The Unsteady Object of Hope
A Unique Crime Novel: A Story of infidelity, Lies and the Delicate Fracture of Hope
by Robert Raker
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Pub Date Sep 01 2019 | Archive Date Dec 08 2019
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Description
In an economically-challenged small town, several children are discovered murdered with the arrival of winter during a desolate January.
The savage crimes have lasting effects on the lives of eight unique individuals:
A scuba instructor who retrieves the bodies from the water, a disfigured cellist who believes he understands who is responsible, an undercover federal agent who investigates the crimes with local authorities, a model whose daughter was the first victim discovered, a ballerina pregnant with her first child, a documentary filmmaker whose marriage is altered by the crime, an art teacher lost in the colors of uncertainty and a painter who is the father of a murdered child.
Connected through tragedy and circumstance, these individuals’ complicated lives become interlaced, leading to the unraveling of infidelity, lies and the delicate fracture of hope.
Advance Praise
"In my opinion, this version is still a masterwork in pain and misery, dripping torment like a maddening rain that won’t go away..."
"In my opinion, this version is still a masterwork in pain and misery, dripping torment like a maddening rain that won’t go away..."
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 518880
The Unsteady Object of Hope is just as it is described on the front cover: a unique crime novel. Robert Raker's novel revolves around a serial child murderer. The novel is told in eight parts, each from a different person's perspective that is somehow tied to the murders. Robert Raker has succeeded in telling the stories of eight different people, love, loss, relationships, and how grief and the unexpected can change people. A deeply moving novel. A literary crime novel that I highly recommend everyone reads.
Pamela J, Reviewer
This book is dark and sad and troubling and absolutely beautiful. While many books portraying the murder of children simply use the children as props, THE UNSTEADY OBJECT OF HOPE deals realistically with the aftermath of the death of children, especially at another's hands. If it weren't so well written, it might have made so grief-ridden that I would not have been able to finish it. But it was worth every exquisite passage. I won't ever forget it.
Kelly A, Educator
The Unsteady Object of Hope by Robert Raker was a disturbing, descriptive, and immersible psychological thriller about crime in a small town. Each character is expertly fleshed out with flaws and issues that make them more human. The vivid landscape of dark and dreary weather only makes the personal turmoil’s that much more intriguing. The protagonist is so deeply affected by the crimes and a community with their own ghosts that the book takes the reader to uncomfortable places, sometimes in a good way and sometimes not. However, I would recommend this book for fans of crime thrillers that are on the darker side.
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General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
