Jack Curtis
The
ConfessorAbout the Author Bibliography
Jack Curtis
The
Confessor
About the Author
Bibliography
The Confessor
I want to report a murder
Imagine a man who has made killing his life's work. A career murderer, if you like.
Someone with an unerring nose for vulnerability . . a killer with an intense and gruesome
curiosity about the moment when his victims pass from life to death.
For a long time he wanted only to do his work in peace: to select his victim, to take that
person's life, to watch as it ebbed. But now keeping the secret isn't enough. Killing is a
lonely business. He. is greedy for a soul- mate, for someone who will understand, someone
to talk to, even as he continues to lure and kill his prey.
It's like rolling dice. He makes a phone call to the nearest police station, the first
person will hear his confession. The killer has spent a lifetime nosing out those who are
troubled, those at risk, so maybe it's no coincidence that the call is taken by DI Joe
Morgan: Joe with a colleague who wants to bury him; Joe who doesn't like himself much; Joe
whose beautiful, danger-prone wife is looking for adventure ...
THE CONFESSOR
A brilliant and disturbing novel about murder, about policing, about a tragic
tangle of relationships, about London's outcasts, about two men who cannot escape one
another.
Jack Curtis has written great thrillers which have garnered wonderful reviews, but he has
never written a novel as good as this. Reviews of
previous novels
Crow's Parliament
"An extraordinary first novel" Len Deighton
"This new novelist seems to have sprung fully-armed from whatever head in the
pantheon of Gods begets thriller-writers" Irish Times
"A real cracker of a first novel. Mr Curtis has created a colourful hero,
combined him with an intricate plot and added that extra something which gives the recipe
real zest" Financial Times
Glory
" A mesmerising and beguiling thriller that won’t let you put it
down" New England Review of Books
"In the world of suspense literature it is rare to find a work that has so
much of the classic about it. With Glory, Jack Curtis has raised the genre and the
expectations of his audience to a new state" New England Review of Books
"Extra-strong, sinuous writing here cements Curtis’ stature as one of the
finest stylists in the thriller field" Kirkus Reviews
Mirrors Kill
"The action is brisk, the language exhilarating" Tim Sebastian.
Mail on Sunday "What makes the book so readable is his skilled storytelling and
stylish prose" Sunday Telegraph
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jack Curtis is a Pseudonym. As David Harsent he is known as an award-winning
poet, and as the librettist for Harrison Birtwistle’s Gawain. As Jack Curtis he is
the author of five previous thrillers which have been translated into fourteen different
languages.
Born in Devonshire, the son of a bricklayer, he spent the first ten years of his working
life as a bookseller in Aylesbury, while also writing reviews for the TLS, the
Spectator, the New Review and the New Statesman. He then worked in
publishing and was, for a time Editorial Director of Arrow Books, where he published
writers as various as John McVicar and Malcolm Bradbury, Angela Carter and Ruth Rendell. Jack Curtis now divides his time between London and
a remote valley in the West Country.
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