Jane Chelius Knihy

The novel that started Michael Dibdin's career, The Tryst, is an eerie psychological thriller in which a woman's buried past lures her deeper and deeper into the Dickensian underbelly of 1980s London. A psychiatrist with a fading marriage, Aileen Macklin is haunted by a young man who comes to her in a panic, begging to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for protection. Gary Dunn is ravaged by his squalid existence, paralyzed with fear about a murder he has witnessed, and convinced he may be next. Unfortunately for Gary, he just may be right. And unfortunately for Aileen, she becomes far more involved in his case than professional ethics would recommend.