Synopses & Reviews
St. Paul, Minnesota, 1939. The body of a beautiful dime-a-dance girl is found on a hillside, and Police Lieutenant Wesley Horner, struggling and alone after his wife's recent death, heads the investigation into her murder. His chief suspect is Herbert White, an eccentric recluse and hobby photographer who spends his days recording his life in detailed journal entries and scrapbooks. In Mr. White's Confession, Robert Clark illuminates the complex relationships between truth and fiction, past and present, faith and memory. Mr. White's Confession is the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Novel.
Review
"Robert Clark has written a book that is instantly familiar and continually surprising, a meditation on memory, love and loss wrapped in the wrinkled suit of a classic American genre." Minneapolis Star-Tribune
About the Author
Robert Clark is the author of the novel
In the Deep Midwinter and River of the West, a cultural history of the Columbia River (both Picador), and
The Solace of Food, a biography of James Beard. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, he lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.