomes apparent that the horror of the past is poised to engulf the present, leaving no one untouched by its power.
Turn by turn, shifting effortlessly between to eras twenty years apart, the story is played out with relentless compuldsion to an overwhelming climax. Evoking music and the hidden world of quantum science, murder and the search for redemption, Epiphany is a superb thriller evoking the west coast of America in 1975 and 1995.
This was David Hewson's second novel, first published to great acclaim in the UK in 1997 and never before available directly in the US.
Jeffery Deaver...
Hewson is a daunting talent — a writer who is a master stylist.
Steve Berry...
David Hewson is one of the finest thriller writers working today. A born stylist.
Lee Child...
(Dante's Numbers)...is easily the best yet in a really terrific series.
Peter James...
Hewson is one of our finest crime writers. Absorbing, intelligent, and with a staggeringly vivid sense of place.
PRAISE FOR EPIPHANY
'John Fowles on acid,' The Guardian
'David Hewson has an altogether wider range of literary and cultural references than most thriller writers. Impressive,' Esquire
'It's one of those rare books that's damn hard to put down. A tantalising mystery, a thriller, an intense trip into the seamy underside of Flower Power, it balances past and present so cunningly and readably you just can't stop zooming through the pages.' Campbell Armstrong, author of Jig
A group of Californian students frequent a remote old house to experiment with LSD. One of them, Michael Quinn, is both highly intelligent and truly evil. The search for pleasure turns to nightmare when a child is killed. Quinn is responsible for this and other crimes, but implicates the others who include the gentle Paul Dunsany and the pragmatic Hal Jamieson. As the police net begins to close, it is Jamieson who leads the search for an escape.
Twenty years later, just as Quinn is unexpectedly released from jail, a mysterious young Englishwoman named Joni Lascelles begins to ask question that will unravel the past. She seeks out Dunsany. Does he want to get involved again in this dangerous business? In the end, he has no choice. Because as the trail leads back into the closed world of software mogul Hal Jamieson, it becomes apparent that the horror of the past is poised to engulf the present, leaving no one untouched by its power.
Turn by turn, shifting effortlessly between to eras twenty years apart, the story is played out with relentless compuldsion to an overwhelming climax. Evoking music and the hidden world of quantum science, murder and the search for redemption, Epiphany is a superb thriller evoking the west coast of America in 1975 and 1995.
This was David Hewson's second novel, first published to great acclaim in the UK in 1997 and never before available directly in the US.
434 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1996
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About the author
David Hewson
112 books527 followersDAVID HEWSON was born in Yorkshire in 1953. His books range from the Nic Costa series set in Italy to adaptations of The Killing in Copenhagen and the Pieter Vos series in Amsterdam.
He's adapted Shakespeare for Audible and in 2018 won the Audie for best original work for Romeo and Juliet: A Novel, narrated by Richard Armitage.
2019 sees the release of a new, full-cast Audible drama set in New York, Last Seen Wearing, and a standalone novel set in the Faroe Islands, Devil's Fjord.
Series:
Nic Costa
Pieter Vos
The Killing
He's adapted Shakespeare for Audible and in 2018 won the Audie for best original work for Romeo and Juliet: A Novel, narrated by Richard Armitage.
2019 sees the release of a new, full-cast Audible drama set in New York, Last Seen Wearing, and a standalone novel set in the Faroe Islands, Devil's Fjord.
Series:
Nic Costa
Pieter Vos
The Killing
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April 13, 2023
Setting: Palo Alto, California (1975-6) & Seattle, Washington State (1995-6).
In Palo Alto in 1975, five-year-old twins Florrie and Miles, visiting from England, wait outside a music shop for their mother, dressed in angel outfits for a Christmas event - by the time their mother emerges from the shop, Miles has disappeared. Elsewhere in Palo Alto, psychopathic college student Michael Quinn is with his band of 'followers' in a remote house, taking LSD and looking for kicks. The police search for Miles turns up a child's body (not Miles) and eventually leads to a ransom demand and a bungled money drop, as a result of which Quinn is jailed...
