Laura Benedict, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-345-49767-3
At the start of Benedict’s plodding debut, Kate Russell, a recent transplant to the sleepy town of Carystown, Ky., is convinced she knows where nine-year-old Isabella Moon, who has been missing for two years, is buried. Sheriff Bill Delaney is
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Laura Benedict, Author . Ballantine $25 (314p) ISBN 978-0-345-49769-7
After summoning a lover through a ritual part witchcraft, part Santeria, at the start of Benedict’s spellbinding second novel (after Isabella Moon
), three 13-year-old Lolitas—Roxanne, Del and Alice—believe that their new teacher...
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Laura Benedict. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-60598-572-5
Bliss House, with its blood-stained history of madness and murder, would scare off most potential buyers, but not interior decorator Rainey Bliss Adams, in Benedict’s creepy, solidly crafted supernatural suspense novel. In the wake of the gas...
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Laura Benedict. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60598-878-8
Set in 1957 in southern Virginia, Benedict’s suspenseful, atmospheric follow-up to 2014’s Bliss House finds housewife Charlotte Bliss devastated by the death of her four-year-old daughter. At the family mansion, Charlotte sees the ghost of her...
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Laura Benedict. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-68177-229-5
Only a fervent fan of the first two installments in Benedict’s trilogy, Bliss House and Charlotte’s Story, will find much pleasure in this final volume, which delves into the dark roots of the evil in remote Old Gate, Va., circa 1876. Libertine...
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Laura Benedict, Author, Emily Durante, Read by , read by Emily Durante. Brilliance Audio $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-3440-8
When three women, friends since their tumultuous youth, find their lives unraveling, they are assisted by a mysterious stranger who arrives in their respective lives at just the right time. But who is he, where did he come from, and what exactly are
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Laura Benedict. Mulholland, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-44492-7
Kimber Hannon, the narrator of this outstanding thriller from Benedict (the Bliss House series), returns home to St. Louis after four days in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., to find that the key to her home doesn’t work. A neighbor tells Kimber that she,...
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