Lee Langley

Vile deeds and voyeurism

The lure of evil — even for the well-intentioned — is the subject of this Hitchcockian nove

  • Thus Bad Begins

    Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

    Hamish Hamilton, pp. 503

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