Ghosted
10 best books like Ghosted (Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall): The Miniaturist, The Long Way Home, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Night Things, The Nature of the Beast, Mephisto, The Loved One, A Great Reckoning, Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, Cut to the Chase: Forty-Five Years of Editing America's Favorite Movies
| Author | Jessie Burton |
| ISBN | 0062306812 |
Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam--a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion--a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.
"There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed...
| Author | Louise Penny |
| ISBN | 1250022061 |
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he’d only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead,"...
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
| Author | Angela Carter |
| ISBN | 0140235191 |
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals,...
| Author | Michael Talbot |
| ISBN | 0688071635 |
WELCOME TO LAKE HOUSE...
A sprawling Adirondack "great camp" with 160 rooms, each carpeted in evil and painted with human blood.
ENTER IF YOU DARE...
Explore the miles of dark, twisting hallways, reeking with the stench of death. Journey through a bizarre labyrinth into...
| Author | Louise Penny |
| ISBN | 1250022088 |
Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. But when the boy disappears, the villagers...
| Author | Klaus Mann |
| ISBN | 0140189181 |
Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann’s son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War II. In it he captures the Isherwood-like atmosphere of Nazi Germany while telling a satiric story about the rise to power of one man - a thinly veiled caricature of his own brother-in-law. The man is Hendrik...
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0141184248 |
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the...
| Author | Louise Penny |
| ISBN | 1250022134 |
Bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding novel.
When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers...
Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
| Author | Jon Ronson |
| ISBN | 1594631375 |
The New York Times–bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. Lost at Sea reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, even in the most mundane circumstances.
Ronson investigates the strange things...
Cut to the Chase: Forty-Five Years of Editing America's Favorite Movies
This groundbreaking book takes the reader behind the closed doors of the editing room where Sam O'Steen along with some of the world's top directors controlled the fate of many legendary films. Editors don't usually sit on movie sets, but Sam was there through the entire shoot and his editing tales are...
| Author | James Purdy |
| ISBN | 0872862348 |
A soldier named Garnet Montrose returns home to coastal Virginia bearing a grotesque injury which is nauseatingly repellent to anyone who sees him. He hires two young male caretakers, Quintus Pearch and Potter Daventry, who look after his disability. They also act as a go-between with Garnet's childhood...
Indecent Advances: The Hidden History of Murder and Masculinity Before Stonewall
| Author | James Polchin |
| ISBN | 1640091890 |
A skillful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines how popular culture, the media, and the psychological profession portrayed crimes against gay men in the years leading up to the Stonewall Riots.
In his skillful hybrid of true crime and cultural history, James Polchin provides...
| Author | Ruth Rendell |
| ISBN | 0345351746 |
I read this because I was in a mood for some good classic mystery novel. Unfortunately, it was neither of those things.
First of all, I should've picked something American, as I find all mid-sized English towns dreary, and can hardly ever muster any enthusiasm for books taking place in mid-sized...
