The Rules of Dreaming

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.