The Haunting of Maddy Clare

The Haunting of Maddy Clare 1

by Simone St. James
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 06/03/2012
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A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel.


1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis—rich, handsome, and scarred by World War I—has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide.


Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to confront an angry ghost—real or imagined—on her own. She’s even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair’s associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach.


Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy’s ghost is no hoax—she’s real, she’s angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Now, Sarah and Matthew must discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance—before she destroys them all....

ISBN:
9781101577233
9781101577233
Category:
Thriller / suspense
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
06-03-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Simone St. James

Simone St. James is the award-winning author of five previous novels.

She spent twenty years behind the scenes in the television business before leaving to write full-time.

She lives just outside of Toronto with her husband and a spoiled rescue cat.

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This book is set after the Great War. It is told from Sarah's perspective- a young, somewhat naive character. She's very similar to Kitty in Silence for the Dead, but different enough to not be a carbon copy. She's not as self assured and cocky.

Sarah is called by an employment agency about a job working for a "writer". Turns out this writer is actually a ghost hunter called Alistair... who needs her help on a particularly dangerous new assignment. His other assistant, Matthew, is away and the clients specifically request a female to help exorcise the malevolent spirit of their former servant, Maddy.

Things obviously get out of hand pretty quickly. Maddy is no ordinary poltergeist... Oh no. This is one well pissed off lady. Why is she this angry? What happened to her? And why is everyone so weirdly offensive around here?

Anyway, this book just ate my afternoon and evening and I want to move into the story now.

All the characters are great- the good guys good, the evil guys evil and it was creepy as hell. Like actual skin crawling creepy at a few points. It takes a lot to make me nervous!

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