In THE OTHER LADY VANISHES, Adelaide Blake is living simply and trying to start over in Burning Cove, California. She recently escaped from Rushbrook, a private sanitarium, but she knows she isn't crazy and will never go back even if others believe she should.
Jake Truett arrives in Burning Cove, a place where Hollywood movie stars and big wigs come to escape the dramas and scandals of their world. Recently widowed, he seems to fit the bill of a mover and shaker needing down time, but Addie has a feeling there is more to him. There is, much more. Jake is looking for a blackmailer and during his search he finds more than he ever expected.
THE OTHER LADY VANISHES throws you into the action, hypnotizes you right along as the pages almost turn themselves and leaves you wanting more of this world. The setting is the 1930s, but there were times when I almost forgot the time period and then something would be brought up that took me back into that recent history. One of the clues to the different time was they kept stopping at what they called an auto court which we know as a motel in modern lingo, and the one item that I noticed missing the most - cell phones!
Adelaide and Jake blend perfectly together, as is common with author Amanda Quick's (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) heroes and heroines. Ms. Quick knows how to take opposites and make them perfect for each other, each bringing out the best in the other. In this case both of them have secrets, a past that haunts them, and together they find the answers to his troubles, hers, and the inexplicable "suicides" that are happening in this sleepy area. I enjoyed watching them grow together and coming to the point where they understood each other perfectly. The ending surprised me, but I shouldn't have been as Ms. Quick does so like to send her readers on intriguing twists and turns. The supporting characters in THE OTHER LADY VANISHES are intriguing and I am really hoping there will be at least one more offering from this town. There is a certain private eye and club owner I would love to read more about.
If you love a mystery, a good sweet, yet steamy, romance, and dazzling characters then THE OTHER LADY VANISHES is exactly what you are looking for.
The New York Times bestselling author of The
Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s
California--where the most dazzling of illusions can't hide
the darkest secrets...
After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake
arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over.
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.
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.
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...
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