Book of Knives

“Book of Knives is a beautifully written, richly compelling, Jamesian novel of creeping claustrophobia and menace. Haines spins a web so intricate, and so well constructed, that you’re unaware of its strands until you are completely enmeshed in it.” – Craig Russell, author of Hyde and The Devil Aspect
“In Book of Knives, Lise Haines has created a believable world of terror where nothing is what it seems. Seen through the perceptive eyes of complex characters, a series of vivid scenes unfolds. One finds all one’s worst fears echoed here in an increasingly suspenseful and surprising crescendo of events. Wonderfully done.” – Sheila Kohler, author of the literary thriller Open Secrets, one of Vogue’s best books of 2020
“Lise Haines, in Book of Knives, as in all her work, is an astute psychologist, a cool, unsentimental investigator of humans, who often locates the hard truths. In a time of circumspection, her bracing recognition of a more complex human consciousness hits the spot. I admire her work and her sensibility.” – Rick Moody, author of Ice Storm and Hotels of North America
“Lise Haines’ Book of Knives is an utterly absorbing, extremely suspenseful, and elegantly written literary ghost story. I was intrigued, and scared, and ultimately deeply moved by this compelling novel about family and the love that transcends death.” – Jessica Treadway, author of Infinite Dimensions

Lise Haines is Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College and a former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University. A past finalist for the PEN Nelson Algren Fiction Award, she enjoys writing, reading, visiting museums, watching movies, spending time in nature, and exploring cities in her free time. Her favorite travels have taken her to Kyoto, Paris and Venice. She is the author of several novels.

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