Joseph Olshan – författare

Ten years ago, Will's lover disappeared on a night swim in the Pacific. Was Will's emptiness a feeling of mourning or rejection? He now meets Sean, who is himself the object of a passionate fatal obsession. As they dodge one another, they move in a network of self-conscious, gym-obsessed men.

When David's mother brought Clara Mayfield from Jamaica to live in their affluent household, David told the exotic intruder to go back to where she came from. But the indomitable Clara would take no nonsense, and soon began to capture David's affections.

When Sam Solomon sees a stunning erotic drawing in the home of a dying art dealer, he is overwhelmed by a tide of confusion and longing. The dealer has hired Sam to write his memoirs yet withholds crucial information - information that Sam suspects 'Vanitas', the drawing, may hold answers to.

Clara, heroine of "Clara's Heart" and the former nanny of Will Kaplan, another of Olshan's beloved characters from "Nightswimmer", comes once more to his rescue: Marie Claire, Will's friend and mother of his former lover, may have been caught in the catastrophic jumbo-jet crash off Long Island. Yet mysteriously the airline throws her very boarding of the doomed plane into doubt. So where is she? As the conundrum looms, Will's past loves and obsessions unfold with gripping intensity - the ghost of his brother Daniel, killed in a fatal skiing accident, the aching memories of Peter. Clara is aware that to the outside world 'an elderly black woman and a young white man didn't add up,' but she and Will are tied into a bond as strong as any blood family's, and Will needs his old nanny's wit and heart now more than ever. Joseph Olshan interweaves the narrative threads with spellbinding agility. He shows how people may choose families different to those into which they are born, and how , through love, past personal failings may be forged into redemptive new beginnings.

One night, two men waving guns and knives break and enter their Paris hotel room, terrorizing Russell and his much older companion, a famous American poet named Edward Cannon. The intruders, not finding what they seemingly expected, leave without further incident. But the baffling, traumatic events overwhelm Cannon who dies in his sleep later that night. Now Russell is left to ponder the meaning of the attack, what to do with the poet's unfinished, problematic memoir and, perhaps most importantly, how to reconstruct and move forward with his own life.Hearing of the disturbing circumstances of Cannon's death, an Italian writer, Marina Vezzoli, invites Russell to recuperate at her villa in Tuscany. But what at first seems like a generous invitation slowly reveals itself to be a calculated offer. As Russell's stay in Italy lengthens, he begins to realize that the people in his life are using or manipulating him, most of all the poet's New York publishers who, against the dying poet's wishes, are trying to acquire his unfinished manuscript. Looming over everything is the long and fascinating legacy of Villa Guidi, where during Word War II a Jewish family hid in the subterranean floors, later undergoing a conversion to Catholicism. In an echo of this dramatic history, Russell is forced to undergo a conversion of his own in order to find redemption and meaning in his life.

Award-winning author Joseph Olshan’s latest novel, Milo’s Reckoning, follows a grieving New York PhD student through an investigation into the death of his mentor, leading him along a trail of dark clues that take him to Italy and beyond.When Milo Rossi, a graduate student in Italian at New York University, learns of the sudden and mysterious death of his mentor, Lenny D'Ambrosio, despite the official ruling of suicide, he suspects foul play. Embarking on a quest for answers, his investigation unexpectedly intertwines with the accidental death of his brother, Carlo, six years prior. As Milo delves deeper, he encounters unsettling truths about his brother's life and death, uncovering a web of secrets and hidden connections. His search takes him across New York City and eventually to Italy, where he stumbles upon a horrifying reality: a network of human sex trafficking and exploitation. Confronted with the harsh realities of human suffering and the complexities of justice, Milo's journey is one of personal reckoning and profound transformation. He must confront his own grief, question his assumptions, and ultimately decide how to respond to the darkness he has uncovered.