A Madness So Discreet

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780062320865
  • 06 oktober 2015
  • 376 pagina's
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Mindy Mcginnis

Mindy McGinnis is an assistant YA librarian who lives in Ohio and cans her own food. She graduated from Otterbein University magna cum laude with a BA in English Literature and Religion.

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Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery

Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television's True Detective and American Horror Story.

Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane asylum—but it is in the darkness that she finds a new lease on life. When a visiting doctor interested in criminal psychology recognizes Grace's brilliant mind beneath her rage, he recruits her as his assistant. Continuing to operate under the cloak of madness at crime scenes allows her to gather clues from bystanders who believe her less than human. Now comfortable in an ethical asylum, Grace finds friends—and hope. But gruesome nights bring Grace and the doctor into the circle of a killer who will bring her shaky sanity and the demons in her past dangerously close to the surface.

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en
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
06 oktober 2015
Aantal pagina's
376
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Nee

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Hoofdauteur
Mindy Mcginnis
Hoofduitgeverij
Katherine Tegen Books

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Product breedte
147 mm
Product hoogte
30 mm
Product lengte
208 mm
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149 mm
Verpakking hoogte
34 mm
Verpakking lengte
221 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
291 g

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9780062320865

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  • Dark, haunting, insane

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    • dark
    • haunting
    • accurate description of the period

    Mindy McGinnis previously wrote Not a Drop to Drink and it companion, in a Handful of Dust, two post apocalyptic survival stories. This book is very different from those, this is a gothic historical novel set in an insane asylum. Grace Mae is a girl from a very wealthy family in Boston, her father being a state senator, but her family isn't as nice as it seems, and she ends up inside the Boston insane asylum, where she stops using her voice because she knows no one listens to her anyway. The first part of the book describes the horrific methods in those asylums, but the story turns around when a visiting doctor discovers Grace's mind hidden beneath her madness, and takes her with him to a more ethical asylum in Ohio, where she has more freedom, and makes two very interesting friends, Nell, and Lizzie, neither of them are really crazy, and the doctor takes her to crime scenes because she is very clever and, because people think she's insane, allow her to listen to their conversations. but this becomes dangerous when a man starts killing young women. '
    This book is an exciting crime story, but it also explores the darker parts of the human mind, and the scars her awful childhood has left on Grace, and how she will deal with it when her past catches up with her.

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  • Hoewel mooi, toch teleurgesteld

    Hoewel het boek erg mooi geschreven is, heeft het mij toch teleurgesteld. Ik verwachtte een prachtig verhaal met een spannend moordmysterie en lugubere crimescenes. Het voldeed niet aan mijn verwachtingen. Ook vond ik het Engels moeilijk in te komen, maar ik lees nog niet erg lang Engelse boeken. Het is verder een mooi verhaal, zolang je er niet met te hoge verwachtingen in gaat en niet erg kritisch bent, is er niet veel op aan te merken.

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