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Family secrets, crumbling estates, lingering spirits. Perfect for the spooky, but not too scary reader.
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The Vanishing
Wendy Webb - Hyperion
Format: Paperback
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Recently widowed and rendered penniless by her Ponzi-scheming husband, Julia Bishop is eager to start anew. So when a stranger appears on her doorstep with a job offer, she finds herself accepting the mysterious yet unique position: caretaker to his mother, Amaris Sinclair, the famous and rather... |
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The Ancestor: A Novel
Danielle Trussoni - William Morrow
Format: Book
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It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta "Bert" Monte receives a letter addressed to "Countess Alberta Montebianco" at her Hudson Valley, New York, home that claims she's inherited a noble title, money, and a castle in Italy. While Bert is more than a little skeptical,... |
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Book
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He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me. After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's... |
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The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive... |
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The Secret Keeper: A Novel
Kate Morton - Atria Books
Format: Book
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During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is happily dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and watches as her mother speaks to him. Before the afternoon... |
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The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny.All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight... |
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The Stranger Diaries
Elly Griffiths - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"Utterly bewitching. This atmospheric, intricate thriller, a pitch-perfect modern Gothic, chilled my blood and warmed my heart. As unforgettable as it is original." - A.J. Finn "Goose-bump spooky, smart, and haunting, in every sense. I loved this book! And you will too."... |
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Our House
Louise Candlish - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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From an internationally acclaimed author, a disturbing and addictive novel of domestic suspense where secrets kept hidden from spouses cause shocking surprises that hit home...There's nothing unusual about a new family moving in at 91 Trinity Avenue. Except it's her house. And she didn't... |
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The Companion
Katie Alender - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't... |
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The Sanatorium: A Novel
Sarah Pearse
Format: Hardcover
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Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps... |
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The Daughters of Foxcote Manor
Eve Chase - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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Readers of Lisa Jewell and Simone St. James will delight in this haunting, touching story of mothers, daughters, and belonging--and the devastating lies families tell themselves in order to survive.An isolated forest estate.A family with a terrible secret.The discovery that changes everything.England,... |
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The Retreat
Mark Edwards - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback
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A missing child. A desperate mother. And a house full of secrets.Two years ago, Julia lost her family in a tragic accident. Her husband drowned trying to save their daughter, Lily, in the river near their rural home. But the little girl's body was never found - and Julia believes Lily... |
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Voices in the Snow
Darcy Coates
Format: electronic resource
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Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can't explain. And then... nothing. When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger's gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident,... |
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