The Semantics of Murder

Auteur Aifric Campbell

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ISBN

9781852429966

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Aifric Campbell

Uitgeverij

Profile Books Ltd

Jaar van uitgifte

2008

Aantal pagina’s

256

Waar gaat het over?

Jay Hamilton lives a comfortable life in fashionable west London, listening to the minor and major dysfunctions of the over-privileged clients who frequent his psychoanalysis practice. But the darker recesses of his own psyche would not stand up to close examination: his brother Richard, a genius professor of mathematical linguistics, was apparently killed by rent boys in Los Angeles and Jay was the first on the scene. Author Dana Flynn is determined to scratch beneath the surface while researching a biography she intends to write about Richard, and finds that Jay's professional life is as precarious as his personal relationships - he uses his clients - case studies as material for his fiction writing. Such is Jay's hunger for recognition as a creative force that he exploits the vulnerables he counsels, and a decision not to intervene when a troubled patient steals a baby, causes his past to unravel.

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