I finished Trauma by Patrick McGrath

“Trauma is Patrick McGrath at his dark-hearted best. Read one page–one sentence–and you’ll be hooked by this elegant psychological thriller set in the gritty, pre-gentrification Manhattan of the 1970s…Trauma reminds you of how satisfying it is to be unable to put a book down–and then, when it’s over, to be sorry and relieved to enter your own comparatively unhaunted life.” —Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine

Holy moly do I love Patrick McGrath.

• Here his entry on Wikipedia
• The Asylum blog has a nice review of Trauma and an interview with McGrath

Other books by McGrath: Spider, Asylum, The Grotesque, Port Mungo, Martha Peake, and Dr. Haggard's Disease.