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About Flynn Berry
Flynn Berry is the author of Under the Harrow, which won the Edgar Award for best first novel, and A Double Life, which will be published in July 2018. Under the Harrow has been translated into sixteen languages and was optioned for television by Paramount. Flynn is a graduate of Brown University and the Michener Center, and was a Yaddo fellow.
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A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Thriller of 2021
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“If you love a mystery, then you’ll devour [Northern Spy] . . . I loved this thrill ride of a book.”—Reese Witherspoon
“A chilling, gorgeously written tale . . . Berry keeps the tension almost unbearably high.” –The New York Times Book Review
The acclaimed author of Under the Harrow and A Double Life returns with her most riveting novel to date: the story of two sisters who become entangled with the IRA
A producer at the BBC and mother to a new baby, Tessa is at work in Belfast one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground in the two decades since the Good Friday Agreement, but they never really went away, and lately bomb threats, security checkpoints, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the news reporter requests the public's help in locating those responsible for the robbery, security footage reveals Tessa's sister, Marian, pulling a black ski mask over her face.
The police believe Marian has joined the IRA, but Tessa is convinced she must have been abducted or coerced; the sisters have always opposed the violence enacted in the name of uniting Ireland. And besides, Marian is vacationing on the north coast. Tessa just spoke to her yesterday.
When the truth about Marian comes to light, Tessa is faced with impossible choices that will test the limits of her ideals, the bonds of her family, her notions of right and wrong, and her identity as a sister and a mother. Walking an increasingly perilous road, she wants nothing more than to protect the one person she loves more fiercely than her sister: her infant son, Finn.
Riveting, atmospheric, and exquisitely written, Northern Spy is at once a heart-pounding story of the contemporary IRA and a moving portrait of sister- and motherhood, and of life in a deeply divided society.
“Breathtaking . . . As shocking as it is satisfying.” —The New York Times Book Review
A riveting and sophisticated page-turner inspired by one of the most shocking true crimes in 20th century Britain: the Lord Lucan case.
“A better person would forgive him. A different sort of better person would have found him years ago.”
Claire is a hardworking doctor leading a simple, quiet life in London. She is also the daughter of the most notorious murder suspect in the country, though no one knows it.
Nearly thirty years ago, while Claire and her brother slept upstairs, a brutal crime was committed in her family's townhouse. The next morning, her father's car was found abandoned near the English Channel, with bloodstains on the front seat. Her mother insisted she'd seen him in the house that night, but his powerful, privileged friends maintained his innocence. The first lord accused of murder in more than a century, he has been missing ever since.
When the police tell Claire they've found him, her carefully calibrated existence begins to fracture. She doesn't know if she's the daughter of a murderer or a wronged man, but Claire will soon learn how far she'll go to finally find the truth.
Loosely inspired by one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of the 20th century – the Lord Lucan case – A Double Life is at once a riveting page-turner and a moving reflection on women and violence, trauma and memory, and class and privilege.
Named a Must-Read by Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, O Magazine, BBC, CrimeReads, and PureWow
The riveting, Edgar Award-winning first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Northern Spy and A Double Life
When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel’s familiar house, what she finds is entirely different: her sister has been the victim of a brutal murder.
Stunned and adrift, Nora finds she can’t return to her former life. An unsolved assault in the past has shaken her faith in the police, and she can’t trust them to find her sister’s killer. Haunted by the murder and the secrets that surround it, Nora is under the harrow: distressed and in danger. As Nora’s fear turns to obsession, she becomes as unrecognizable as the sister her investigation uncovers.
A riveting psychological thriller and a haunting exploration of the fierce love between two sisters, the distortions of grief, and the terrifying power of the past, Under the Harrow marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
Named one of the "10 Best Mystery Books and Thrillers of the Year" by The Washington Post
Named one of the best books of the year by The Atlantic
Como si Elena Ferrante hubiera escrito Broadchurch.
Cuando Nora se baja del tren para visitar a su hermana Rachel, lo último que espera es descubrir el cadáver de esta en el salón de su casa familiar, víctima de un brutal asesinato. Muy pronto, en medio de la investigación policíaca que rodea al crimen, Nora se sumirá en una espiral de angustia y temor, como si los secretos del pasado hubieran despertado. El miedo de Nora se transforma en una obsesión implacable: encontrar al asesino de su hermana, aunque eso suponga poner en riesgo su propia vida y no distinguir la verdad de la mentira.
Flynn Berry nos regala una narración de tono perfecto, un thriller literario de suspense psicológico y un personaje inolvidable, Nora, que transita entre heroína y víctima e inocente y culpable.
Ganadora del premio Edgar Award a la mejor novela debut.
Mejor Libro del Año según The Atlantic.
Top diez mejores libros de misterio según The Washington Post.
"Un emocionante thriller para fans de La chica del tren y de Perdida: de lectura compulsiva y escrito por una nueva y original voz. Bajo la tensión de la historia palpita una autora de primera categoría (…) Sus frases precisas recuerdan la meticulosidad narrativa de Hitchock."
The New York Times Book Review
"Un estudio psicológico estremecedor sobre el dolor, la paranoia y los recuerdos; un retrato inteligente de una compleja relación entre dos hermanas; y más que todo eso, un misterio y un asesinato por resolver (…) Berry aborda grandes temas, como el poder y la sumisión de las mujeres y los convierte en una historia emocionante y tensa. No hay un ápice de pedantería en la inteligente y habilidosa narración que construye la autora."
The Atlantic
"Exquisitamente preciso e intenso (…) Hay notas de Rebeca, el clásico de Daphne du Maurier, pero (…) En la tormenta es un thriller psicológico soberbio, y se merece ser elogiado por su excelente y original singularidad."
The Washington Post
"La trama te envuelve desde la primera línea. La prosa de Berry es libre y mordaz."
The Huffington Post
"Flynn Berry enlaza el tema de la violencia contra las mujeres, las trampas de la memoria y lo hace con más literatura que Paula Hawkins y cien veces más intriga (…) Una historia perfectamente pulida de prosa cuidadosa, con una interesante y helada desesperación en su esqueleto."
USA Today
"Una novela atmosférica que se lee de un tirón, escrita por una narradora de raza".
Rosamund Lupton, autora de Hermana
"Un thriller psicológico literario (…) La lectura imperdible de la temporada."
Elle
"Obsesión y memoria, furia y reproches recorren este atmosférico debut que lleva más allá
Claire es una médico de familia que lleva una vida tranquila y humilde en Londres. Pero esconde un terrible secreto: es la hija de uno de los asesinos más conocidos de la historia de Inglaterra. Su padre, lord Spenser, mató a su niñera a sangre fría y desapareció del país.
Cerca de treinta años después del crimen, la policía contacta con ella: han visto a un hombre que encaja con la descripción de su padre. A partir de ese momento, su vida empieza a desmoronarse. ¿Es la hija de un asesino o de un hombre injustamente acusado? Claire se verá obligada a descubrir hasta dónde está dispuesta a llegar para conocer la verdad y cerrar las heridas de su pasado.
"Una lectura fascinante y sumamente adictiva."
Paula Hawkins, autora de La chica del tren
"Una novela apasionante."
Laura Lippman, autora de Cuando me haya ido
"Flynn Berry demuestra que su prosa es tan intensa como deliciosa."
New York Times