The Forgers is one of only 3 crime/mystery/thriller books included on PW’s “The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2014.”

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I am very excited to send you the information of the critically acclaimed novelist Bradford Morrow’s The Forgers (Mysterious Press, November 2014).  Morrow has been praised as “a fine writer with an extraordinary feel for the physicality of fiction” (Boston Globe), “one of America’s major literary voices” (Publishers Weekly), and “a mesmerizing storyteller who casts an irresistible spell” (Joyce Carol Oates). And his latest is already receiving advance praise: Nicholas Basbanes, author of A Gentle Madness and On Paper, has raved, “With The Forgers, Bradford Morrow has masterfully combined an exquisitely thickening plot, an informed appreciation of the antiquarian book world, and a deep understanding of what makes the obsessive people who inhabit this quirky community do the sort of impassioned things they sometimes do, up to and including the commission of horrific crimes. . . . This is a bibliomystery you will want to inhale in one sitting.” A richly told thriller about the dark side of the rare book world, The Forgers kicks off when an amateur signature forger is brutally murdered, and his sister’s lover—also an expert at reproducing the handwriting of literary greats—becomes entangled with a mysterious book dealer who might have something to do with the case.

The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. Adam’s sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will—a convicted if unrepenting literary forger—struggle to come to terms with the seemingly incomprehensible murder. But when Will begins receiving threatening letters written in the handwriting of long-dead authors, from someone who knows secrets about Adam’s death and Will’s past, he understands his own life is also on the line—and attempts to forge a new beginning for himself and Meg. In The Forgers, Morrow reveals the passion that drives collectors to the razor-sharp edge of morality, brilliantly confronting the hubris and mortal danger of rewriting history with a fraudulent pen.

Bradford Morrow is the author of the novels Come Sunday, The Almanac Branch (PEN/Faulkner Award finalist), Trinity Fields (Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist), Giovanni’s Gift, Ariel’s Crossing, and The Diviner’s Tale; several collections of poetry; and a children’s book. He is the founding editor of Conjunctions and has contributed to many anthologies and journals. A Bard Center Fellow and professor of literature at Bard College, he lives in New York City.

Morrow’s first crime novel, The Diviner’s Tale, was published by Atlantic Books (UK), Editora Record (Brazil), Euromedia (Czech), and Elliot Edizioni (Italy).

“The Forgers is remarkable. Bradford Morrow is remarkable. The Real Thing, which is rare on this earthly plane.”—Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours and The Snow Queen

“The Forgers is a bibliophile’s dream, an existential thriller set in the world of rare book collecting that is also a powerfully moving exposé of the forger's dangerous skill: what happens when you lie so well that you lose touch with what is real? In beautifully controlled prose, Morrow traces the shaky line between paranoia and gut-intuition, memory and self-delusive fiction, hollow and real love. It’s perfect all-night flashlight reading—Bradford Morrow at his lyrical, surprising, suspenseful, genre-bending best.”—Karen Russell 

“The Forgers is quintessential Bradford Morrow. Brilliantly written as a suspense novel, lethally enthralling to read, and filled with arcane, fascinating information—in this case, the rarified world of high-level forgery.”—Joyce Carol Oates

“In The Forgers, Bradford Morrow hits the sweet spot at the juncture of genre crime fiction and the mainstream novel with an almost mystical perfection. Readers of either form will be gratified and impressed, and those who are readers of both will be thrilled. In its deep knowledge of books and those who trade in them, and in its thousand vivid, unexpected turns of phrase—its depth of both subject and language—The Forgers could have been written only by Morrow: and at only the rare and striking level of mastery he has now achieved.”—Peter Straub, author of A Dark Matter and Ghost Story

“With The Forgers, Bradford Morrow has masterfully combined an exquisitely thickening plot, an informed appreciation of the antiquarian book world, and a deep understanding of what makes the obsessive people who inhabit this quirky community do the sort of impassioned things they sometimes do, up to and including the commission of horrific crimes. Morrow has hit the ball out of the park—The Forgers is a grand slam, in the bottom of the ninth, to boot. This is a bibliomystery you will want to inhale in one sitting.”—Nicholas Basbanes, author of A Gentle Madness and On Paper