In 1995 in Seattle, Michael Quinn is about to be released from prison and travels to Seattle to meet up with one of his former 'followers'. At the same time, Englishwoman Joni Lascelles arrives in Seattle to try to find answers about the mysterious disappearance of Miles Seymour by meeting Michael Quinn. But Michael's former friends don't necessarily want anyone meeting Quinn as there are clearly secrets to be kept....
This was quite an old book (1996), which has been languishing on my shelves for just over 10 years, but is one of the early books written by the author of The Killing - which was such a good book and TV series. It took me a while to get into this one but, once I did so, I loved the storylines and the characters. The book jumped back and forth in time from the 1970s to the 1990s and I just wished the chapters had been headed up with the year - this was done for the prologue and Chapter One but then stopped! - so it would have been easier to follow the timeline. This was a great story though and, although I got an inkling of what had happened in 1975, I was not totally correct and the author was still able to surprise and shock me at the end. Excellent read - 8.5/10 (would have been 9 if the chapters had been 'dated'!).
In Palo Alto in 1975, five-year-old twins Florrie and Miles, visiting from England, wait outside a music shop for their mother, dressed in angel outfits for a Christmas event - by the time their mother emerges from the shop, Miles has disappeared. Elsewhere in Palo Alto, psychopathic college student Michael Quinn is with his band of 'followers' in a remote house, taking LSD and looking for kicks. The police search for Miles turns up a child's body (not Miles) and eventually leads to a ransom demand and a bungled money drop, as a result of which Quinn is jailed...
In 1995 in Seattle, Michael Quinn is about to be released from prison and travels to Seattle to meet up with one of his former 'followers'. At the same time, Englishwoman Joni Lascelles arrives in Seattle to try to find answers about the mysterious disappearance of Miles Seymour by meeting Michael Quinn. But Michael's former friends don't necessarily want anyone meeting Quinn as there are clearly secrets to be kept....
This was quite an old book (1996), which has been languishing on my shelves for just over 10 years, but is one of the early books written by the author of The Killing - which was such a good book and TV series. It took me a while to get into this one but, once I did so, I loved the storylines and the characters. The book jumped back and forth in time from the 1970s to the 1990s and I just wished the chapters had been headed up with the year - this was done for the prologue and Chapter One but then stopped! - so it would have been easier to follow the timeline. This was a great story though and, although I got an inkling of what had happened in 1975, I was not totally correct and the author was still able to surprise and shock me at the end. Excellent read - 8.5/10 (would have been 9 if the chapters had been 'dated'!).
April 11, 2011
This was the first Hewson novel I've read, having been a fan of his blog, which offers great advice on writing, thoughts on the publishing industry, and even on writing software and tools. I had some problems with this novel however. It alternated back and forth between about a half dozen different points of view, and then within those, back and forth between two different time periods. Sometimes I struggled to keep them straight or understand exactly which one I was in as one chapter led to the next. I think it would be an improved work if it was less confusing for the reader. Also be warned, this book delves into some dark topics, including incest, child sexual abuse, and child murder, so it won't be for everyone.
March 2, 2018
When a story begins with siblings named Miles and Flora you expect something a bit strange, and it is. A convoluted tale of madness, murder and guilt, hard work to keep track of at times.
December 12, 2021
I remember this being rather good
October 20, 2023
I really like the books from David Hewson and I'm really jealous of both his writing style and his production. This book is no exception to the rule, it's well written and a very entertaining story.
September 7, 2014
Tämän kirjan näin ensimmäisen kerran antikvariaatin ikkunassa jokin aika sitten. Ihan pelkän nimen perusteella kiinnostus heräsi ja niinpä varasin sen kirjastosta. Hieno tarina, monitasoinen ja kiinnostava. Tuntui piinaavan jännittävältä odottaa pikkuhiljaa avautuvaa tietoa siitä, mitä kidnapatulle Milesille todella tapahtui. Mielenkiintoinen, kahdessa ajassa etenevä kertomus.
March 17, 2010
I think it could be a good read but I'm really taken aback with this increasing violence in books (I'm used to it but soon I will pass). As if you must discover a new way of shocking readers for each book...
May 28, 2012
Strange, very very strange.
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