The Blue Afternoon

Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los Angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, he plunges readers into a tale of grisly murders and an illicit passion that still obsesses him 30 years later. 

"A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times),

Author: William Boyd

Publisher: Vintage

Released Date: 1993

ISBN: 9780679772606