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Crown Publishers
October 2011
On Sale: October 4, 2011
400 pages
ISBN: 0307394999
EAN: 9780307394996
Hardcover
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Horror | Mystery
In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian
house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed
shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts.
The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their
twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild
their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch
his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double
engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however,
most of the passengers aboard Flight 1611 die on impact or
drown. The body count? Thirty-nine - a coincidence not lost
on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that
basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering
about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain
village - self-proclaimed herbalists - and their interest in
her fifth-grade daughters. Are the women mad? Or is it her
husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity
has become desperately tenuous? The result is a poignant and powerful ghost story with all
the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling
novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, an
unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters
we care about deeply. The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead.
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