The cutting room
By: Mary Watson
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780143530862
Subjects: Motion picture editors; Fiction; Marriage; Detective and mystery stories
Description: "When her husband Amir abruptly leaves home, film editor Lucinda is left angry and puzzled. Where has Amir gone, and why ? In the months before he left, Amir seemed troubled and preoccupied and their marriage had become strained and tense. Now Lucinda worries that his departure could be her fault. Soon afterwards, Lucinda is brutally assaulted in a knife attack,  which throws her even more off balance. Searching for composure, she  finds a distraction in assisting an older friend,  Austrian film-maker Thomas,  with a documentary he is making about an old mission station which is allegedly haunted. But the experience becomes an unnerving one for Lucinda who finds Thomas's growing obsession with the story behind his film worrying. As tensions build, so does the underlying mood of constant menace, until Lucinda is confronted with a disturbing revelation." -- Publisher's note.