The Telling Of Lies

by Timothy Findley

Book Overview

A pharmaceutical millionaire is violently murdered at a holiday resort in Maine. In searching for clues to the murderer's identity, Nessa Van Horne discovers unpleasant truths about herself which have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670812064
• ISBN13: 9780670812066
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Viking Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

A rich and interesting mystery from a fine novelist

Timothy Findley is a former actor and radio performer and scriptwriter from Canada who has written one incredible novel (_Not Wanted On the Voyage_) and quite a few good ones. There is no such thing as a "characteristic" Findley novel, and this is no exception. With _The Telling Of Lies_, the author takes on the murder mystery genre, but of course it's not your typical mystery. It takes place on the south coast of Maine, at a resort hotel with an assortment of characters. The narrator/protagonist, a middle-aged woman, not only tackles and solves the mystery, but intersperses the main plot with memories of her experiences in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War.The story is well told. I liked this book better than _Famous Last Words_ (though it is a less complicated and momentous story) and _The Piano Man's Daughter_, about as much as _The Butterfly Plague_ and his memoir/essay collection _Inside Memory_, but not as much as his masterpiece, _Not Wanted On the Voyage_.