Blackthorn House

von Joshua D McDougal

162 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Blackthorn HouseA novel by Joshua McDougalA blizzard seals seven guests inside a Massachusetts manor. At midnight their host is found dead behind a locked door. By dawn there is a second body in the ice house, the phones are dead, and the only detective in the building is the one person nobody invited.Harlan Crowe summoned them for a weekend and a midnight letter. He did not live to see either finished. The study has two doors and only one key. The bottle on the desk is open. The envelope on the blotter is not. Downstairs his children, his doctor, his lawyer, his priest, and the woman who keeps his calendar wait in a drawing room that has already begun to choose sides.Mara Quinn came because a dead sergeant once trusted her with rooms that had been cleaned. She is on leave, unofficial, and snowed in with a house that knows more passages than it admits. When the landline dies and the county road closes, the weekend stops being a reading of a will and becomes a clock. Someone in the house helped that clock. Someone else is still walking the walls.A locked-room mystery of money, medicine, and a rumor of blood - set on a ridge the plow cannot reach until the living have already said too much.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176838084
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published