Let the Dark Flower Blossom

A novel by Norah Labiner April 30, 2013 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 384 pages • 978-1-56689-320-6 An existential murder mystery about two rival writers willing to do anything——lie, steal, kill——to get the perfect story. Sheldon and Eloise Schell are twins, orphans, and the estranged college companions of the rich, scandalous, celebrated Roman Stone. Now Roman is dead, stabbed in the heart, and Eloise and Sheldon must separately tease out their secret past—a burning house, a murdered girl—that is the one story they could never tell. Moving between the muffled plush of wintry Chicago, the fog-bound darkness of a Lake Superior island, and the even darker precincts of memory, Let the Dark Flower Blossom is a book about the pull of the closed door. It is about the small pleasure of being right, the tremendous thrill of doing wrong, and the lengths writers will go—lie, steal, kill—to get the perfect story. About the Author Norah Labiner is the author of three previous novels: Our Sometime Sister, Miniatu