The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalised beyond repair. Adam’s sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will – a convicted if unrepentant literary forger – struggle to come to terms with the seemingly incomprehensible murder. But … But when Will begins receiving threatening handwritten letters, seemingly penned by long-dead authors, but really from someone who knows secrets about Adam’s death and Will’s past, he understands his own life is also on the line – and attempts to forge a new beginning for himself and Meg.
In The Forgers, Bradford Morrow reveals the passion that drives collectors to the razor-sharp edge of morality, brilliantly confronting the hubris and mortal danger of rewriting history with a fraudulent pen.
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The Forgers is quintessential Bradford Morrow. Brilliantly written as a suspense novel, lethally enthralling to read, and filled with arcane, fascinating information — in this case, the rarified world of high-level literary forgery.
In The Forgers, Bradford Morrow hits the sweet spot at the juncture of genre crime fiction and the mainstream novel with an almost mystical perfection. Readers of either form will be gratified and impressed, and those who are readers of both will be thrilled. In its deep knowledge of books and those who trade in them, and in its thousand vivid, …
I was captured by the first sentence of the first page – “They never found his hands”. There were times in the book when I thought the Hero “over-thought things”, and this seemed to draw out the story.
However it was always gripping and kept me on the edge of my seat. At times I wanted it to “hurry up and end”, and was almost afraid the turn to …
I rarely stop reading a book before I have finished it. I didn’t finish reading this book. There was nothing at all likeable about the main characters.
Bradford Morrow’s The Forgers is a bibliophile’s dream, an existential thriller set in the world of rare book collecting that is also a powerfully moving exposé of the forger’s dangerous skill: what happens when you lie so well that you lose touch with what is real? In beautifully controlled prose, Morrow traces the shaky line between paranoia and …
The Forgers is remarkable. Bradford Morrow is remarkable. The Real Thing, which is rare on this earthly plane.
With The Forgers, Bradford Morrow has masterfully combined an exquisitely thickening plot, an informed appreciation of the antiquarian book world, and a deep understanding of what makes the obsessive people who inhabit this quirky community do the sort of impassioned things they sometimes do, up to and including the commission of horrific crimes. …
How strange it may appear, this is the first book but is released after its sequel ‘the forger’s daughter’ that I read a few months ago. I tried to pretend that I hadn’t read that but it did spoil the story a bit as almost all that happens here, is recapped in book 2.
We never learn the name of the narrator as he refers to himself as ‘I’. His …
There is something special about reading a book that is all about books, especially when it’s wrapped around a murder mystery. THE FORGERS delves deep into the world of bibliophiles and the ways in which a forged inscription in a rare first edition can pass into the hands of a collector without raising an alarm.
Bradford Morrow is a wordsmith. …
unexpected ending
Really enjoyed this. Will read another book by this author!
Skillfully written, slow plot
I really wanted to enjoy this book, and parts of it are very good. But parts were very slow, and I was glad to be finished with it. I formed an immediate dislike for the main character, and the author did give me that “A Ha” moment, but only after several convoluted maneuvers.
Interesting book, not sure I like books written in the first person.
Was disappointed. Felt it had potential, but it let me down.
The unreliability of the narrator gives a good twist to the mystery.