Broken

<p>A woman wakes up in the middle of the night. A strange man is in her bedroom. She lies there in silence paralyzed with fear. The woman is an author and the man one of her characters one in a long line that waits in her driveway for the time when she'll tell their stories. He is so desperate that he has resorted to breaking into her house and demanding that she begin. He the author decides is named Alvar Eide forty-two years old single works in a gallery. He lives a quiet orderly life and likes it that way--no demands no unpleasantness. Until the icy winter morning when a young drug addict skinny and fragile walks into the gallery. Alvar gives her a cup of coffee to warm her up. And then one day she appears on his doorstep. <em>Broken</em> is an unconventional subtle and disturbing mystery from a master of the form.</p>