The Forgers

The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalised beyond repair. Adam's sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will - a convicted if unrepentant literary forger - struggle to come to terms with the seemingly incomprehensible murder. But when Will begins receiving threatening handwritten letters, seemingly penned by long-dead authors, but really from someone who knows secrets about Adam's death and Will's past, he understands his own life is also on the line - and attempts to forge a new beginning for himself and Meg.

In The Forgers, Bradford Morrow reveals the passion that drives collectors to the razor-sharp edge of morality, brilliantly confronting the hubris and mortal danger of rewriting history with a fraudulent pen.



Bradford Morrow is the author of eight novels, including

Trinity Fields,

The Diviner's Tale and

The Prague Sonata, as well as a short story collection,

The Uninnocent. He is the founding editor of

Conjunctions and has contributed to many anthologies and journals. A Bard Center Fellow and professor of literature at Bard College, he lives in New York City.



Those who like their murder mysteries soft-boiled and with a literary bent will love

The Forgers. Devotees of Arthur Conan Doyle will especially appreciate Bradford Morrow's exploration of the seamy underbelly of the rare book world. . . . Morrow's language is so

pitch perfect, his metaphors so startling, and his truths so pithy that you continue to listen to his tale with a growing fascination and unease.



An excellent suspense novel. . . . Bradford Morrow is, quite skillfully, paying homage to one of Agatha Christie's most famous whodunits. Yet even then, he offers a few twists of his own and will keep all but the most astute mystery aficionado guessing about the truth until the end.



[A] consistently unnerving mystery. . . . The best moments in

The Forgers come . . . from its intimate knowledge of books, details about signatures, ink, bindings, the slant of Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting . . . creating an ambience of old-fashioned gothic suspense that bibliophiles in particular will enjoy.



The Forgers is remarkable. Bradford Morrow is remarkable. The Real Thing, which is rare on this earthly plane



The Forgers is quintessential Bradford Morrow.

Brilliantly written as a suspense novel,

lethally enthralling to read, and filled with arcane, fascinating information - in this case, the rarified world of high-level literary forgery.