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Countdown to a Killing

Tom Vaughan Macaulay

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Wen Li, an anxious young woman who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, is tormented by an incessant fear that she might have homicidal impulses. Wen falls for her self-absorbed colleague, Lomax Clipper, who is writing a whodunnit in his spare time. Lomax is pining for Italy and a Sicilian woman he met while on secondment, despite his recurring nightmare about someone being killed on a picturesque street in Palermo. Wen and Lomax both loathe their boss, Julian Ponsonby, who, unbeknown to them, is struggling... as is Fifi de Angelis, a vulnerable man who has been ostracised by his family.Packed with humour, heartache and suspense, this contemporary take on the epistolary novel interweaves the different perspectives of characters whose lives become increasingly entangled.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Reddoor Press
  • Publish Date: Jul 7th, 2022
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
  • EAN: 9781915194084
  • Categories: • Literary

About the Author

Tom Vaughan MacAulay is a solicitor. His first novel, Being Simon Haines, was published in 2017 to high critical acclaim. The novel was selected as a Best Book for Summer by Alex Wade, writing in The Times, Law, while Justin Warshaw, writing in The Times Literary Supplement, described it as a ' grand narrative of a young man on the cusp of the realization of a dream' . Edward Fennell, writing in The Times, the Brief premium, asked whether it would become ' the defining novel for [Tom's] generation about what it means to be a driven corporate lawyer' . Countdown to a Killing is his second novel.

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