num_pages: 496
description: Two sensational unsolved crimesone in the past another in the presentare linked by one mans memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon. We are always telling a story to ourselves about ourselves Dustin Tillman likes to say. Its one of the little mantras he shares with his patients and its meant to be reassuring. But what if that story is a lie?A psychologist in suburban Cleveland Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: His adopted brother Rusty is being released from prison. Thirty years ago Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of Dustins parents aunt and uncle. The trial came to symbolize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now after DNA analysis has overturned the conviction Dustin braces for a reckoning.Meanwhile one of Dustins patients gets him deeply engaged in a string of drowning deaths involving drunk college boys. At first Dustin dismisses talk of a serial killer as paranoid thinking but as he gets wrapped up in their amateur investigation Dustin starts to believe that theres more to the deaths than coincidence. Soon he becomes obsessed crossing all professional boundariesand putting his own family in harms way.From one of todays most renowned practitioners of literary suspense Ill Will is an intimate thriller about the failures of memory and the perils of self-deception. In Dan Chaons nimble chilling prose the past looms over the present turning each into a haunted place.
language: English
title: Ill Will
publisher: Ballantine Books