· The Reflection has all the hallmarks of a classic noir novel: a narrator in crisis, a psychological drama, a femme fatale (or two), a whole string of coincidences that are anything but and a sense that everything is being stage-managed to turn the protagonist into one of his patients, which he must resist, whatever the cost. · Now, in his second novel, The Reflection, the comparisons seem even more appropriate: It's a smart, creepy, steadily absorbing mystery about an average law-abiding citizen who finds himself inexplicably caught up in a case of mistaken identities--with one of his own patients. · Today’s book is The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken, out September 8 in the US; October 1 in the UK. Hugo Wilcken has never visited New York. And yet his new novel, The Reflection is set in its smoky streets in late s, and captures the atmosphere of post-war New York as well as Highsmith or Hitchcock ever did. The outline of the story is simple: Dr Manne is a psychiatrist who is mistaken for .
The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken review - a thrilling experiment. This noirish page-turner set in s Manhattan is a story about the way we try to make sense of stories - and the reader has a. The Reflection|Hugo Wilcken, Automatic Control Theory (Wiley Series In Electronic Engineering Technology)|Benjamin Deroy, A Coffin For Dimitrios|Eric Ambler, On The Choice Of Books: The Inaugural Address Of Thomas Carlyle|Thomas Carlyle. Hugo Wilcken's first novel, The Execution--a taut, psychological mystery about an average person who commits an accidental murder--got the kind of rave reviews authors dream of: He was compared to Camus and Hitchcock. Now, in his second novel, The Reflection, the comparisons seem even more appropriate: It's a smart, creepy, steadily absorbing mystery about an average law-abiding citizen who.
Now, in his second novel, The Reflection, the comparisons seem even more appropriate: It's a smart, creepy, steadily absorbing mystery about an average law-abiding citizen who finds himself inexplicably caught up in a case of mistaken identities--with one of his own patients. The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken is a psychological thriller dealing with mistaken identity. I thought it started off very well, with the author invoking a great sense of unease and ambiguity around what is real and what isn't. The Reflection has all the hallmarks of a classic noir novel: a narrator in crisis, a psychological drama, a femme fatale (or two), a whole string of coincidences that are anything but and a sense that everything is being stage-managed to turn the protagonist into one of his patients, which he must resist, whatever the cost.
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