Bøker av Matthew Blake

Matthew Blake gjør som Gillian Flynn, A. J. Finn og Alex Michaelides og leverer Anna O - årets thriller. Et mørkt, snedig, originalt og sjokkerende mysterium om en ung kvinne som begår et dobbeltdrap i søvne.For om marerittene dine egentlig ikke er mareritt i det hele tatt? Vi sover i gjennomsnitt 33 år av livet vårt. Men hva skjer egentlig, og hva er vi i stand til, når vi sover? Anna Ogilvy var en lovende tjuefem år gammel forfatter med en lys fremtid, før hun en natt knivstakk to av sine beste venner uten tilsynelatende motiv. Hun ble funnet i en sovende tilstand, en sjelden psykosomatisk lidelse kjent for nevrologer som "resignasjonssyndrom." Dr. Benedict Prince, en rettsmedisinsk psykolog og ekspert innen søvnrelaterte drap, blir kontakten. Hans metoder anses som det siste håpet for å vekke Anna slik at hun kan stå for retten.

"The world will know her name. The average person spends 33 years of their life asleep. But, in this mysterious shadow world, how can we ever know who we really become? In 2019, Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future ahead of her. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn't woken up since. Her deep sleep is known by neurologists as 'resignation syndrome', a rare functional psychosomatic disorder. The tabloid press dubs her 'Sleeping Beauty'. Fast forward to the present day. Dr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related homicides. As a consultant at The Abbey, a sleep clinic based in London's infamous Harley Street, he has studied patients who are held on murder charges; but they have no memory of their crimes. As Anna shows the first signs of stirring, Benedict must determine what really happened that night and whether or not she should be held criminally responsible for her actions when she finally wakes up. Only she knows the truth about that night, but only he knows how to discover it"--

Stories from the Edge identifies a methodology to illuminate the early medieval history of places that lack the compelling evidence to be included in national surveys of the period. It demonstrates that even in seemingly unpromising places something can be said about the people of the period. In landscape terms it is a study of the little world, the local, the manorial complex with its church and burial place, a micro-topography, investigating the construction of social memory. Through this we see the way the early medieval landscape was perceived and how people engaged with it in a creative and imaginative series of responses. Their past and present were negotiated and expressed through the landscape. It is about stories and storytelling, about the creation of memory, the invention of home, spirituality and social hierarchy. This study re-tells some of those stories and recaptures the early medieval sense of place in Pirehill. Above all though, this is an account of living in a mutable landscape and the stories people once told there.