The Other Lady Vanishes

The Other Lady Vanishes

<b>INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER<br /><br />"Quick conjures up a celluloid world that will be catnip to fans of that era evoking the sensation it was plucked straight from the Warner Bros. vault."--Entertainment Weekly<br /><br />The<i> New York Times</i> bestselling author of<i> The Girl Who Knew Too Much</i> sweeps readers back to 1930s California--where the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets...</b><br /><br />After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over.<br /><br />Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover.<br /><br />In Burning Cove, no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers, gangsters, and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda. Adelaide and Jake know better than to fall for her kind of con. But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed, they'll be drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection.<br /><br />Neither Adelaide or Jake can predict that in the shadowy underground they'll find connections to the woman Adelaide used to be--and uncover the specter of a killer who's been real all along...