The Executor

 When a washed-out philosophy doctorate answers a peculiar ad for daily conversation, it kickstarts a strange journey of intellectualism, inheritance battles, and eventually, murder.

 

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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