Overview
Artist Faith Crowell is nearly forty and feels--with some relief, some regret--that she's now safely past the age of passion, obsessive love, and unsatisfied longings. Concentrating on contenting herself with a solitary life in Manhattan, complete with cat, comfy apartment, and a successful if hardly brilliant career, Faith is shocked when grande dame Frances Griffin drops in to her studio to ask her to paint murals for the ballroom of her legendary Long Island mansion. Flattered, Faith accepts. She eventually learns of the brutal, unsolved murder of Frances' daughter and begins to wonder why she was chosen for this project, why her employer seems intent on confiding all her secrets to her, and what, exactly, lies beneath the surface of Frances Griffin's public life.
Full Product Details
Author: Jane Stanton Hitchcock ,
Anna Fields
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks,U.S.
Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks,U.S.
Edition: Library ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 0.60cm
, Length: 12.70cm
Weight: 0.091kg
ISBN: 9780786190010
ISBN 10: 0786190019
Publication Date: 01 June 2003
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
"""A tautly controlled narrative voice and a prose style that transcends genre key the action in this gothic thriller."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Anna Fields portrays Crowell as savvy and intuitive, traits that will help her when she learns of the unsolved murder a decade earlier...Fields captures all the suspense of the story as Crowell explores the past just a bit too creatively."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""Those few among Hitchcock's characters who aren't charming, unusual, and thoroughly likable are certainly overflowing with surprises. Pure pleasure for psychological-suspense fans."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""With touches of Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Patricia Highsmith, and Daphne du Maurier, [this] will appeal to any listener who appreciates excellent writing, complex characters, and absolutely fantastic narrators."" -- ""Kliatt"""
Author Information
Jane Stanton Hitchcock is the New York Times bestselling author of Mortal Friends, The Witches' Hammer, Social Crimes, and Trick of the Eye, as well as several plays. She lives with her husband, syndicated foreign-affairs columnist Jim Hoagland, in New York City and Washington, DC. Anna Fields (1965-2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio.
