Ivory tower
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Ivory tower
9.99 €
You can run away from yourself, but what you've done will stay with you...
A gripping, multi-layered thriller about the various forms of madness and the various options for recovery.
Never before has the expression "demolished tower" had such a literal meaning...
Mara Paladini is a former patient of a special psychiatric clinic nicknamed "The Structure." There, she plotted how she would live a new life in freedom. And now she lives exactly that way. Mara calls it the Ivory Tower—walls of white boxes that minimize the space in an apartment she almost never leaves. She wants to forever shut herself off from the world and compares the Tower to a mouth that could start chewing her up at any moment. Mara is fine with that; she wants it.
But one small patch of moisture on the ceiling ruins this strange plan. A leak from the apartment above. Because of it, the Tower will end. Mara goes up to her neighbor and... finds him dead. He was killed with a plant toxin well known to her...
Known because she is, in fact, Mariele Pirovano, the Poisoner of Sestri Levante. Thirteen years ago, in a fit of madness, Mariele poisoned her entire family in the same manner—her husband, young son, and daughter. That's why she ended up in the Structure. The neighbor's death means someone has discovered her new identity. And wants to frame her. After all, everyone who helped the Poisoner live under the guise of Mara Paladini knows who she is, what she did, and how...
A gripping, multi-layered thriller about the various forms of madness and the various options for recovery.
Never before has the expression "demolished tower" had such a literal meaning...
Mara Paladini is a former patient of a special psychiatric clinic nicknamed "The Structure." There, she plotted how she would live a new life in freedom. And now she lives exactly that way. Mara calls it the Ivory Tower—walls of white boxes that minimize the space in an apartment she almost never leaves. She wants to forever shut herself off from the world and compares the Tower to a mouth that could start chewing her up at any moment. Mara is fine with that; she wants it.
But one small patch of moisture on the ceiling ruins this strange plan. A leak from the apartment above. Because of it, the Tower will end. Mara goes up to her neighbor and... finds him dead. He was killed with a plant toxin well known to her...
Known because she is, in fact, Mariele Pirovano, the Poisoner of Sestri Levante. Thirteen years ago, in a fit of madness, Mariele poisoned her entire family in the same manner—her husband, young son, and daughter. That's why she ended up in the Structure. The neighbor's death means someone has discovered her new identity. And wants to frame her. After all, everyone who helped the Poisoner live under the guise of Mara Paladini knows who she is, what she did, and how...
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Tok. The Patient: A Psychiatric Thriller