- Fiction, horror, Fiction, thrillers, general, Estranged families, serial killers
“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories -- she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there. Coming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren’t alone. A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back, and is slowly stripping Vera’s childhood for spare parts. He insists that he isn’t the one leaving notes around the house in her father’s handwriting… but who else could it possibly be? There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House. Vera must face them, and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes.
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Grave, classical in form, intimate and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Sarah Gailey
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 328
- Publisher
- Tor Books, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Hodder & Stoughton
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781529354553
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Hugo award winner Sarah Gailey lives and works in California. Their nonfiction has been published by dozens of venues internationally including Locus and the Boston Globe. Their fiction has been published internationally in over six different languages. Their debut novel, Magic for Liars, was an LA Times bestseller. Their most recent novel, The Echo Wife, is available now everywhere books are sold. You can find links to their work at sarahgailey.com and on social media at @gaileyfrey. Image ©Allan Amato 2019.
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