The Tryst
by Michael Didbin
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“One of my patients thinks somebody’s trying to kill him,” Aileen Macklin says to her husband over breakfast. A psychiatrist with a fading marriage, Aileen is haunted by the glue-sniffing lad who comes to her in a panic, begging to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for protection. Gary Dunn clearly needs help: ravaged by his squalid existence, he is paralyzed with fear about a murder he has witnessed and convinced he may be next. Unfortunately for Gary, he may just be right. And show more unfortunately for Aileen, she becomes far more involved in his case than professional ethics would recommend. show lessTags
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A psycho thriller, a gothic update, a marriage dissection, a sociological look at glue-sniffing gang life, a path to madness. Alternating chapters that converge in a lulu of a trainride.
I'd started this a while back then put it away, and when I went back to it, I didn't know why I didn't read it through the first time. I found the book a quick-paced, suspenseful read that I didn't want to put down until the end.
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Een psychotherapeute met een ongelukkig huwelijk & een wild verleden wordt geconfronteerd met een adolescent op de dool en via hem met haar jonge jaren. Waarheid en waan vloeien in elkaar over voor beide personages. Op het einde zelfs voor de lezer.
Aug 8, 2009Dutch
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Michael Dibdin is the author of thirteen previous novels. A native of England, he now lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, the mystery writer Katherine Beck. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Grote ABC (765)
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- Canonical title
- The Tryst
- Original title
- The Tryst
- Original publication date
- 1989
- People/Characters
- Aileen Macklin
- Important places
- London, England, UK
- Epigraph
- Every crime has something of the dream about it. Crimes determined to take place engender all they need: victims, circumstances, pretexts, opportunities.
- Paul Valery - Dedication
- To my father and mother
- First words
- "One of my patients thinks somebody's trying to kill him."
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The vision can have lasted only the few seconds that it took her falling body to reach the stone slabs below, but it was of such power and beauty that it seemed a more than adequate recompense for everything that had ever happened to her, and for whatever was about to happen.
- Blurbers
- Rendell, Ruth
- Original language
- English
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- Members
- 152
- Popularity
- 213,992
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.34)
- Languages
- Dutch, English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 1
