A spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life crime by a con
man who preyed on widows: "a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction,
Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year" (Stephen
King)--"think "In Cold Blood" meets "The Lovely Bones--"but sexy"
("People").
In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is
desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She
begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man
named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her,
ultimately to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks
later, Asta and her three children are dead.
Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago
press, wants to understand what happened to this beautiful family,
particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl
with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Determined, Emily
travels to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to
investigate the story herself, accompanied by a charming and
unconventional photographer equally drawn to the case. These heroic
characters, driven by secrets of their own, will stop at nothing to
ensure Powers is convicted.
A tragedy, a love story, and a tour de force of obsession, Jayne
Anne Phillips's "Quiet Dell" "hauntingly imagines the victims'
hopes, dreams, and terror" ("O, The Oprah Magazine"). It is a
mesmerizing and deeply moving novel from one of America's most
celebrated writers.
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