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Four years after his wife's unexplained suicide, true crime writer David Neff is still shattered, still disengaged from life. Then a friend tries to interest him in the unsolved murder of a local recluse, and eventually David finds himself being drawn into the mystery. Who was the old man? Why was he always seen, summer and winter, wearing mittens? Why does the physical evidence make no sense? And where do the recurring redheads fit in? The closer David gets to uncovering the true identity of the Man from Primrose Lane, the more he begins to understand the power of his own obsessions, and how they may be connected to the deaths of both the old hermit and David's beloved wife. And then things start to get strange. Beautifully written and magnificently resistant to categorisation, The Man from Primrose Lane is a novel of soaring imagination. It's a nail-biting thriller, a story of bone-deep love and redemption, and a meditation on the nature of destiny. Not only will it leave you astonished and exhilarated-it may well become the most talked-about novel of the year.

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Shelly writes: You really HAVEN'T read anything like this before! This is surely one of the most promising debuts this year. It begins with the murder of an old man known simply as 'The Man from Primrose Lane'. No-one knows who he really is, and it would appear this is the way he wanted it - he constantly wore mittens and cut off his own fingers and put them into a blender to hide his identity in death. David Neff is a true crime writer who recently lost his wife to suicide and has closeted himself away from the world with their small son. Yet when the story of this reclusive man comes to his attention, he is powerless to stop the domino effect that pulls him back into the world. What follows is a wonderful recounting of how David met his late wife, and the search for a killer that resulted in his first book. Yet there are many more things that must be uncovered, and this book will have you gasping. I truly found this to be a consuming novel - one of those books that you can't help but rave about and force onto your friends. This is a triumph of a debut - James Renner is certainly one to watch!

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James Renner is a true crime writer from Ohio. He is the author of Amy: My Search for Her Killer and The Serial Killer's Apprentice, two non-fiction books that detail his adventures as an investigative journalist. The Man from Primrose Lane is his first novel.

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