The Ridge

In this new thriller from the author of The Cypress House, a subtle supernaturalism pervades events in a remote region of Kentucky, where one man's architectural folly collides with a well-meaning woman's desire to befriend big cats, resulting in an desperate wave of harrowing behavior.

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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