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An Unexplained Death

The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere

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An Unexplained Death

By: Mikita Brottman
Narrated by: Mikita Brottman
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When the body of a missing man is discovered in the Belvedere, an apparent suicide, resident Mikita Brottman becomes obsessed with the mysterious circumstances of his death. The Belvedere used to be a hotel dating back to Baltimore's Golden Age but is now converted into flats, and as Brottman investigates the perplexing case of the dead man, she soon becomes caught up in the strange and violent secrets of the Belvedere's past. Her compulsions drive her to an investigation lasting over a decade.

Utterly absorbing and unnerving, An Unexplained Death will lead you down the dark and winding corridors of the Belvedere and into the deadly impulses and obsessions of the human heart.

©2018 Mikita Brottman (P)2018 Canongate Books Ltd Murder True Crime Crime

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Critic reviews

Not just a thrilling whodunit, with new clues unfolding every chapter, it's a beautifully written elegy about the mystery of death . . . This is one riveting, heartbreaking read (SKIP HOLLANDSWORTH, author of The Midnight Assassin)
Gripping, immersive, and beautifully written, with an unsettling juxtaposition of criminality and mundanity. Brottman blends tragic and gruesome details with an intelligent and refined touch (HENRY BOND, author of Lacan at the Scene)
There is a beautiful circuit between Brottman's sense that people are constantly casually forgetting her, and her compulsion to devote a book to a person who is in a state of being forgotten (ALISSA BENNETT, author of Dead is Better)
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Struggled a bit listening to this book, a lot of unnecessary writing about suicide, the novelists own life and slightly rambling in general in parts. The book would have been a bit shorter without all the filler parts if she had just stuck to the story but I wanted to hear about the murder/suicide so would have preferred shorter.

Just ok

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If, like me, you are looking for an insightful, gripping and addictive true crime book please move along, there is nothing to see here. The actual case is probably discussed in only about 20% of the book. The rest is the ramblings of a seemingly paranoid and self centred author who drones on about her own sensitivities and recounts random stories that go nowhere. It’s rubbish

Extremely dull and tiresome

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