by Alice Hoffman · Berkley · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780425179673
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«The River King» is the mystery novel by Alice Hoffman, published by Berkley in paperback (352 pages, in English).
In the town of Haddan, life runs separately between locals and students of an elite school. When a corpse appears in the campus river, local policeman Abel Grey enters that closed community. Among the threads: a clumsy student, a loyal young woman, a photographer, and hidden truths.
Nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award in the fiction category in 2001.
For readers of mystery and suspense who appreciate an academic setting with a touch of magical realism.
Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name and went on to spawn a media franchise. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
