David Lindsey

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Animosity (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Ross Marteau makes a very good living sculpting female nudes of rich and famous women. When a long-term relationship breaks up badly in Paris where he is finishing a commission, he retreats to his hometown, San Rafael, an artist colony in the Texas hill country. But here his newfound peace of mind is permanently, and profoundly, shattered. One day Ross is approached by Celeste Lacan, a newcomer to San Rafael. She asks him to take on a new commission, a sculpture of her younger sister, Leda, promising that the job will present artistic challenges unlike any he has encountered before. Though reluctant, Ross is intrigued: by Celeste herself and by a photo of Leda that shows her to be a genuine beauty. When Ross finally meets Leda, he is stunned to discover that her body is as startlingly unique as her face is beautiful. Just as Celeste predicted, he becomes consumed with portraying the duality of her body...and, perhaps, her soul. Soon Ross is romantically involved with Celeste, but his relationship with Leda is tense and complex. As he begins sculpting Leda, he finds that she is alternately seductive and mystifying, while at the same time Celeste curiously begins to withdraw. Then a violent murder draws Ross deeper into their world. He learns too late that his bond with these two women is older, darker-and more explosive-than he could ever have imagined.

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Autor

I'm a native Texan, and I spent my early years a few miles from the Mexican border in Starr County. Eventually my family moved to West Texas where I grew up in the oil fields and ranches of the Colorado River valley northwest of San Angelo. After graduating from North Texas State University and spending a year in graduate school (focusing on 19th century European literature), I moved to Austin in 1970 where my wife, Joyce, and I still live.

I took an editing job with a small regional press and spent the next decade knocking around in a variety of jobs, including running my own small publishing company for a few years, and editing books in the humanities for the University of Texas Press.

Finally, in 1980, I decided I couldn't wait any longer to try my hand at fiction. I decided to increase my odds of getting published by researching what kinds of fiction had the best chance of finding a publisher. Mystery novels rose to the top of my research results. I don't think I'd ever read a "mystery novel" at that time, but I immediately bought a representative collection of twenty-five popular, famous, and classic mystery novels, including British and European writers. After reading these, and many more, I realized that the "genre" encompassed a startling variety of work, everything from Mickey Spillane to Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Two years later I began my writing career by publishing two mystery novels in the same year. Though I began writing in the mystery/crime genre, the subject matter of the books always leaned into the psychological aspects of human nature. I eventually went on to write fiction in other areas, including thrillers with international settings dealing with national and private intelligence professions.

When I'm not writing, I spend most of my time in my library filled with books predominately in the areas of literature, history, religion and art. My other pleasure is gardening and landscape work where I live in the hilly streets of West Lake Hills (Austin). it's a great pleasure to watch things grow. Joyce and I now sit in the shade of trees that are forty feet tall that we planted when we first moved to this place over thirty-five years ago. That's a good thing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Lindsey
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781963821116
• Artikelnr.: 75092728