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âPassions, the edge of madness, forbidden obsessions, runaway libidos and dangerous desires . . . a thinking manâs Fatal Attractionâ (Chicago Sun-Times).  In A Woman Run Mad, John LâHeureux delivers a novel that is part comedy of manners and part psychosexual thriller. Blocked writer, accidental scholar, inattentive husband, all J.J. Quinn wants is peace, and he has gone to buy his wife an expensive handbag to accomplish it. As the bag in question walks out the door under the arm of a beautiful, aristocratic shoplifter, though, Quinnâs curiosity leads him deep into mystery and danger. The shoplifter is Sarah Slade, a Boston Brahmin attempting to ditch a past as bloody as Medeaâs. Compared to Quinnâs hypercompetent, Euripides-scholar wife, Claire, the unhinged Sarah is an alluring breath of fresh airâbut, of course, Quinn has no idea of the Pandoraâs box heâs opened. Acclaimed by Newsweek as âwitty and literate . . . Grand Guignol for grown-ups,â A Woman Run Mad is an unsettling, deeply satisfying novel.  A New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year.  âA superior suspense story . . . that might well have appealed to a writer like Patricia Highsmith, a drama of interlocking obsessions.â âThe New York Times  âWhat a wonderfully hideous, gruesome, grueling horror-marathon of a book! A cross between a Henry James novel and the Texas chain saw massacre. I loved it.â âCarolyn See, author of Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America  âNormalityâas our time understands the wordâand monstrosity are LâHeureuxâs poles, and he joins them with extraordinary dexterity . . . The ending is not to be revealed.â âLos Angeles Times Book Review |
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