A successful Upper West Side psychiatrist begins to doubt a young client's suicide when he receives the first of an ominous series of notes by a sender who kidnaps his daughter and shares clues leading him back to a love affair in Paris that upended his life decades earlier.
Read More
<b>Haunted by a past crime and a past lover, a psychoanalyst tries to protect his daughter from his mistakes—but at what cost?<br></b><br><b>“This dazzling gothic-tinged thriller takes us deep into a labyrinth of secrets, lies, and deceptions.”—Dan Chaon, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of<i> Ill Will</i></b><br> <b> </b><br> Daniel Abend is a single parent in New York City, with a successful therapy practice and a comfortable life: an apartment on the Upper West Side, a teenage daughter, a peaceful daily routine. When one of his patients commits suicide, it is a tragedy, but one easily explained: The young woman suffered from depression and drug addiction.<br><br> But soon after, Daniel receives an ominous note that makes him question the circumstances surrounding his patient’s death. He is provided with a provocative series of clues—a mysterious key, a cryptic poem, a photograph with a chilling message. A few days later, his daughter abruptly disappears.<br><br> Daniel is swept into an increasingly desperate search for his daughter, and for the truth—a search that stretches back decades, to when he was a young man living in Paris, falling in love with a woman who would ultimately upend his life. As he is tormented by a steady flow of anonymous letters, Daniel recognizes that he must confront the secrets of his past: There is a debt to be paid, an account to be settled.<br><br> <b>Advance praise for <i>The Waters & The Wild</i></b><br><br> “Elegant, elegiac, enigmatic: three words to describe <i>The Waters & The Wild</i>. DeSales Harrison crafts a series of intricate psychological layers that blur the lines between what is past and present, real and unreal. This is a compelling debut that is equal parts character study and literary labyrinth.”<b>—Matthew Pearl, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Dante Club </i>and<i> The Last Bookaneer </i></b><br><br> “A cryptic, beguiling puzzle-box of a book, <i>The Waters & The Wild</i> is chilling in its acuity and deep in its sorrows—a mesmeric exploration of guilt in the vein of <i>Vertigo</i> or <i>The Secret History, </i>with the frantic nightmare-logic of a thriller.”<b>—David Gilbert, author of <i>& Sons</i></b>
Read Less