Pyper, Andrew
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Bartholomew Christian Crane is a criminal defense attorney who wins. Thirty-three, silver-tongued, and driven by a moral code tha
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t preaches, "There are no such things as lies, only misperceptions," Barth is ripe for the first murder trial of his career. Two fourteen-year-old girls have gone missing and are presumed dead in a depressed northern Ontario town. The girls' teacher - now Barth's client - is the prime suspect. Booking himself into the seedy Empire Hotel, Barth begins work on a trial that quickly slides into a nightmarish tableau of psychological terror, where the distinction between dream and reality is as fine as the lines of coke he relies on for inspiration. He feels an uneasy connection to the victims, who presumably lie in the bottom of the lake just outside town . . . the same lake that is believed to be haunted.
About the Author
Andrew Pyper, born and raised in Stratford, Ontario, received undergraduate and master's degrees in English literature from McGill University in Montreal, and a law degree from the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto. Lost Girls is his first novel. The Globe and Mail (Canada) refers to his work as "Exquisite...Pyper's writing moves fluidly from moments of caustic wit to moments of striking insight and beauty."
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