quotLike the love child of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle delightful to readquotNPRorg on The Forgersamp10A gripping literary thriller that brings readers inside the world of expert forgery rivalrous fury and generations of dark family secrets with Mary Shelleys voice and life woven throughoutamp10Literary forger Henry Slader assaulted and presumed dead by his longtime nemesis Will awakens in a shallow grave suffocating in dirt Concussed and disoriented Slader exhumes himself and sets out to exact revenge on his rival orchestrate Willamp8217s downfall and make a fortune along the wayamp8212armed with a devastating secret about Willamp8217s pastamp10Slader quickly draws in Willamp8217s daughter Nicole wielding his threats against her father to blackmail her into forging inscriptions by such authors as Poe Hemingway James Joyce and Gertrude Stein As Nicoleamp8217s skill grows so does her devotion toamp8212and doubts aboutamp8212her fatheramp8217s integrity until she commits the ultimate betrayal for the sake of his freedom With breathtakingly precise background knowledge and virtuoso execution Nicole forges a suite of brilliantly convincing and surpassingly valuable letters by Frankenstein author Mary Shelleyamp8212planting within them the seeds of Sladeramp8217s doomamp10Moving between upstate New York a village in Ireland London and ending in a shocking standoff at the site of Mary Shelleyamp8217s grave in a coastal town in Southern England The Forgeramp8217s...
