The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco

The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco

San Francisco, 1906. The great West Coast city is a center of industry and excitement-and also, to many, of sin. When the Great Earthquake hits, some believe it is the day of reckoning for the immoral masses.

Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Shane Nightingale is witness to the violent deaths of his adoptive mother and sisters-not from the earthquake, but at the hands of a serial killer. As Shane wanders the city appearing to be just another anonymous orphan, he keeps what he has seen a secret. But when his path crosses that of Sergeant Randall Blackburn, who is in pursuit of the killer, the two become an investigative team that will use both a youth's intuitive gifts and a policeman's new deductive techniques and crime-fighting tools to unmask a vicious murderer whose fury can be as intense as that of Mother Nature herself.

Every historical mystery tries to hone in on the ideal setting at the perfect moment in time. Anthony Flacco succeeds on both counts in his first novel ....Flacco imagines the chaos in precise and vivid detail while contributing his own distinctive narrative touch.
--Marilyn Stasio, NY Times Book Review

...Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. ...The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper....Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.
--Booklist

Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.
--Publisher's Weekly

The author does an excellent job of providing a historical novel blended with fiction with the 1906 earthquake as a big part of the story. This one is a real page-turner and I look forward to more in this series. This book is highly recommended.
--Nancy Eaton, EZineArticles.com

...A fast-moving tale of serial killing.... where Flacco especially shines is in his depiction of the two children, newly orphaned Shane Nightingale and the plucky girl who calls herself Vignette... It's clearly deserving of a very wide audience.
--Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind

The Last Nightingale is the beginning of what could be a fascinating series.
--Fredricksburg News

Overall, The Last Nightingale leaves you anxiously awaiting the next installment.
--The Freelance Star

A marvelous page-turner of a thriller set against the fascinating aftermath of the great 1906 earthquake and fire.
-- James Dalessandro, bestselling author of 1906.

Set in a world on the edge of Armageddon, this is a gripping and completely original thriller that will raise the hair on the back of your neck.
-- William Bernhardt, bestselling author of Capitol Threat

From its opening pages-when we are plunged headlong into the terrifying chaos of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906-to its riveting climax, The Last Nightingale offers an abundance of those page-turning pleasures readers seek in historical thrillers: a time-trip through a richly
imagined past, a story that never loosens its suspenseful grip, and a fascinating look at the roots of modern forensic science.
-- Harold Schechter, author of The Serial Killer Files

Atmospheric, chilling, and with more twists and turns than crooked Lombard Street. The Last Nightingale has it all. I couldn't put it down.
-- Cara Black, author of Murder On The Ile St. Louis

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THE MORTALIS DOSSIER

Each book from Mortalis will include the author's special Dossier at the back, wherein the author steps from behind the narrative mask and speaks in detail upon a single aspect of the story.

This is the Dossier from The Last Nightingale.

---- A MILLION TINY SLAPS TO THE HEAD --

The first known investigative procedure that can accurately be called a criminal profile is frequently attributed to Dr. Thomas Bond in the late 1880s. The London physician was called in to examine the body of Mary Kelly, one of Jack the Ripper's more savagely disposed victims. Initially, Dr. Bond was only asked to determine whether or not the victim's remains indicated that the perpetrator had any surgical skill, but the doctor was so horrified by the intensity of the crime that he stayed on to reconstruct the event and develop a speculative description of the killer.
This approach was so unprecedented that there was not even a name for this new system of thinking about the relationship between an individual personality and a specific crime. However, in spite of the apparent novelty, the insights that Dr. Bond employed are all, at their essence, part and parcel of the timeless human capacity for wisdom. The same quest drives the appreciation for the psychological aspects of crime fiction. Avid readers of crime fiction have eyes honed for the vagaries of human personality.
Dr. Bond based his work upon (a) inferences taken from the crime scene; (b) the condition of the victim's body; and (c) the random nature of the crime. History tells us that Bond's work did nothing to reveal the identity of The Ripper. Nevertheless, in terms of engendering a whole new way of thinking about the psychology of crime, it was and still is a wellspring that serves anyone who searches for greater understanding of human behavior by accumulating insights into its most deviant forms.
Since the methodology of profiling is one that guides an investigator to a deeper and more three-dimensional view of an unknown subject, those same tools are equally effective in deepening the

Anthony Flacco, one of four brothers, was born in Oklahoma and raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Their father was an Air Force pilot, and their mother was an accomplished painter and artist. His critically renowned ability to relate with a wide range of characters stems from his history as a skilled theater actor with over 2,000 appearances under his Actors Equity membership. When he was chosen for the renowned American Film Institute scholarship in Screenwriting, he moved into screenwriting. After winning the AFI's Paramount Studios Fellowship Award, he obtained his MFA in screenplay and was then chosen from 2,000 applicants for the Walt Disney Studios Screenwriting Fellowship, where he spent a year writing for the Touchstone Movies division.

His screenplay experience propels visually stunning narrative stories, whether for a movie theater or a reader's imagination. His past works include The Last Nightengale, The Hidden Man, and The Road Out Of Hell: The Real Story of Sanford Clark and the Wineville Murders, which was converted into an NBC movie of the week. Little Dancer, which was first published in 2005, gained widespread acclaim and was named one of the 100 Most Notable Books of the year. In January 2013, it will be available in eBook format for the first time.

He is a frequent public speaker on crime writing and is a prominent speaker on writing for writers' conferences and groups. He also works as an Editorial Consultant for Martin Literary Management in Seattle, WA. Visit www.AnthonyFlacco.com for additional details.

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ISBN 13	9780812977578
ISBN 10	0812977572
Titel	The Last Nightingale
Autor	Anthony Flacco
Serie	William Monk Ser
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2007-06-12
Seitenanzahl	258
Preise	Short-listed for Thriller Awards (Paperback Original) 2008
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.