The Gates of Evangeline
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00UG2MVFY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 148 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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An eerie but inviting debut." —Kirkus Reviews“In Hester Young's haunted Louisiana, the ghostly labyrinth of the past opens its great doors to deliver up a lush gothic thriller. The Gates of Evangeline is a darkly marvelous debut, a classic whodunnit stitched with otherworldly chills.”—Jedediah Berry, author of the Hammett-prize winning The Manual of Detection"What a delicious book! Gripping and atmospheric—with a heart-stopping twist—The Gates of Evangeline is an imaginative blend of southern gothic, family epic and spooky whodunit. Worth Star-Telegram . Trust me: you won’t just read Hester Young’s debut, you will absorb this gorgeous novel using all 'six' senses." —Jillian Medoff, bestselling author of I Couldn't Love You More and Hunger Point"Hester Young's The Gates of Evangeline is not just a riveting story about the search for a long mi
A Wonderful, Engaging Mystery Well-written and gripping, I loved The Gates of Evangeline!. Grabs your attention from the beginning!! Barbara Spadaro Definitely recommend this read! It wasn't our book clubs choice his month but should have been. Enjoyed it from beginning to end. Had me guessing the whole time.. Good story but predictable-ish. Warner Minimal "graphic" content - I ended up sharing with my adult daughter. Good story but predictable-ish.
Hester Young holds a master’s degree in English with a creative writing concentration from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and her short stories have appeared in magazines such as Hawai‘i Review. . Young lives in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, with her husband and their two children. Before turning to writing full-time, she worked as a teacher in Arizona and New Hampshire
But as she uncovers long-buried secrets of love, money, betrayal, and murder, the facts begin to implicate those she most wants to trust—and her visions reveal an evil closer than she could have imagined. A Southern Gothic mystery debut that combines literary suspense and romance with a mystical twist, THE GATES OF EVANGELINE is a story that readers of Gillian Flynn, Kate Atkinson, and Alice Sebold won't be able to put down.From the Hardcover edition.. Armed with an invitation to Evangeline, the family’s sprawling estate, Charlie heads south, where new friendships and an unlikely romance with the estate’s landscape architect—the warm and handsome Noah Palmer—begin to heal her grief-stricken heart. After a little boy in a boat appears in Charlie’s dreams, asking for her help, she finds herself entangled in a world-famous thirty-year-old missing-child case that has never cease