Bøger af Matthew Blake

Hun er den eneste, der kender sandheden om den nat. Han er den eneste, der kan finde frem til den.I 2019 var Anna Ogilvy en talentfuld ung forfatter med en lysende fremtid foran sig. Men en nat dolkede hun – tilsyneladende uden grund – to mennesker til døde, faldt i søvn, og siden er hun ikke vågnet op. Hendes dybe søvn omtales af neurologer som ”traumatisk tilbagetrækningssyndrom”,en sjælden psykosomatisk funktionel lidelse. Tabloidpressen kalder hende ”Tornerose”.I 2023 arbejder Dr. Benedict Prince som retspsykolog og ekspert i søvnrelaterede drab. I sin tid som konsulent på The Abbey, en søvnklinik, der ligger på Londons berygtede Harley Street, har han studeret patienter, der har været anholdt for drab, men ikke kan huske deres forbrydelse.Da det ser ud, som om Anna måske vil komme til sig selv, må Benedict finde ud af, hvad der virkelig skete den aften, og om Anna skal anklages for mord, når hun endelig vågner op.

"Anna Ogilvy is a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, as she is fast asleep and with no apparent motive, she stabs two people to death--and she has yet to wake up. Anna, now dubbed "Sleeping Beauty" by the tabloids, has a rare psychosomatic disorder known as resignation syndrome. Dr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related homicides. His methods are the last hope of bringing Anna back to consciousness so she can stand trial and solving the infamous "Anna O" case. But he must be careful treating such a high-profile suspect--he's got career secrets and a complicated personal life of his own. As Anna shows the first signs of stirring, Benedict must determine what really happened and whether she should be held responsible for her crimes."--Page 4 of cover.

"The world will know her name. The average person spends 33 years of their life asleep. But, in this mysterious shadow world, how can we ever know who we really become? In 2019, Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future ahead of her. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn't woken up since. Her deep sleep is known by neurologists as 'resignation syndrome', a rare functional psychosomatic disorder. The tabloid press dubs her 'Sleeping Beauty'. Fast forward to the present day. Dr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related homicides. As a consultant at The Abbey, a sleep clinic based in London's infamous Harley Street, he has studied patients who are held on murder charges; but they have no memory of their crimes. As Anna shows the first signs of stirring, Benedict must determine what really happened that night and whether or not she should be held criminally responsible for her actions when she finally wakes up. Only she knows the truth about that night, but only he knows how to discover it"--

Stories from the Edge identifies a methodology to illuminate the early medieval history of places that lack the compelling evidence to be included in national surveys of the period. It demonstrates that even in seemingly unpromising places something can be said about the people of the period. In landscape terms it is a study of the little world, the local, the manorial complex with its church and burial place, a micro-topography, investigating the construction of social memory. Through this we see the way the early medieval landscape was perceived and how people engaged with it in a creative and imaginative series of responses. Their past and present were negotiated and expressed through the landscape. It is about stories and storytelling, about the creation of memory, the invention of home, spirituality and social hierarchy. This study re-tells some of those stories and recaptures the early medieval sense of place in Pirehill. Above all though, this is an account of living in a mutable landscape and the stories people once told there.