McLean&Eakin's review
The Book of Air and Shadows
by Michael Gruber
McLean&Eakin's review
The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
McLean&Eakin's review
rating:
Julie:
All thrillers should be as smart, filled with compellingly flawed characters and as much fun as Mr. Gruber’s latest.
You can imagine the excitement of Albert Crosetti, an employee in a musty New York antiquarian bookstore, when he finds 17th century letters hinting at the existence of an undiscovered play by Shakespeare. Blindly in love with Carolyn Rolly, the store’s bookbinder, he succumbs to her charms and sells the letters to a Shakespearean scholar. Stupid, perhaps, but Crosetti holds back encrypted letters that may lead to the plays location. Find the play and Crosetti’s financial worth will be stratospheric.
The cast of characters now widen to include Jake Mishkin, a wealthy intellectual-property attorney, his lovely and long-suffering wife, Crosetti’s very funny mother whose best friend works in the archives of the New York Public Library, Crosetti’s sister, a policewoman and Russian mob figures.
A fast moving, often hilarious story that swings wi...more
All thrillers should be as smart, filled with compellingly flawed characters and as much fun as Mr. Gruber’s latest.
You can imagine the excitement of Albert Crosetti, an employee in a musty New York antiquarian bookstore, when he finds 17th century letters hinting at the existence of an undiscovered play by Shakespeare. Blindly in love with Carolyn Rolly, the store’s bookbinder, he succumbs to her charms and sells the letters to a Shakespearean scholar. Stupid, perhaps, but Crosetti holds back encrypted letters that may lead to the plays location. Find the play and Crosetti’s financial worth will be stratospheric.
The cast of characters now widen to include Jake Mishkin, a wealthy intellectual-property attorney, his lovely and long-suffering wife, Crosetti’s very funny mother whose best friend works in the archives of the New York Public Library, Crosetti’s sister, a policewoman and Russian mob figures.
A fast moving, often hilarious story that swings wi...more
