The Drowned Detective
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Combining the language and imagery of film with those of an extremely gifted writer, Neil Jordan has created a haunting novel that intrigues, delights, and surprises with its precise language, sly humor, imaginative range, and narrative flair.
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Neil Jordan. (2016). The Drowned Detective. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Neil Jordan. 2016. The Drowned Detective. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Neil Jordan, The Drowned Detective. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Neil Jordan. The Drowned Detective. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
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- Jonathan is a private detective in a decaying eastern European city. He is drowning in his work, his failing marriage, and the corrupt landscape that surrounds him. One day, he is approached by an elderly couple to investigate the disappearance of their daughter, who has been missing for nearly two decades. Troubled by the faded photograph of a little girl the couple presses on him—she's the same age as his own daughter—he feels compelled to find her. Then one night, as he is contemplating his troubled marriage, he encounters a young woman crouched at the foot of a stone angel on the bridge spanning the river that divides the city, a woman who suddenly jumps into the icy water below. Plunging after her, Jonathan finds himself dragged into her ghostly world of confusion, coincidence, and intrigue, and the city he thought he knew becomes strange, mysterious, and threatening.
Combining the language and imagery of film with those of an extremely gifted writer, Neil Jordan has created a haunting novel that intrigues, delights, and surprises with its precise language, sly humor, imaginative range, and narrative flair. - reviews
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- content: Beautifully enigmatic . . . One of the most distinctive qualities ofof [Jordan's] movies—including The Crying Game, The End of the Affair and Michael Collins—is the lucid, elegant screenplays he writes. And Mistaken is precisely rooted in the streets of Dublin, which has a cinematically visual presence. But while there is some interplay between Jordan's films and novels, he has also mastered the difference between genres. His books give more emphasis to the inner lives of their characters, in prose that is both straightforward and poetic without being florid . . . [Mistaken] shines with a darkly luminous glow.
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- content: As vivid as any of the films he has written and directed ... A dazzling demonstration of Jordan's ability to express himself in words as well as images
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- content: As this quiet novel steps surely toward its powerful conclusion, it's also a testament to the simple but profound power of storytelling.
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March 14, 2016
Jordan, writer and filmmaker (The Crying Game), returns to his favorite theme—that of a missing woman—in this curious new novel. Jonathan is a detective who works for a tracing agency. When he is asked to locate Petra, the missing daughter of a rural couple in an unnamed Eastern European city, he enlists the help of Gertrude, a psychic whose Pomeranian has a luxated patella. She burns a map to guide Jonathan to Petra’s whereabouts, but the mystery of the missing woman soon becomes secondary to Jonathan’s relationship with an unnamed cellist he saves after she jumps off a bridge. Intrigued by her sad beauty, he visits her repeatedly. Are the two women connected? Jordan teases out the answer as Jonathan grapples with the infidelity of his wife, Sarah, while protests and ghosts lurk in the background. As the story unspools, Jordan shows his strengths as a writer in the terrific dialogue and atmospheric imagery. However, what starts out as spellbinding soon becomes underwhelming, never fully delivering on the strong set-up.
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The search for a missing girl draws a private detective into a sea of confusion and despair in this compelling, atmospheric novel. Jonathan's marriage to Sarah, already in distress, heads toward failure when he finds a cuff link that indicates her involvement with his close colleague. Then he accepts a seemingly insoluble case from a couple seeking his help in finding their daughter, Petra, who went missing 12 years earlier, when she was the same age his daughter, Jenny, is now. A psychic, a woman Jonathan also consults, has told Petra's parents that she is somewhere in an Eastern European city, confined in a small room. The night he fires his cheating colleague, Jonathan rescues a young woman who jumps off a bridge and escorts her home, where she enchants him with her cello playing, drawing him into a mysterious relationship that will soon touch Jenny, too. With a background of chaos, including rioting over what is found at an anthropological dig, award-winning author and film director Jordan weaves a story that is ghostly and mesmerizing, its narrative unreeling in a nearly hypnotic fashion, yet overlaid with a powerful sense of inevitability. A striking blend of mystery and Hitchcockian romantic suspense.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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