Bücher von Liz Nugent

WINNER - IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year 2014By the author of the Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Lying in Wait'Truly excellent, beautifully written ... strongly recommended' Sophie Hannah'Compelling, clever and dark, unlike any other psychological thriller you will have read before ... you'll gobble it up in one go.' Heat Magazine'Incredibly brilliant' Marian Keyes'Gone Girl meets The Spinning Heart ... a great cracking read ... I couldn't put it down' Ryan Tubridy, RT 'The compulsion to continue reading never wanes and most impressively the ending doesn't buckle under the weight of expectation ... a persistently satisfying read' Sunday Times 'A page-turning, one-sitting read from a brand new master of psychological suspense' Sunday Independent'An ambitiously structured and compelling "e;whydunnit"e;' Daily Mail 'Formidable' Irish Times'Reminiscent of The Book of Evidence' RTE Guide'We read this in one sitting ... satisfyingly unnerving.' Woman's Way'All I know is I stayed awake until 3am to finish it, which I haven't done with a new novel for longer than I can remember.' Irish Independent'The best opening line you'll read all year ... and you'll keep reading' Sinead Crowley, RTE Arts Correspondent'Her writing is stylish, the characters are vivid and the line of the story is all too real and plausible. Can't recommend it highly enough.' Rick O'Shea, 2FM'A superb and compelling terrifying book' Sinead Desmond, TV3'Just read a book in one sitting. Last time I managed that was about twenty years ago. The book was Liz Nugent's Unravelling Oliver' Declan Burke, CrimeAlwaysPays.ie'A kind of Irish Mr Ripley ... Gripping, thought-provoking' Darragh McManus, arts journalist'I read this book over a 24 hour period. I seriously could not put it down.' Writing.ie'Magnificent ... compulsively readable ... stunning, shock and superb' Frank McGuinness'I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.'Liz Nugent's gripping novel of psychological suspense, Unravelling Oliver, is a complex and elegant study of the making of a sociopath in the tradition of Barbara Vine and Patricia Highsmith.Oliver Ryan is a handsome and charismatic success story. He lives in the suburbs with his wife, Alice, who illustrates his award-winning children's books and gives him her unstinting devotion. Their life together is one of enviable privilege and ease - enviable until, one evening after supper, Oliver attacks Alice and beats her into a coma.In the aftermath, as everyone tries to make sense of his astonishing act of savagery, Oliver tells his story. So do those whose paths he has crossed over five decades. What unfolds is a story of shame, envy, breath-taking deception and masterful manipulation.Only Oliver knows the lengths to which he has had to go to get the life to which he felt entitled. But even he is in for a shock when the past catches up with him.Liz Nugent has worked in Irish film, theatre and television for most of her adult life. She is an award-winning writer of radio and television drama and has written short stories for children and adults. Unravelling Oliver is her first novel. Her second novel, Lying in Wait, won her a second IBA and was both a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick.

Als ihr verwitweter Adoptivvater kurz vor ihrem 43. Geburtstag stirbt, nimmt Sally Diamond ihn beim Wort: Sie versucht, ihn mit dem Müll zu verbrennen. So wie er es ihr gesagt hat. Ein Fehler, denn nun interessieren sich plötzlich alle für die seltsame Frau, die sich gerne taub stellt, wenn sie unter Menschen geht und am liebsten für sich bleibt: Polizei, Nachbarn, Medien - und eine unheimliche Stimme aus einer Vergangenheit, an die sie sich nicht erinnert. Während sie nach und nach von den schrecklichen Geheimnissen ihrer frühen Kindheit erfährt, nähert sich Sally zum ersten Mal vorsichtig der Welt. Sie übt sich in Vertrauen, schließt Freundschaften, trifft große Entscheidungen und lernt, dass Menschen nicht immer meinen, was sie sagen und nicht immer sind, was sie vorgeben zu sein. Doch wer ist der mysteriöse Fremde, der so viel über sie zu wissen scheint und ihr Nachrichten von der anderen Seite des Globus schickt? Und wieso ist der neue Nachbar so besessen von ihr?Seltsame Sally Diamond ist ein Psychothriller vom Feinsten, ein Buch das unter die Haut geht, düster, hochspannend und ergreifend. Vor allem aber mit einer Hauptfigur, die so entwaffnend ehrlich, liebenswert und einzigartig ist, dass man sie nicht vergisst.