Cast in Doubt - Softcover

Set in an eccentric community of expatriates living in Crete in 1975, Cast in Doubt is the story of Horace, an American gay man who writes mystery novels, and Helen, a secretive young woman he befriends. When Helen suddenly disappears, Horace's obsessive quest to find her reveals the nature of mystery and the uncertainties of his life. Tillman is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, Motion Sickness and Haunted Houses.

Lynne Tillman is the author of five novels, four collections of short stories, two collection of essays and two other nonfiction books. She collaborates often with artists and writes regularly on culture, and her fiction is anthologized widely. Her novel "No Lease on Life "and her second essay collection "What Would Lynne Tillman Do? "were nominated, respectively, for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction (1998) and in Criticism (2014). She is Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany, a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as an Arts Writers grant from the Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital (2015).