By the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE
WAGER ‘Chilling . . . Poignant . . . Haunting and gripping . . . gets into worlds that are
otherwise invisible to us’ Daily Mail A Polish detective tries to determine whether an
author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern novel An arson investigator races
to prove whether a man about to be executed is innocent Scientists stalk a sea monster …
In this engrossing collection David Grann sets out to unravel the truth of twelve great
real-life mysteries. Each of these mesmerising stories is true the protagonists are mortal
and pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Some of the characters are driven by deception and
murder. Others go mad. After all as Holmes puts it ‘Life is infinitely stranger than
anything which the mind of man could invent.’
