From the acclaimed author of CLOUDLAND and CLARA’S HEART, which became a film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris, comes BLACK DIAMOND FALL (Polis Books, September 18, 2018) by Joseph Olshan. Inspired by the actual disappearance of a student at Middlebury College and the vandalism of the nearby Robert Frost Homestead, this rich, literary mystery is Olshan at his best.
When Luc Flanders disappears after playing a game of pond hockey with college roommates, the police department in Middlebury, Vermont is divided about what actually happened. Some feel that Flanders went off the grid by choice. Others, including detectives Nick Jenkins and Helen Kennedy, suspect foul play. As the search for Flanders intensifies, the detectives turn their gaze to Sam Solomon, an older man with whom Luc was having a secret relationship and who cannot prove his whereabouts during the hours when Flanders disappeared. When the police learn that the Robert Frost house was vandalized at almost the same time, the detectives suspect a link between the events—which they’re determined to solve.
BLACK DIAMOND FALL is at once a lush, evocative literary novel, a portrait of love between a younger and older man, and a riveting mystery that could only come from the mind of acclaimed writer Joseph Olshan.
JOSEPH OLSHAN is the award-winning author of 10 novels, including Cloudland, Nightswimmer, Clara’s Heart, A Warmer Season, The Sound of Heaven, In Clara’s Hands, Vanitas, The Waterline and The Conversion. He is the editorial director of Delphinium Books and spends most of the year in Vermont.
BLACK DIAMOND FALL
By Joseph Olshan
Polis Books; September 18, 2018
$26.00/$35.99 CAN; 304 pages
ISBN: 978-1-947993-34-1; eISBN: 978-1-947993-48-8
