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The Ghost Orchid
  • Published: 1 June 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099468134
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $39.99
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The Ghost Orchid

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The chilling new gothic thriller from the author of The Lake of Dead Languages

Bosco: once a beautiful, stately home, now a tranquil artists' retreat. Ellis Brooks has come here for the peace and quiet - and for the opportunity to write a novel inspired by the scandalous events that took place in the mansion's early days, a scandal involving a medium of dubious repute, three dead children and a séance that ended in tragedy.

As Ellis delves into Bosco's sinister history, she starts to uncover unnerving connections between the living and the dead. The past is forcing its way into the present, and - as the members of the artistic community come under greater and greater threat - Ellis must untangle the truth caught up in the house's murky past, before it ensnares them all...
  • Published: 1 June 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099468134
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Carol Goodman

Carol Goodman is the author of The Lake of Dead Languages, The Seduction of Water, The Drowning Tree, The Ghost Orchid, The Sonnet Lover, and The Night Villa. The Seduction of Water won the Hammett Prize, and others of her novels have been nominated for the Dublin/IMPAC Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages. She lives in New York state with her family.
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Praise for The Ghost Orchid

Embrace your inner Goth with this atmospheric shiver fest

Elle

The strength of The Lake of Dead Languages is a silken prose that lures the reader into Goodman's . . . story of murder, suicide . . . revenge, and madness

Washington Post Book World

Like Donna Tartt's A Secret History or a good film noir . . . [The Lake of Dead Languages] keep readers hooked.

People

A highly charged novel of suspense that will have you riveted to your chair

Woman & Home