| ISBN |
9781786491305 (paperback) |
| Name |
Dolan-Leach, Caite author. |
| Title |
Dead letters / Caite Dolan-Leach. |
| Published |
London : Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books, 2017. |
| ©2017. |
| Description |
332 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
"Ava's twin sister is missing, maybe even dead. To find her, she must follow the clues from A to Z..." -- Front cover. |
| Summary |
Ava Antipova has her reasons for running away: a failing family vineyard, a romantic betrayal, a mercurial sister, an absent father, a mother slipping into dementia. In Paris, Ava renounces her terribly practical undergraduate degree, acquires a French boyfriend and a taste for much better wine, and erases her past. Two years later, she must return to upstate New York. Her twin sister, Zelda, is dead. Even in a family of alcoholics, Zelda Antipova was the wild one, notorious for her mind games and destructive behaviour. Stuck tending the vineyard and the girls' increasingly unstable mother, Zelda was allegedly burned alive when she passed out in the barn with a lit cigarette. But Ava finds the official explanation a little too neat. A little too Zelda. Then she receives a cryptic message from her sister. |
| Additional form note |
Also issued in electronic version. |
| History |
Caite Dolan-Leach is a literary translator and critic, whose translations from French have been published by Dalkey Archive Press. Her criticism has appeared in Music and Literature, The Quarterly Conversation and the White Review. She currently lives in Paris. Dead Letters is her debut novel. |
| Subjects |
Twin sisters -- Fiction |
| Missing persons -- Fiction |
| Suspense fiction |
| Twin sisters -- Fiction |
| Sisters -- Death -- Fiction |
| Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Suspense fiction |
| Detective and mystery stories |
| Psychological fiction |
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