The Etruscan

Linda Lappin

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American photographer, Harriet Sackett, travels to Italy in 1922 to capture images of ancient Etruscan tombs. There, she falls for Count Federigo, a mysterious and charismatic figure who-jokingly-claims to be an Etruscan spirit. As her obsession with him grows, Harriet's mental state begins to unravel, leading to a series of dark discoveries. The story is told through the perspective of her English cousins, who read Harriet's diary to uncover the truth about Federigo. Is Harriet's lover a conman, a ghost, or a figment of Harriet's imagination? Romance and intrigue unfold amid Tuscan villas and eerie Etruscan landscapes in this prize-winning gothic novel. "... Gothic in the grand style-darkly mysterious, psychologically acute, emotionally subtle." -Tom Wilhelmus, longtime fiction critic for the Hudson Review. Pleasure Boat Studio is proud to announce the first US print & paperback edition of Linda Lappin's tantalizing debut novel, reminiscent of John Fowles' The Magus.

Book Details

Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio
Publish Date: Sep 16th, 2024
Pages: 320
Language: English
Edition: undefined - 0002
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.72in - 0.90lb
EAN: 9798990335806
Categories: • Thrillers - Suspense

About the Author

Lappin, Linda: - LINDA LAPPIN is the prize-winning author of four novels: The Etruscan (Wynkin deWorde, Ireland, 2004 & Pleasure Boat Studio, 2024), Katherine's Wish (Wordcraft, 2008), Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2013 & 2023), and Loving Modigliani: The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne (Serving House Books, 2020). Signatures in Stone was the overall winner of the Daphne DuMaurier prize for best mystery novel of 2013. She is also the author of The Soul of Place: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci, (Travelers Tales, 2015), which won a Nautilus Award in the category of creativity in 2015. A former Fulbright scholar to Italy, she has lived mainly in Rome and Tuscia for over thirty years. In 2023, Pleasure Boat Studio published a deluxe, illustrated, paperback edition of Signatures in Stone to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Bomarzo Park of Monsters. The 2024 publication of The Etruscan by Pleasure Boat Studio is the first U.S. print edition of this book and the first paperback edition in any country. The author is at work on volume 3 of her Tuscia trilogy-Melusine-set in the area of Lake Bolsena, and featuring Daphne DuBlanc, heroine of Signatures in Stone. www.lindalappin.netFollow her on Substack at LL in Italy https: //lindalappin.substack.com/ Instagram @linda_lappin_author

Praise for this book

"Haunting...vivid...entrancing!" -Kirkus

"Think Fifty Shades of... but fifty times better written." -Margaret Bramley, Bookcrossing.com

"Pan dances more deeply in The Etruscan than he does in Lawrence's Etruscan Places." -Mel Ulm, The Reading Life

"I was enthralled by Lappin's Italy... and by that god/demon/boar that flits through its landscape." -Nina Auerbach, critic, author of Our Vampires, Ourselves

"Gorgeously detailed, wickedly fun" -Prairie Schooner

"A tale like a labyrinth" -Andrew Frisardi

"I really couldn't put it down" -Charles Wright

"A wonderful and captivating read" -The Megalithic Portal

"An intelligent, atmospheric novel with finely drawn characters and beautiful language and style. It is not easy to put down...this artfully-written novel inhabits a supernatural landscape... Lappin's gift for atmosphere places her among the finest writers of gothic art." -Southern Indiana Review

"An extraordinary feat" -Susan Tiberghien, Jungian lecturer, author of Looking for Gold: a Year in Jungian Analysis

"A real page-turner" -Kathryn Lang, senior editor Southern Methodist University Press

"A writer to watch" -David Applefield, editor of Frank

"A powerful first novel" -Thomas E. Kennedy author of The Copenhagen Quartet

"... Gothic in the grand style-darkly mysterious, psychologically acute, emotionally subtle." -Tom Wilhelmus, longtime fiction critic for the Hudson Review

"...A compelling plot, ...intriguing characters, a vivid sense of place, and strong descriptive writing." -Walter Cummins, The Literary Review