In 1906 America, a man investigates his own death and finds family, love, and redemption. "Stunning?Tells a grim tale of murder and duplicity in stately prose that subtly enhances the psychological horrors?." The New York Times (Notable Book of the Year) "A stunning tale of love, amnesia, child abuse, Victorian sexual repression and murder most foul?.The satisfying denouement is a shocker." Publishers Weekly (starred review)Internationally bestselling novelist Sarah Smith's books have also won the Agatha and the Massachusetts Book Award. Bonus material for book clubs available online.
Overhead, the pines shivered in a slight breeze, the sound in the branches strangely reminiscent of the sea, like the froth of a wave on a shore, and I looked up at the dense needle canopy and watched closely but could see no movement.
The dark stuff sent to Fraser and Cassie's student newspaper is disturbing.
The book is devoted to a subject Vishniac especially loved, and one whose mystery and spontaneity he captured with particular poignancy: children.
"When the crows gather over a remote Navajo Reservation in the deep Southwest, it is a sign that the thin veil that separates our world from the one beyond is about to open.
National Book Award Finalist: A man, woman, and child are bound by a desperate need—and a terrible secret—in this suspenseful, “astonishing” novel (Vogue).
Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs, a postman is found dead.
FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TORDOTCOM AND KIRKUS REVIEWS A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever. I expected many things from this trip.
Includes excerpt from The diabolical bones.
Reisden called André du Monde , who knew every odd place in Paris . Du Monde offered the garden of his house ; Reisden declined with thanks , since André refused to remove his principal garden ornament , the small traveling guillotine ...
Shuri, the Princess of Wakanda (and sister to the Black Panther), sets out to save a group of kidnapped girls in this all-new, original middle-grade novel by New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone!