Tangled Web UK Review October 2008
Orpheus Rising by
Bateman
hbk out March 08
Published by Headline
at £17.99
A highly unusual novel that hooks you in and takes you on a journey to most unexpected places. Orpheus Rising is accessible and poignant, exciting and funny. Millionaire, best-selling author Michael Ryan lost his wife Claire when she was shot in a bank raid. He left the town of Brevard, and never visited her grave. Ten years later bar-room drunk and Pulitzer prize-winner, Ambrose, bullies Michael into retuning to Brevard to come to terms with his past. Ambrose will come along for the ride – and to gather material for his own story (another potential prize-winner) about the tragedy. The twosome bicker and fight in true road movie style. Once in Brevard, Michael catches a glimpse of Claire. Wishful thinking or is she really still alive? How can she be? The hunt to trace her leads him into a nightmare world where nothing is as it seems. A brilliant story from an inventive writer.
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder)
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