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The Whitney women of Salem, Massachusetts, are renowned for reading the future in the patterns of lace. But the future doesn't always bring good news— as Towner Whitney knows all too well. When she was just fifteen her gift brought her whole world crashing down. She predicted—and then witnessed—something so horrific that she vowed never to read lace again, and fled her home and family for good. Salem is a place of ghosts for Towner, and she swore she would never return.
Yet family is a powerful tie. So it is that fifteen years later, Towner finds herself back in Salem. Her beloved Great Aunt Eva has suddenly disappeared—and when you've lived a life like Eva's, that could mean real trouble. But Salem is wreathed in sickly shadows and whispered half-memories. It's fast becoming clear that the ghosts of Towner's fractured past have not been brought fully into the light. And with them comes the threat of terrifying new disaster..
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Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Literature, Drowning victims, Mystery fiction, Suspense, Psychics, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2008-08-17, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Large type books, mystery & detective, women sleuths, thrillers, Women psychics, American fiction, Psişik, Roman, Amerikan romanı, Polish language materials, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Salem (mass.), fictionPeople
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The Lace Reader
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The Lace Reader
2007-07, Flap Jacket Press
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Originally published: London: HarperPress, 2009.
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The Lace Reader (2006) is a novel by Brunonia Barry. The novel is set in Salem, Massachusetts, the American town famous for the Salem witch trials. A crucial plot device is the Ipswich lace that the protagonist's family would make.
The novel came to be well known for its unusual route to mainstream publishing. Originally self-published by the author it became a local success story, got rave reviews in many places including Publishers Weekly, and was eventually picked up by the US branch of HarperCollins in a multimillion-dollar deal.
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