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Informationen zum Autor Laura McHugh is the author of The Weight of Blood , winner of an International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel and a Silver Falchion Award for Best First Novel: Literary Suspense. The Weight of Blood was named a Best Book of the Year by BookPage , the Kansas City Star , and the Sunday Times, and was also nominated for an Alex Award, Barry Award, and GoodReads Choice Award (Best Mystery and Best Debut). She lives in Missouri with her husband and children. Klappentext 'Kept me guessing and re-guessing all the way to its inexorable conclusion' Ruth Ware Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10. Superb and subtle psychological suspense and a compelling mystery too . . . I thought I knew who did it but I was wrong four times Lee Child This robust old-fashioned gothic mystery has everything you're looking for: a creepy old house a tenant with a secret history and even a few ghosts. Laura McHugh's novel sits at the intersection of memory and history astutely asking whether we carry the past or it carries us Jodi PicoultArrowood is the grandest of historical houses lining the Mississippi. It has its own stories and ghostly presence: it's where two small twin girls were abducted ten years ago& Now Arden has returned to her childhood home determined to establish what really happened to her sisters that traumatic summer.But the house and the surrounding town hold their secrets close - and the truth when Arden finds it is more devastating than she ever could have imagined.Family lies buried secrets and a terrifying truth lie at the heart of this brilliant and haunting crime novel. Zusammenfassung Arrowood is the grandest of historical houses lining the Mississippi. It has its own stories and ghostly presence: it's where two small twin girls were abducted ten years ago... Now, Arden has returned to her childhood home determined to establish what really happened to her sisters that traumatic summer....
