The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair

This #1 internationally bestselling thriller, an ingenious book within a book, is about the disappearance of a fifteen-year-old New Hampshire girl and, thirty years later, a young American writer s determination to clear his mentor s name and find the inspiration for his next bestseller.August 30, 1 [...]
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This #1 internationally bestselling thriller, an ingenious book within a book, is about the disappearance of a fifteen-year-old New Hampshire girl and, thirty years later, a young American writer s determination to clear his mentor s name and find the inspiration for his next bestseller.August 30, 1975. This is the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods before she disappears the day Somerset, New Hampshire, loses its innocence.Thirty-three years later, Marcus Goldman, a successful young novelist, visits Somerset to see his mentor, Harry Quebert, one of America s most respected writers, and to find a cure for his writer s block as his publisher s deadline looms. But Marcus plans are violently upended when Harry is suddenly and sensationally implicated in the cold-case murder of Nola Kellergan whom, he admits, he had an affair with. As the national media convicts Harry, Marcus launches his own investigation, following a trail of clues through his mentor s books, the backwoods and isolated beaches of New Hampshire, and the hidden history of Somerset s citizens and the man they hold most dear. To save Harry, his writing career, and eventually even himself, Marcus must answer three questions, all of which are mysteriously connected: Who killed Nola Kellergan? What happened one misty morning in Somerset in the summer of 1975? And how do you write a successful and "true" novel?A global phenomenon, with rights sold in more than thirty countries, "The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair" is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, cinematic literary thriller and an ingenious book within a book by a dazzling young writer."