Bøker av Joseph Goodrich

"As nuanced as a dry martini and as evocative as Proust's madeleine, Joseph Goodrich's The Paris Manuscript explores the intersection of art, passion, and deception with perceptive elegance." Erica Obey, author of Dazzle Paint. "A remarkable triumph. Not to be missed." An aging journalist attempts to recapture lost time. He was young, in Paris, with the woman he loved more than anything . . . who may have committed murder. Edgar-winner Joseph Goodrich's debut novel introduces an unlikely sleuth who is a master of remembrance.In this stylishly written fiction by the author of Unusual Suspects and Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen (1947-1950), memory and reality tug for dominance as characters try to untangle a murder in the chaotic days after World War I."The Paris Manuscript doesn't waste a word: a bone-deep portrait . . . evoked with the restraint and clarity of Simenon." Gordon Dahlquist, NY Times best-selling author"A suspenseful, elegantly told tale of death, desire and history. The evocation of Paris in the wake of the Great War is utterly convincing. A gem of a mystery." Peter Quinn, author of the Fintan Dunne trilogy

Mystery Drama / 2m, 4f / Interior setRecipient of the 2008 Mystery Writer's of America Edgar Award for Best Play.Paris, 1963. Director Henry Lockwood has come to the City of Light for the premiere of his new film, Panic. Accompanied on the trip by his wife Emma and his secretary Miriam, Lockwood expects nothing more than to enjoy another cinematic success and to bask in the adulation of young French film critic Alain Duplay. But when Lockwood is accused of a hideous crime---a crime that could

Drama / 4 m, 3 f / Interior Set in the break room of a quasi-governmental organization, Smoke and Mirrors follows Anita and a handful of her co-workers through the course of a seemingly normal day, complete with bad cafeteria food, inept bosses, inappropriate e-mails and blood-stained lab-coats. Smoke and Mirrors mingles the comic with the nightmarish, creating a world composed of patriotism and cupcakes, of paranoia and air freshener---a world uncomfortably close to our own. "In Smoke and Mirrors, playwright Joseph Goodrich conjures up a wickedly amusing portrait of a stultifying but nerve-racking workplace." -Backstage.com "If Kafka scripted an episode of The Office, it might resemble Joseph Goodrich's bizarre and often intriguing Smoke and Mirrors, set in the smoking room of a nebulous American corporation." -Time Out New York