The Other Lady Vanishes
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Seeking a fresh start, Adelaide, moves to a California seaside resort and takes a job at a tea shop frequented by Hollywood denizen's always in need of hangover cures. Following the murder of the local psychic, she is drawn into a world of drug dealers, and...
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Seeking a fresh start, Adelaide, moves to a California seaside resort and takes a job at a tea shop frequented by Hollywood denizen's always in need of hangover cures. Following the murder of the local psychic, she is drawn into a world of drug dealers, and gangsters. Within this shadowy underground, she finds the secret to her own past and uncovers a killer who's been part of her life all along
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The 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're drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection.
Neither Adelaide nor 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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***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected copy proof*** Copyright © 2018 Amanda Quick
Chapter One
The screams of the patients on ward five told Adelaide Blake that time had run out.
She stopped searching for the key to the file cabinet and went to stand at the door of the small office. She had not dared to turn on any lights in the laboratory. There was enough moonlight spilling through the high, arched windows to illuminate the long workbenches and create ominous silhouettes of the equipment and instruments.
The wails and shrieks and howls from the floor below were escalating rapidly. Something or, more likely, someone was agitating the patients. The ward on the fifth floor was reserved for the most hopelessly mad and insane. The locked rooms housed those who were forever lost in their own private hells. Some of the patients were afflicted with violent, paranoid visions and hallucinations. Others battled fearsome monsters that only they could see.
Soon after she had been locked in one of the cell-like rooms on ward five she had learned that the patients provided an excellent alarm system, especially at night. Nights were always the worst.
The nerve-shattering chorus of the damned echoed up the stone staircase. There was no one around to calm the inmates. The orderlies on the locked ward had been given the night off.
She could not delay any longer. If she did not escape now she might not make it at all. She would have to leave the file behind.
She left the doorway of the office and started to make her way cautiously through the maze of workbenches. She had plotted her exit strategy down to the smallest detail but the last minute decision to look for the file had put the plan in jeopardy. She had to get out of the laboratory immediately or she might not escape.
Originally, the Rushbrook Sanitarium had been the private mansion of a wealthy, eccentric industrialist who had
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intended to entertain on a grand scale. The result was a gothic nightmare of a house with five floors, endless hallways and the tower room that now served as a laboratory. The single redeeming architectural virtue as far as Adelaide was concerned was that there were a number of discreetly concealed staircases intended for the use of a large staff.
Most of the servants stairs had been permanently closed and sealed long ago. Others had disappeared under various waves of renovations and remodeling projects. But a few were still accessible. She had the key to one of the little-used staircases.
She was halfway across the lab when she heard the panicky footsteps on the tower stairs. Someone was coming up to the laboratory. Whoever it was would see her as soon as he turned on the lights.
There was nowhere to hide except behind Ormsby s desk. Discovery spelled doom. Dr. Gill would order increased security for her. She might never have another chance to escape.
A cold sense of certainty sliced through the fear. If necessary, she would try to fight her way out of the sanitarium. She could not would not go back to the cell on the fifth floor. She would rather die.
She turned quickly, searching the shadows for something that could function as a weapon. She knew the lab all too well because it was where they brought her when Gill and Ormsby decided to give her another dose of the drug. In her desperate attempt to hold onto her sanity by focusing on an escape plan she had memorized every inch of the tower room.
She went to the nearest cabinet, yanked open the door and pulled a couple of glass jars off the shelf. She had no idea what she grabbed it was too dark to read the labels but she had seen Ormsby take a variety of chemicals out of the cabinet. Many were flammable. Some were highly acidic.
With the two jars in hand she hurried back into the office. Dr. Ormsby s desk was neat and tidy. He was a fussy little man
Most of the servants stairs had been permanently closed and sealed long ago. Others had disappeared under various waves of renovations and remodeling projects. But a few were still accessible. She had the key to one of the little-used staircases.
She was halfway across the lab when she heard the panicky footsteps on the tower stairs. Someone was coming up to the laboratory. Whoever it was would see her as soon as he turned on the lights.
There was nowhere to hide except behind Ormsby s desk. Discovery spelled doom. Dr. Gill would order increased security for her. She might never have another chance to escape.
A cold sense of certainty sliced through the fear. If necessary, she would try to fight her way out of the sanitarium. She could not would not go back to the cell on the fifth floor. She would rather die.
She turned quickly, searching the shadows for something that could function as a weapon. She knew the lab all too well because it was where they brought her when Gill and Ormsby decided to give her another dose of the drug. In her desperate attempt to hold onto her sanity by focusing on an escape plan she had memorized every inch of the tower room.
She went to the nearest cabinet, yanked open the door and pulled a couple of glass jars off the shelf. She had no idea what she grabbed it was too dark to read the labels but she had seen Ormsby take a variety of chemicals out of the cabinet. Many were flammable. Some were highly acidic.
With the two jars in hand she hurried back into the office. Dr. Ormsby s desk was neat and tidy. He was a fussy little man
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Autoren-Porträt von Amanda Quick
Amanda Quick is a pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, the author of more than fifty New York Times bestsellers. She writes historical romance novels under the Quick name, contemporary romantic suspense novels under the Krentz name, and futuristic romance novels under the pseudonym Jayne Castle. There are more than 35 million copies of her books in print.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Amanda Quick
- 2019, 448 Seiten, Maße: 17,145 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Berkley
- ISBN-10: 0399585346
- ISBN-13: 9780399585340
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for The Other Lady VanishesIt feels like Quick found a script to one of those film noir delights and spun it into gold, so genuine is the atmosphere she crafts. Within a few chapters, you can t escape the sensation that you ve fallen back in time into a black-and-white picture rife with mystery, murder, and a chemistry that develops in spite of (or maybe because of) the mayhem around the two central lovers. Entertainment Weekly
Praise for The Girl Who Knew Too Much
The action-packed plot is kick-started at page one...Quick has a great time with the 1930s Hollywood-glamour atmosphere. The Seattle Times
There are fierce forces at play in every page of The Girl Who Knew Too Much, and you won t be able to put down this captivating mystery until the last page is fervently turned. What s not to love about a scandalous historical tale set in the glamorous years of 1930s Hollywood? Redbook
Quick is often named as one of the inventors of the romantic mystery, and she writes the genre effortlessly the love story and the mystery are beautifully intertwined here. The Washington Post
[Quick s] fascinating plots draw her readers along like lambs to a slaughter...a master storyteller. The Huffington Post
A fun, spunky, read that contains plenty of simmering sexual chemistry, which will most definitely satiate the most ardent fans of Amanda Quick. New York Journal of Books
A fascinating look into the bygone days of the glamorous era of Hollywood. Fresh Fiction
All of the key ingredients wit-infused writing, sharply etched characters, and plenty of simmering sexual chemistry that readers have come to expect from Quick snap into perfect alignment in this stellar novel. Put that together with a plot that neatly marries high-stakes suspense and a glamorous, old Hollywood setting, and you have a blockbuster that will not only delight historical-romance readers but also
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entice historical-mystery fans to join in on the fun. Booklist (starred review)
This swiftly moving romance brims with surprising plot twists, delicious sensuality, and a delightfully classy 1930s California setting. An adventurous romp that will have readers hungry for more. Library Journal (starred review)
Quick s ambitious novel, set during the golden age of Hollywood, sparkles with wit and clever plotting. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
This swiftly moving romance brims with surprising plot twists, delicious sensuality, and a delightfully classy 1930s California setting. An adventurous romp that will have readers hungry for more. Library Journal (starred review)
Quick s ambitious novel, set during the golden age of Hollywood, sparkles with wit and clever plotting. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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