The ad copy on the back of the proofs for Pyper's second novel (after Lost Girls) points out just what's right, and what's wrong, with the book: "The Trade Mission
is a gripping, ingeniously plotted thriller with an underlying...
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Andrew Pyper, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-312-35454-1
Set in Ross River, a tiny Canadian Yukon settlement, Pyper's subtle thriller develops a sense of dread more from the menace of uncontrollable forest fires and lurking grizzlies than the human predator who remains anonymous until the end. The...
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Andrew Pyper, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-312-38476-0
In this extraordinary thriller from Canadian author Pyper (The Wildfire Season
), Patrick Rush, a lowly TV critic for a Toronto newspaper whose life has been slowly deteriorating since the untimely death of his wife, struggles to remain employed...
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Andrew Pyper, Author Delacorte Press $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-33446-4
Toronto resident Pyper's spell-binding debut succeeds on so many levels--as a mystery, a legal thriller, a literary character study--that's it's obvious why it was a #1 bestseller last year in Canada. Breathing new life into a modern cliche, the...
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Andrew Pyper. Simon & Schuster, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9741-4
A mesmerizing and melancholy narrative voice lends chilling credibility to this exceptional supernatural thriller. Milton scholar David Ullman, who teaches English literature at Columbia, believes that loneliness, each person’s going like Adam and...
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Andrew Pyper. Simon & Schuster, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5511-3
Pyper (The Demonologist) makes a familiar plotline fresh in this literate supernatural thriller. In 1989, at the age of 16, Danny Orchard’s twin sister, Ash, dies in a fire in an abandoned Detroit house. Danny himself almost dies that night as well,
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Andrew Pyper. Simon & Schuster, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5521-2
Edgar-winner Pyper (The Damned) misfires in this supernatural thriller, which becomes less compelling and less scary the more explicit the threat to the lead gets. Doctor Lily Dominick, who works at New York’s Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, was...
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Andrew Pyper. Simon & Schuster Canada, $17 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-9821-0897-7
Surgeon Aaron Quinlan, the 36-year-old narrator of this brilliant thriller set in the Pacific Northwest from Pyper (The Demonologist), learns that his father, Raymond, a secretive workaholic who was mostly absent from Aaron’s life, has died. The...
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Andrew Pyper. Skybound, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-9821-4905-5
Pyper (The Homecoming) spins a fascinating horror novel centered on Franklin Pierce, the 14th U.S. President and one of the least effectual, proposing supernatural causes behind the man’s failure. Right after Franklin’s 1852 election, the death of...
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