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Zusatztext If I could choose just one thriller from all that I have read this year to recommend as a Christmas present for a friend! it would be All Things Cease to Appear. This remarkable novel! an utterly compelling tale that is part supernatural ghost story! part acutely observed psychological thriller and part gripping family saga Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Brundage graduated from Hampshire College, attended the NYU film school, was a screenwriting fellow at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and received an M.F.A. as well as a James Michener Award from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. She has taught at a variety of colleges and universities, most recently at Skidmore College as a visiting writer in residence. She lives near Albany in upstate New York. Klappentext Ghosts, murder, a terrifying psychotic who seems normal, and beautiful writing. Loved it' Stephen King'Can make you gasp in astonishment or break your heart with a single line' Wall St Journal'Superb. Think a more literary, and feminist, Gone Girl' VogueThis begins the morning Catherine Clare died. The day her daughter spent in the house with her. The evening her husband came home to find her. This becomes the tale of their marriage, and the ones around them. A tale of bonds between families, between lives living and lost and of the lonely ones that share no bonds at all. Who should be pitied. Who must be feared. Zusammenfassung Imagine Fargo written by Donna Tartt, unravelling the mind of a psychopath as nuanced as Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley.