The Other Lady Vanishes
Books | Fiction / Romance / Historical / 20th Century
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Amanda Quick
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Quick conjures up a celluloid world that will be catnip to fans of that era evoking the sensation it was plucked straight from the Warner Bros. vault."--Entertainment WeeklyThe New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s California--where the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets...After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over.Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover.In Burning Cove, no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers, gangsters, and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda. Adelaide and Jake know better than to fall for her kind of con. But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed, they'll be drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection.Neither Adelaide or Jake can predict that in the shadowy underground they'll find connections to the woman Adelaide used to be--and uncover the specter of a killer who's been real all along...
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Author
Amanda Quick
Pages
352
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2018-05-08
ISBN
0399585338 9780399585333
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"It was an intriguing mystery that spread light on a forgot part of history."
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Tiffany Moloney
"This book was so much better than I thought it was going to be. I honestly thought it was going to be an average murder mystery, but it had such an appeal that I found myself really liking what I was reading. I don’t even know what it was about it, but I loved the simplicity and the way it kept you tied in to keep going and how badly you wanted to figure out what happened. There were so many aspects that went into the story, that managed to keep it all tied together. This would make for a wonderful short television series. If you are doubting the quality of this, just jump in and I promise that you will be glad you did. A pleasant surprise."