Лучшие книги Симоны Сент-Джеймс

Айдлуайлд-холл всегда был мрачным местом. В 1950-е в нем находилась школа-интернат для проблемных девчонок-смутьянок, незаконнорожденных, с отклонениями в развитии. Поговаривали, что в нем живет привидение, и местные жители предпочитали обходить его стороной. Интернат закрыли после таинственного исчезновения воспитанницы, одной из четырех близких подруг. Спустя почти полвека недалеко от заброшенного здания нашли тело девушки. В ее убийстве был обвинен и впоследствии осужден парень, с которым она встречалась. Еще через двадцать лет страшная находка во время работ по реконструкции Айдлуайлд-холла связывает эти два трагических случая и ведет к…

1982 год. Фелл, штат Нью-Йорк. Стремясь накопить на поездку в Нью-Йорк и попытку поступить в актёрскую школу, двадцатилетняя Вивиан устраивается на работу ночным администратором в захудалый мотель «Вечерняя заря». И вскоре замечает, что здесь происходят странные, загадочные вещи. Вив пытается разобраться и однажды без следа исчезает. 2017 год. Двадцатилетней Карли не даёт покоя история её тети, маминой сестры, бесследно исчезнувшей при невыясненных обстоятельствах тридцать пять лет назад. Вивиан тогда тоже было двадцать, она пропала в городке Фелл на севере штата Нью-Йорк, в мотеле «Вечерняя заря», где работала ночным…

В 1977 году городок Клэр-Лейк в штате Орегон обсуждает загадочные убийства, совершенные таинственной Леди Киллер: двое мужчин застрелены в разное время из одного пистолета. Причины неясны, оба оставили предсмертные записки странного содержания. Подозреваемой сразу становится двадцатитрехлетняя Бет Грир, богатая и эксцентричная, — ее видели убегающей с места преступления. Но присяжные оправдывают Бет, и с тех пор она ведет уединенную жизнь в своем мрачном большом доме на берегу океана. 2017 год. Двадцатидевятилетняя, недавно разведенная Шей Коллинз работает в регистратуре клиники, а все свободное время посвящает своему сайту, где пишет о…

In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and tormenting dreams. But something more is going on at Portis House—its plaster is crumbling, its plumbing makes eerie noises, and strange breaths of cold waft through the empty rooms. It’s known that the former occupants left abruptly, but where did they go? And why do the patients all seem to…

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel.

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases . July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them. When the hitchhiker dies at the local hospital, April…

From the acclaimed author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare —and “a talent to watch” (Anne Stuart, New York Times bestselling author of Shameless)—a spellbinding ghost story set in 1920s England. After her uncle Toby, a renowned ghost hunter, is killed in a fall off a cliff, Oxford student Jillian Leigh must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately, unsettling incidents - a book left in a cold stove, a gate swinging open on its own - escalate into terrifying events that convince Jillian an angry spirit is trying to enter the house and is haunting the woods around Blood Moon Bay. If Toby…

England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family's estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her husband's origins...and the revelation of a mysterious death in the Forsyths' past is just the beginning... All is not well at Wych Elm House. Dottie's husband is distant, and her son was grievously injured in the war. Footsteps follow Jo down empty halls, and items in her bedroom are eerily rearranged. The locals say the family is…

A woman moves to a town where she becomes obsessed with watching the lives of her neighbors while stuck in a house that refuses to let her leave in this first ever short story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases.

Is there something wrong with Ginette Cox? It’s what everyone seems to think. When a doctor suggests that what she might need is less excitement, she packs up and moves from New York City to a house in suburban NY: 19 Howard Ave.

The town offers Ginette little in the way of entertainment in 1959, but at least she has interesting neighbors. Whether it’s the little girl with her doll or the couple and their mother-in-law, Ginette watches them from her window and makes up names and stories for them.

But it’s not all peaceful in suburbia. Ginette finds it hard to sleep in her new house. There are strange and scary noises coming from the basement, and she is trapped, either by a ghost or her own madness.

But when Ginette starts to think a murder has taken place and a mysterious man starts making terrifying appearances outside her window, it’s clear she must deal with whatever isn’t allowing her to escape this house…

The award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare and Silence for the Dead, presents another mesmerizing gothic story of intrigue...

London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter made her fortune helping the bereaved contact loved ones killed during the Great War. Now she's been murdered at one of her own séances, after leaving a message requesting the help of her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter.

Ellie doesn't contact the dead—at least, not anymore. She specializes in miraculously finding lost items. Still, she can't refuse the final request of the only other true psychic she has known. Now Ellie must delve into Gloria's secrets and plunge back into the world of hucksters, lowlifes, and fakes. Worse, she cannot shake the attentions of handsome James Hawley, a damaged war veteran who has dedicated himself to debunking psychics.

As Ellie and James uncover the sinister mysteries of Gloria's life and death, Ellie is tormented by nightmarish visions that herald the grisly murders of those in Gloria's circle. And as Ellie’s uneasy partnership with James turns dangerously intimate, an insidious evil force begins to undermine their quest for clues, a force determined to bury the truth, and whoever seeks to expose it...