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The Vanishing Hour: A Thriller
by Seraphina Nova Glass
Paperback : 304 pages
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From the Edgar Award–nominated author of On a Quiet Street comes a shocking thriller about ...
Introduction
"Glass weaves a taut web of suspicion, murder and revenge in this chilling tale."—Liv Constantine, internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish, on Someone's Listening
From the Edgar Award–nominated author of On a Quiet Street comes a shocking thriller about secrets…and the lengths some people will go to keep them.
Grace Holloway keeps to herself. Since narrowly escaping death at the hands of the man who kidnapped her, she’s thrown herself into the small inn she runs in Rock Harbor, Maine. It’s quiet, quaint and, in the off-season, completely isolated—the perfect place for Grace to keep her own secrets.
But Grace isn’t the only one with something to hide, and Rock Harbor isn’t just a sleepy vacation town. Someone is taking young women—girls who look an awful lot like Grace did when she was kidnapped so many years ago.
When a surge of disappearances brings the investigation to her door, Grace finds herself unwillingly at the center of it all and doing everything she can to keep her distance. Because Grace knows something…something that could change everything. And when the truth comes to light, getting justice for the vanished might be more than Grace can handle alone…
Other thrillers from Seraphina to keep you up all night:
On a Quiet Street
Such a Good Wife
Someone’s Listening
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Chapter OneA fist-sized lump of sour meat sits in a plastic bowl on the second to top stair. It must be midday because that’s when, for a short space of time, thin fingers of light steal through the slits around the root cellar door and cut through the darkness like razor thin laser beams. I open my eyes to take in the light while it’s here. I can make out the shape of mops and a cleaning bucket in the corner, some old paint cans on a rotted wooden shelf, the bowl on the stairs. ...
Discussion Questions
Questions from the publisher:The story is told in multiple POV’s and in both first and third person. Why do you think the author decided to do this? Did it add or take away from the tension?
The author uses humor and writes eccentric characters like Vinny and Brady. How do you feel about the use of small bits of comic relief in a thriller?
Which of the three main characters did you connect with the most and why? Did you ever suspect any of them?
Who was your main suspect at the beginning? Who did you end up suspecting along the way?
How did the unknown POV’s revealed identity affect your reading of the book?
The three main characters have very different motivations. Do you think their actions at the end of the book were justified?
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