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Book SynopsisThe 'disturbing and provocative' (
Los Angeles Times) novel about a forensic neuropsychiatrist at the end of his rope-now a major TV series starring Hugh Laurie and Gretchen Moi-from award-winning author Kem Nunn.
Chance is a dark story about psychiatric mystery, sexual obsession, fractured identities, and terrifyingly...
Trade ReviewChance is ambitious and provocative, complex in construction and in its prose -- Rowena * Murder, Mayhem and More *
There hasn't been fiction this good about a San Francisco medical professional gone off the rails over a woman since Frank Norris' deluded dentist in the 1899 novel McTeague -- Alan Cheuse * San Francisco Chronicle *
Chance takes place in the twilit world of noir, where people and things are never what they seem...For all the mayhem - its ending is delicately funny * New York Times Book Review *
Is it too much to compare Kem Nunn to Raymond Chandler? Like Chandler, Nunn's great subject is what lies beneath the surface, the desolation that infuses us at every turn. . . The power of this disturbing and provocative novel is that it leaves us unmoored among the signposts of a morally ambiguous universe in which, even after we have finished reading, it is uncertain who has been feeding whom * Los Angeles Times *
Brilliant and cerebral psychological thriller * Publisher's Weekly *
