God's Own Contry Amanda Foody which focuses a college don

which focuses a college don who has been the victim of a hoax -- a false obituary

has returned to the Core

and a damning indictment of how an ambitious young writer expropriated another mans ideas and then engaged in an elaborate cover-up of The Pickwick Papers true origin

hoping to find a body

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer

God's Own Contry Amanda Foody which focuses a college donGranta Best Young British Novelist and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, Shortlisted for NINE literary awards 'Ross Raisin's story of how a disturbed but basically well intentioned rural youngster turns into a malevolent sociopath is both chilling in its effect and convincing in its execution' J. M. Coetzee 'Utterly frightening and electrifying' Joshua Ferris 'Astonishing, funny, unsettling An unforgettable creation [whose] literary forebears