Mania (2009) (edit title/settings)

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Characters edit see section history

• Nick Wilder: Photographer
• Sam Wilder: Nick's successful older brother
• Sara Garland: part time actress, step-daughter to Jason Hamlin
• Jason Hamlin: multimillionaire, egomaniac
• Laura Daly: editor of newspaper
• Adam Stolie: homicide detective
• Jillian: wife of Jason Hamlin, Sara's mother
• Blake Werner: former business partner of Sam's
• Dr. Barnes: psychiatrist
• Daniel Scott: son of murder victim
• Dombrowski: police Lt.
• Ralph Van Gundy: Add a description of this character.
• Todd Wheeler: caretaker, working for Hamlins
• Elizabeth Munroe
• James Warren
• Gutterson
• Dickenson
• Henry Dean
• Sheila
• Harold
• Jackson Ferry: vagrant, delusional
• Bill
• Emily
• Claire Scott: murder victim
• Delilah

Quotes edit see section history

• “You walk your destiny through a labyrinth.”

  Laura Daly

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• “Dad was driving,” Sam said. “You know how much ice there is on the road.”

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• Sam’s behind that biotech start-up, isn’t he? Matrix Zarcon, right? He and that fellow from Harvard—Blake Werner—started the company a couple of years ago.” “That’s right.”

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• One month earlier, at the beginning of November, Nick had been woken up just before dawn by the buzzing of his cell phone.

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• “There’s no way to sugarcoat this. What you have described to me sounds like the onset of schizophrenia.”

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• Small white pieces of moonlight seemed to be sewn into its fabric, and as it twisted and floated in the air, shadows played on the white marble countertop beneath it.

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• entire staff, from her editors down to the clerks. Nevertheless, she rarely raised her voice. She never tried to dominate at all. Instead, her authority derived from her character. She led because people wanted to follow.

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• Belief in yourself is a graceful blindness. The belief of others is a blind grace, a precious faith.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Seattle, WA: main setting story
• San Juan Island: one of Hamlin's homes there
• Wisconsin: where Nick and Sam grew up
• New York
• Madison
• Lake Washington
• Bellevue: one of Hamlin's homes was here
• Hudson Hotel
• Milwaukee

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Craig Larsen (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 3065 vol. 16
• Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Violence, adult themes

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Psychological & Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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