tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15258276.post3084599844042481514..comments2023-11-05T01:05:41.190-07:00Comments on International Noir Fiction: Arnaldur's new Iclandic noirGlenn Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869155065647936216noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15258276.post-7027462479370944862012-10-23T10:29:29.801-07:002012-10-23T10:29:29.801-07:00Dear Glenn,
I just discovered your site and have ...Dear Glenn,<br /><br />I just discovered your site and have been stuck here for a while! So let me suggest my novel The Obsession. Here's a quick summary:<br /><br />This first entry in the Truth Beauty Trilogy is a vibrant novel of suspense and murder, by turns intriguing and surprising, as three smart, driven people match wits with their lives at stake.<br /><br />At a conference in Italy’s lake district, American grad student Stanford Lyle is enchanted with Lina Lentini, a lovely Italian professor of comparative lit. And when she lectures for a term at his mid-Michigan university, she considers a fling with Stan—until she meets John Martens, a professor, author and Stan’s mentor. In her passionate affair with John, Lina becomes Stan’s obsession, a hated nemesis for John’s troubled wife, and the object of a vicious series of attacks aimed at destroying her reputation.<br /><br />Lina loves the line from Keats, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” even as her life fills with duplicity. John is pledged to do the right thing with his wife but often does not. And Stan surprises himself with the depth of his own perversity.<br /><br />Forced back to her home in Bologna, Lina begins to reset her life. Then Stan appears on her doorstep. When John joins them, Stan schemes, threatens and stalks the lovers, first under the city’s ancient porticoes and finally to the legendary Sicilian mountain town of Taormina with a shocking confrontation on the slopes of volcanic Mt. Etna.<br /><br />For more info: www.tvlocicero.com. And here are a few lines from a new review by your colleague Victoria Best at Tales from the Reading Room (http://litlove.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/2918/#comments):<br /><br />"Gone Girl has had a huge impact on the book world since it came out; whilst the other novel I read, The Obsession by T. V. LoCicero will be unknown to most people, I imagine. But both are pacy, gripping narratives about love grown monstrous and out of control…fascinating portraits of gender rancour, or the amazing ability men and women have to love and loathe each other with intensity. The Obsession is more straightforward in its premise; sexuality remains a dark and vexed region where reason holds no sway and the agony of unrequited love can provoke unstable individuals to violence…[T]his was the first self-published novel I’ve ever read, and I was properly impressed and surprised by the quality of the story and the writing."<br /><br />If you're interested, I'll be pleased to get you a copy, paperback or ebook.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />TomT.V. LoCicerohttp://www.tvlocicero.comnoreply@blogger.com