PETER HELLER is the best-selling author of The Painter and The Dog Stars. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in both fiction and poetry. An award-winning adventure writer and a longtime contributor to NPR, Heller is a contributing editor at Outside magazine, Men's Journal, and National Geographic Adventure, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek. He is also the author of several nonfiction books, including Kook, The Whale Warriors, and Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
"Heller impresses in this fine novel about parents and children and
the secrets we try to keep from one another... The novel glows."
--Marc Bojanowski, The New York Times Book Review "In this
gorgeously wrought story--equal parts character study and
mystery--a young woman asks Celine, a badass Brooklyn private eye,
to investigate the death of her father, a nature photographer who
may or may not have been mauled and eaten by bears in
Yellowstone... Captivating." --Entertainment Weekly's "The Must
List: Top 10 Things We Love This Week" Grade: A-
"Terrific... Celine is tough, tired, and very funny--exactly the
sort of person you want to spend 300 pages with... It's a pulpy,
twisty plot... Heller stuffs it with tingling mysteries and
thrilling solutions. He keeps everything moving thanks to an
increasingly tense plot... Still, the best thing about Celine is
that it's a terrific piece of fiction." --Craig Fehrman, Outside
Magazine "Ingenious... Like Mark Twain and Toni Morrison, Heller is
a rare talent... Irresistible suspense... Masterful, emotional and
action-packed... One of this year's most unforgettable characters.
It's as if Heller took the tender yet tough-as-nails personality of
writer Annie Proulx and cast her on the page, in all her
plainspoken, intellectually impeccable, deeply wise--and
wise-ass--glory." --Lisa Shea, Elle "Celine and Pete... launch a
deceptively leisurely investigation showcasing Celine's
appreciation for public libraries and passion for firearms,
venturing into international cover-ups, and culminating in
hilarious showdowns in which wit is the mightiest weapon... This
captivating, tender, brainy, and funny tale of the mysterious
powers of beauty and grief, nature and family will leave readers
hoping that Heller is planning a National Park series featuring
this stealthy, irrepressible duo." --Donna Seaman, Booklist
(Starred Review)
"Celine is a paradox, a Sarah Lawrence blue blood who is also a
licensed PI, living near the Brooklyn Bridge... Heller blends
suspense with beautiful descriptive writing of both nature and
civilization to create a winner." --Robert E. Brown, Library
Journal (Starred Review)
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