Ill Will: A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ò Two sensational unsolved crimesùone in the past, another in the presentùare linked by one manÆs memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon. Includes an exclusive conversation between Dan Chaon and Lynda Barry NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal ò NPR ò The New York Times ò Los Angeles Times ò The Washington Post ò Kirkus Reviews ò Publishers Weekly ôWe are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves.ö This is one of the little mantras Dustin Tillman likes to share with his patients, and itÆs meant to be reassuring. But what if that story is a lie? A psychologist in suburban Cleveland, Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: His adopted brother, Rusty, is being released from prison. Thirty years ago, Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of DustinÆs parents, aunt, and uncle. The trial came to epitomize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence, the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now, after DNA analysis has overturned the conviction, Dustin braces for a reckoning. Meanwhile, one of DustinÆs patients has been plying him with stories of the drowning deaths of a string of drunk college boys. At first Dustin dismisses his patient's suggestions that a serial killer is at work as paranoid thinking, but as the two embark on an amateur investigation, Dustin starts to believe that thereÆs more to the deaths than coincidence. Soon he becomes obsessed, crossing all professional boundariesùand putting his own family in harmÆs way. From one of todayÆs most renowned practitioners of literary suspense, Ill Will is an intimate thriller about the failures of memory and the perils of self-deception. In Dan ChaonÆs nimble, chilling prose, the past looms over the present, turning each into a haunted place. ôIn his haunting, strikingly original new novel, [Dan] Chaon takes formidable risks, dismantling his timeline like a film editor.öùThe New York Times Book Review ôThe scariest novel of the year . . . ingenious . . . ChaonÆs novel walks along a garrote stretched taut between Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock.öùThe Washington Post

• | Author: Dan Chaon
• | Publisher: Ballantine Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 496 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0345476050
• | ISBN-13: 9780345476050