Synopsis
Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the exclusive Hotel Caiette. When New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis walks into the hotel and hands her his card, it is the beginning of their life together. That same night, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. When Alkaitis's investment fund is revealed to be a Ponzi scheme, Leon loses his retirement savings in the fallout, but Vincent seemingly walks away unscathed. Until, a decade later, she disappears from the deck of one of Leon's ships ...
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- ISBN: 9781509882830
- Number of pages: 320
- Weight: 224g
- Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 20 mm
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A deliciously mysterious read
A stunningly written slow-burner with plot and character unravellings that are truly worth the wait.
Although I very much enjoyed the novel, there are so... READ MORE
Excellent - but don’t expect another Station Eleven!
The only other book I’ve read by St.John Mandell is Station Eleven , which I thought was fantastic (current world situation notwithstanding!). I bought... READ MORE
NOT a ghost story
First and foremost - this isn't a ghost story. Yes, dead people are glimpsed by the living but only in the sense that we've all met people who claim they "... READ MORE
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