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Bezig met laden... The Archivistdoor Rex Pickett
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Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML: When archivist Nadia Fontaine is found dead of an apparent drowning, Emily Snow is hired by Regents University to finish the job she started??to organize and process the papers of Raymond West, a famous Pulitzer Prize??winning author who has been short-listed for the Nobel. Emily's job comes with its inherent pressures. West's wife, Elizabeth, is an heiress who's about to donate $25 million to the Memorial Library??an eight-story architectural marvel that is the crown jewel of the university. The inaugural event in just a few months will be a gala for the who's who of San Diego to celebrate the unveiling of the Raymond West Collection and the financial gift that made it all possible. As Emily sets to work on the West papers, it begins to dawn on her that several items have gone missing from the collection. To trace their whereabouts, she gains unsupervised access to the highly restricted "dark archives," in which she opens a Pandora's box of erotically and intellectually charged correspondence between Raymond West and the late Nadia Fontaine. Through their archived emails, Emily goes back a year in time and relives the tragic trajectory of their passionate love affair. Did Nadia really drown accidentally, as the police report concluded, or could it have been suicide, or, even worse, murder? Compelled to complete the collection and find the truth, Emily unwittingly morphs into an adult Nancy Drew and a one-woman archivist crusader on a mission to right the historical record. Twisting slowly like a tourniquet, The Archivist turns into a suspenseful murder mystery with multiple and intersecting layers. Not just a whodunit, it is also a profound meditation on love, privacy, and the ethics of destroying or preserving materials of a highly personal nat Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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“The Archivist” has the tension of a tale of international espionage, but these things happen within the intellectually-safe cocoon of a library. Who would think that murder, treachery, and breach of trust could happen in such a nice, quiet, educational place? The initial premise seems so wonderfully academic ― a famous, prolific, and potentially “Pulitzer Prize-winning” author is donating his archives to Regents University, but what follows is fodder for the tabloids.
The story unfolds in the first-person narrative of Emily Katherine Snow, the archivist assigned to organize and document this collection. She is a consummate professional, and this is her chance to advance her career. This gift of superb academic materials will allow the university to show itself off to the world. However, what Snow finds is not a storehouse of literary excellence but a repository of deeply hidden secrets. Her conservation of academic pieces turns into an erupting volcano of information concerning clandestine meetings, dark archives, trauma, betrayal, and murder. She also uncovers a bombshell ― an unpublished manuscript that if published, could have monumental consequences.
Pickett’s descriptive style enhances the tense atmosphere. Sensory images are everywhere; waves crack like whips in the early morning; events take form like a photo developing in a darkroom, and thoughts run away like cockroaches skittering in the light. The library is no longer an oasis of serenity, but instead, it has become a stormy world of suffering, salaciousness, secrets, and seduction.
“The Archivist” is a tale of intensity, paranoia, and fraud. Each page reveals new dishonesty and deception. I received a review copy of “The Archivist” from Rex Pickett, and Blackstone Publishing. The book is like a set of Russian nesting dolls, one is opened to reveal another, and another, and yet another.
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