The Haunting Of L

The Haunting of L by Howard Norman From the bestselling
author of The Bird Artist comes the final book in his
Canadian trilogy (with The Bird Artist and The Museum
Guard): a novel about spirit photographs adultery and
murder It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job
as an assistant to the elusive portraitist Vienna Linn in
the remote town of Churchill Manitoba. Across Canada Linn
has been arranging and photographing gruesome accidents
for the private collection in London of a Mr. Radin
Heur—theirs is a macabre duet of art and violence. When
Peter arrives on the night of his employer’s wedding his
life changes in ways he scarcely could have imagined.
Falling under the spell of Vienna’s brilliant and
beautiful wife Kala Murie the uneasy m?nage ? trois moves
to Peter’s native Halifax where he reluctantly comes to
share Kala’s obsession with spirit photographs as Vienna’s
violent art reaches a terrifying climax.