· “A noirish, atmospheric tale Uniquely sinister Like Agatha Christie, Jonathan Moore is a writer who gets you hooked on a plot where poison is the cold, clinical method of execution. The Poison Artist is a debut that’s both an exemplary psychological crime novel and a masterful exercise in intoxicating dread. It’s a strange, sensual story to be savoured like the finest single malt whisky.”Brand: HarperCollins Publishers. Moore dribbles small amounts of information here and there, like bread crumbs, but he leaves the big questions of the sexy but strange woman, Caleb’s past, and the reason Bridget beaned him with a tumbler hanging until the very end, when everything is kinda-sorta explained. Absinthe, oysters, the painter John Singer Sargent, a classic car, and a string of disturbing deaths, possibly brought about . Jonathan Moore is an Edgar Award and Hammett Prize nominated author of six novels. His third novel, THE POISON ARTIST, was a selection of the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. His novel THE NIGHT MARKET was optioned as a feature film by Amazon Studios and Mandeville Films, and his books have been translated into 12 languages/5.
Jonathan Moore and his wife live in Hawaii. When he's not writing, or fixing his boat, Jonathan is an attorney. Before completing law school in New Orleans, he was an English teacher, a whitewater raft guide on the Rio Grande, a counsellor at a Texas wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, and an investigator for a criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C. The Poison Artist is a gripping literary thriller about obsession and damage, about a man unmoored by an unspeakable past and an irresistible woman who offers the ultimate escape. Covers. About. Excerpt. Buy. Jonathan Moore has written a wickedly smart, emotionally complex novel that will haunt you long after you turn the last page. The Poison Artist by Jonathan Moore was published in the UK by Orion Books on 10th March and is available in hardcover, paperback, eBook and audio formats | bltadwin.ru | bltadwin.ru | Waterstones | Goodreads | Jonathan Moore is a Bram Stoker Award nominated author of five novels.
Jonathan Moore is an Edgar Award and Hammett Prize nominated author of six novels. His third novel, THE POISON ARTIST, was a selection of the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. His novel THE NIGHT MARKET was optioned as a feature film by Amazon Studios and Mandeville Films, and his books have been translated into 12 languages. In Jonathan Moore's incredibly intelligent and creepy psychological horror/suspense novel The Poison Artist, San Francisco toxicologist Caleb Maddox has an emotional breakup with his girlfriend and is nursing his misery over a few drinks in a nondescript bar. He meets a femme-fatale type over a class of absinthe and becomes infatuated with this woman whose obsession with secrecy is as mysterious and enticing as the timing in which they meet. “A noirish, atmospheric tale Uniquely sinister Like Agatha Christie, Jonathan Moore is a writer who gets you hooked on a plot where poison is the cold, clinical method of execution. The Poison Artist is a debut that’s both an exemplary psychological crime novel and a masterful exercise in intoxicating dread. It’s a strange, sensual story to be savoured like the finest single malt whisky.”.
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