An eerie, Venice-set novel from the bestselling Booker Prize-winning author.
A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR, SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2025
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW AND THE SEA
'Memorable and disturbing' GUARDIAN
'One of my favourite writers alive' REBECCA F. KUANG
'A slyly fashioned work of art' IRISH TIMES
Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . .
Winter 1900, and strange things are afoot. As the new century dawns, English hack writer Evelyn Dolman and his bride, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat, travel to Venice for their belated honeymoon. On their arrival at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo - the couple are met by a series of seemingly otherworldly occurrences, exacerbating Evelyn's already frayed nerves. Is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city, or is he really losing his mind?
Readers were haunted by Venetian Vespers:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Well plotted, intriguing, fascinating'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A dark and twisty page-turner. Highly reccommend'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Deeply creepy and decadent and suspenseful. Prose is spectacular'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Beautifully written and full of riddles and surprises'