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It is autumn 1937 when a mystery woman appears in Port Alma, a sea village nestled on the chilly coast of Maine. A fragile, green-eyed beauty, the woman arrives with little more than the clothes on her back and a wealth of unspoken secrets. Before a year goes by, she will flee Port Alma on the same bus that brought her there. But before she goes, she will irrevocably alter the lives of two brothers — leaving one dead, and the other perched on the edge of madness. There is much that Dora March has hidden. But in Port Alma, Maine, there are other secrets, too....

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Cook is a master of sustained suspense. This brilliant evocation of how the past infects the present ... lures readers into labyrinths of loss, guilt, and evil intent. Booklist (starred review) [The story] is swept along by Cook's artistry, his insights into broken people, his austere imagery of the barren landscapes that attract them. The New York Times Cook writes very well; his tone is sad, even foreboding, yet almost elegiac, as he weaves ... an intricate fabric of tragedy. The Boston Globe Don't miss Thomas H. Cook's other award-winning works of suspense: Instruments of NightEvidence of BloodThe Chatham School Affair Winners of the Edgar Award for Best Novel: Breakheart HillMortal Memory Available wherever Bantam Books are sold and coming soon in hardcover: Into the Web

Cook is a master of sustained suspense. This brilliant evocation of how the past infects the present ... lures readers into labyrinths of loss, guilt, and evil intent. <br>-- Booklist (starred review) <br> [The story] is swept along by Cook's artistry, his insights into broken people, his austere imagery of the barren landscapes that attract them. <br>-- The New York Times <br> Cook writes very well; his tone is sad, even foreboding, yet almost elegiac, as he weaves ... an intricate fabric of tragedy. <br>-- The Boston Globe <br>Don't miss Thomas H. Cook's other award-winning works of suspense: <br>Instruments of Night<br>Evidence of Blood<br>The Chatham School Affair <br>Winners of the Edgar Award for Best Novel: <br>Breakheart Hill<br>Mortal Memory <br>Available wherever Bantam Books are sold and coming soon in hardcover: <br>Into the Web<br>

Cook is a master of sustained suspense. This brilliant evocation of how the past infects the present ... lures readers into labyrinths of loss, guilt, and evil intent. -- Booklist (starred review) [The story] is swept along by Cook's artistry, his insights into broken people, his austere imagery of the barren landscapes that attract them. -- The New York Times Cook writes very well; his tone is sad, even foreboding, yet almost elegiac, as he weaves ... an intricate fabric of tragedy. -- The Boston Globe Don't miss Thomas H. Cook's other award-winning works of suspense: Instruments of NightEvidence of BloodThe Chatham School AffairWinners of the Edgar Award for Best Novel: Breakheart HillMortal MemoryAvailable wherever Bantam Books are sold and coming soon in hardcover: Into the Web

Cook is a master of sustained suspense. This brilliant evocation of how the past infects the present ... lures readers into labyrinths of loss, guilt, and evil intent. <br>-- Booklist (starred review)<br><br> [The story] is swept along by Cook's artistry, his insights into broken people, his austere imagery of the barren landscapes that attract them. <br>-- The New York Times <br><br> Cook writes very well; his tone is sad, even foreboding, yet almost elegiac, as he weaves ... an intricate fabric of tragedy. <br>-- The Boston Globe <br><br>Don't miss Thomas H. Cook's other award-winning works of suspense: <br><br>Instruments of Night<br>Evidence of Blood<br>The Chatham School Affair<br><br>Winners of the Edgar Award for Best Novel: <br><br>Breakheart Hill<br>Mortal Memory<br><br>Available wherever Bantam Books are sold and coming soon in hardcover: <br><br>Into the Web<br>

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Thomas H. Cook is the author of fifteen novels, including The Chatham School Affair, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel; Instruments of Night; Breakheart Hill; Mortal Memory; and Sacrificial Ground and Blood Innocents, both Edgar Award nominees; and two early works about true crimes, Early Graves and Blood Echoes, which was also nominated for an Edgar Award. He lives in New York City and Cape Cod, where he is at work on his next novel, Into the Web.

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