'An outstanding mystery thriller… Noir fans won’t want to miss it' - Publishers Weekly (Starred)
'A riveting, brutal journey into the high stakes world of legacy art and inherited wealth' - Denise Mina, author of the Garnethill trilogy and The Long Drop
The Goldenacre – a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh – has been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic genius, enthrals the art world, but behind it lies a dark and violent mystery.
Thomas Tallis, an art expert with a trouble past, is trying to uncover the truth about the painting's complex history, while dogged newspaper reporter Shona Sandison is investigating a series of shocking murders in Edinburgh.
Both investigators soon become engulfed in the machinations of money, crime and identity in a literary thriller set amid the seen and unseen forces at work in modern Scotland.
Winner of the Shamus Award for the Best First P.I. Novel
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'Philip Miller is a fine, painterly writer - Edinburgh at dusk, for example, is “a weave of shadows hung in a net of light” - and he has created a first-class thriller'
" - Times Crime Club, Pick of the Week
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'Unusual and elegant, Philip Miller’s third novel takes the Tartan Noir genre in some new and unexpected directions'
" - The Scotsman
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'outstanding mystery thriller…In a style recalling the brutal dreariness of Le Carre, Miller describes a pivotal character as ‘sharp and severe as a snapped bone.’ It’s also an apt description of this biting tale of society in decline. Noir fans won’t want to miss it'
" - Publishers Weekly (starred)
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'Its vivid sense of location is one of this engaging mystery’s great strengths'
" - Herald
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'The Goldenacre features a dense cast of vivid characters, not least Tallis, a tortured pilgrim worthy of a Graham Greene tale. The book—which explores through prose the interplay between light and darkness in the physical and moral worlds—is an ambitious and wonderfully realized work'
" - The Wall Street Journal
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'This book is a gripping exploration of the darker side of modern society'
" - LoveReading
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'Philip Miller's superb debut, The Goldenacre, is a prime example of Scottish noir'
" - Gumshoereview.com
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'Like its namesake, The Goldenacre occupies its own unclassifiable space, as much a meditation on beauty and loss as it is crime fiction'
" - Air Mail
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'The book for you if you are looking for something a little out of the ordinary in terms of your Scottish crime fiction'
" - Undiscovered Scotland
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'Tartan noir hobnobs with the art world in The Goldenacre, Philip Miller's clever, complex and improbably touching thriller set in Edinburgh, a city whose reputation for quiet elegance and relative calm gets quite a workout'
" - Shelf Awareness
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'Unputdownable'
" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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'This excellent well-plotted noir thriller pits unique characters against the hard-edges of modern life'
" - Stop, You're Killing Me!
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'this story... is mesmerizing in its use of atmosphere, poetic language, and ingenious plot construction'
" - Santa Fe New Mexican
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'It is the magic way oddly juxtaposed words manage to convey the essence of a scene, the feelings of a character, or the ugliness of an act, more vividly than any dictionary-precise language, that makes The Goldenacre a thoroughly worthwhile read'
" - Portland Book Review
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'The Goldenacre is a prime example of a good Edinburgh novel… an excellent read for those who enjoy Tartan Noir and want to read something different to your usual hard-bitten detective story'
" - Scottish Field
"
'Philip Miller has written a stylish thriller which is a breath of fresh air and which deserves to be acknowledged as such ... It’s a crime novel for readers who think they don’t like the genre, and a literary novel for people who would normally stick to crime'
" - Snack Magazine
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'[Philip Miller] constructs an intricate and intelligent plot and peoples it with richly imagined and deeply realized characters . . . An authoritative work on art and an accomplished work of art, The Goldenacre also represents a shrewd study of family dynamics and a splendid sample of literary crime fiction'
" - The Free Lance-Star
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'an artful whydunnit with a lyrical style and memorable characters, and captures several parts of Edinburgh perfectly'
" - Crime Book Girl
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'A riveting, brutal journey into the high stakes world of legacy art and inherited wealth' - Denise Mina, author of the Garnethill trilogy and The Long Drop
The Goldenacre – a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh – has been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic genius, enthrals the art world, but behind it lies a dark and violent mystery.
Thomas Tallis, an art expert with a trouble past, is trying to uncover the truth about the painting's complex history, while dogged newspaper reporter Shona Sandison is investigating a series of shocking murders in Edinburgh.
Both investigators soon become engulfed in the machinations of money, crime and identity in a literary thriller set amid the seen and unseen forces at work in modern Scotland.
Winner of the Shamus Award for the Best First P.I. Novel
"
'Philip Miller is a fine, painterly writer - Edinburgh at dusk, for example, is “a weave of shadows hung in a net of light” - and he has created a first-class thriller'
" - Times Crime Club, Pick of the Week
"
'Unusual and elegant, Philip Miller’s third novel takes the Tartan Noir genre in some new and unexpected directions'
" - The Scotsman
"
'outstanding mystery thriller…In a style recalling the brutal dreariness of Le Carre, Miller describes a pivotal character as ‘sharp and severe as a snapped bone.’ It’s also an apt description of this biting tale of society in decline. Noir fans won’t want to miss it'
" - Publishers Weekly (starred)
"
'Its vivid sense of location is one of this engaging mystery’s great strengths'
" - Herald
"
'The Goldenacre features a dense cast of vivid characters, not least Tallis, a tortured pilgrim worthy of a Graham Greene tale. The book—which explores through prose the interplay between light and darkness in the physical and moral worlds—is an ambitious and wonderfully realized work'
" - The Wall Street Journal
"
'This book is a gripping exploration of the darker side of modern society'
" - LoveReading
"
'Philip Miller's superb debut, The Goldenacre, is a prime example of Scottish noir'
" - Gumshoereview.com
"
'Like its namesake, The Goldenacre occupies its own unclassifiable space, as much a meditation on beauty and loss as it is crime fiction'
" - Air Mail
"
'The book for you if you are looking for something a little out of the ordinary in terms of your Scottish crime fiction'
" - Undiscovered Scotland
"
'Tartan noir hobnobs with the art world in The Goldenacre, Philip Miller's clever, complex and improbably touching thriller set in Edinburgh, a city whose reputation for quiet elegance and relative calm gets quite a workout'
" - Shelf Awareness
"
'Unputdownable'
" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"
'This excellent well-plotted noir thriller pits unique characters against the hard-edges of modern life'
" - Stop, You're Killing Me!
"
'this story... is mesmerizing in its use of atmosphere, poetic language, and ingenious plot construction'
" - Santa Fe New Mexican
"
'It is the magic way oddly juxtaposed words manage to convey the essence of a scene, the feelings of a character, or the ugliness of an act, more vividly than any dictionary-precise language, that makes The Goldenacre a thoroughly worthwhile read'
" - Portland Book Review
"
'The Goldenacre is a prime example of a good Edinburgh novel… an excellent read for those who enjoy Tartan Noir and want to read something different to your usual hard-bitten detective story'
" - Scottish Field
"
'Philip Miller has written a stylish thriller which is a breath of fresh air and which deserves to be acknowledged as such ... It’s a crime novel for readers who think they don’t like the genre, and a literary novel for people who would normally stick to crime'
" - Snack Magazine
"
'[Philip Miller] constructs an intricate and intelligent plot and peoples it with richly imagined and deeply realized characters . . . An authoritative work on art and an accomplished work of art, The Goldenacre also represents a shrewd study of family dynamics and a splendid sample of literary crime fiction'
" - The Free Lance-Star
"
'an artful whydunnit with a lyrical style and memorable characters, and captures several parts of Edinburgh perfectly'
" - Crime Book Girl
Формат: Скан PDf
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