Summary
“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow….”
In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and tormenting dreams. But something more …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593550182 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593550188 |
| Author: | Simone St. James |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 8 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 315g |
| Dimensions: | 131mm x 204mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for Silence for the Dead
“Vivid, eerie and atmospheric. St James’ latest will simultaneously tug at your heart strings and send chills down your spine. Absolutely riveting.”—Anna Lee Huber, award-winning author of the Lady Darby Historical Mystery series
“Kudos for Simone St. James. I was swept away by this atmospheric and truly spine-chilling page turner, a riveting tale of dark suspense set in 1919 within a crumbling mansion turned mental hospital. If you love a good ghost story, you will be entranced.”—Mary Sharratt, author of Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen and Daughters of the Witching Hill
Praise for the novels of Simone St. James
“Downright scary and atmospheric. I flew through the pages of this romantic and suspenseful period piece…”—New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner
“Anyone who loves Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt will enjoy this book… highly recommended.”—Historical Novels Society
“The perfect book to curl up with by the fire on a stormy night…although perhaps not by yourself in an empty house!”—Katherine Webb, author of The Unseen
“Another chilling story.…St. James delivers a quickly paced read that will satisfy both new and old fans.”—Publishers Weekly
“A perfectly balanced combination of mystery, romance, ghost story and history.”—Romantic Booklovers, Top Pick
“An inventively dark gothic ghost story. Read it with the lights on. Simply spellbinding.”—Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter Sea
Simone St. James
Simone St. James is the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases, The Sun Down Motel, and The Broken Girls. She spent twenty years behind the scenes in the television business before leaving to write full-time.
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