Synopses & Reviews
The True Detective, Gil Dulac, is a small town police investigator who sees his sleepy city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, being infested with a sexual pathology that, in its breadth of depravity, is breaking out like a pandemic. Its no surprise to Dulac then, when a twelve-year-old boy turns up missing. Child abduction grips the city, along with Dulacs obsessive sense of justice. Now, as the clock winds down on a horrifying reality, Dulac must use his wits, his resolve, and his deepest life experiences to recover the boy alive. In the spirit of Truman Capotes In Cold Blood, Weesner takes the reader deep into the conflicting desires and motivations of a broken family, a sexually confused perpetrator, and an immensely complex investigating detective, to create a lightning-fast literary thriller that is both powerful and heartbreakingly realistic. Weesners, unflinching insight and master storytelling combine to create a rare breed of novel: an absolute page-turner that rises to the level of great American literature.
About the Author
Theodore Weesner, born in Flint, Michigan, is aptly described as "Writers' Writer" by the larger literary community. His short works have been published in the New Yorker, Esquire, Saturday Evening Post, Atlantic Monthly and Best American Short Stories. His novels, including The True Detective, Winning the City and Harbor Light, have been published to great critical acclaim in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper's, The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, Boston Magazine and The Los Angeles Times to name a few. Weesner is currently writing his memoir, two new novels, and an adaptation of his widely praised novel-retitled Winning the City Redux-also to be published by Astor + Blue Editions. He lives and works in Portsmouth, NH.