Bruce Hartman

The Rules of Dreaming Bruce Hartman

Selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the "Best Indie Books of 2013" and awarded the Kirkus Star for Books of Exceptional Merit.   Award-winning author Bruce Hartman is back with THE RULES OF DREAMING - A tale of madness, music--and murder.

A beautiful opera singer hangs herself on the eve of her debut at the Met.  Seven years later the opera she was rehearsing--Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann--begins to take over the lives of her two schizophrenic children, the doctors who treat them and everyone who crosses their paths, until all are enmeshed in a world of deception, delusion and death.  Onto this shadowy stage steps Nicole P., a graduate student who discovers that she too has been assigned a role in the drama.  What strange destiny is being worked out in their lives?

"A mind-bending marriage of ambitious literary theory and classic murder mystery... An exciting, original take on the literary mystery genre."  -  Kirkus Reviews
"A great read and highly recommended." - Jack Magnus, Readers' Favorite Book Reviews.