Girls of Brackenhill, Kate Moretti
Girls of Brackenhill, Kate Moretti
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Girls of Brackenhill
A Thriller

Author: Kate Moretti

Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Unabridged: 10 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2020

Synopsis

Haunted by her sister’s disappearance, a troubled woman becomes consumed by past secrets in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Year.When Hannah Maloney’s aunt dies in a car accident, she returns to her family’s castle in the Catskills and the epicenter of a childhood trauma: her sister’s unsolved disappearance. It’s been seventeen years, and though desperate to start a new life with her fiancé, Hannah is compelled to question the events of her last summer at Brackenhill.When a human bone is found near the estate, Hannah is convinced it belongs to her long-lost sister. She launches her own investigation into that magical summer that ended in a nightmare. As strange happenings plague the castle, Hannah uncovers disturbing details about the past and startling realizations about her own repressed childhood memories.Fueled by guilt over her sister’s vanishing, Hannah becomes obsessed with discovering what happened all those years ago, but by the time Hannah realizes some mysteries are best left buried, it’s too late to stop digging. Overwhelmed by what she has exposed, Hannah isn’t sure her new life can survive her old ghosts.

About Kate Moretti

Kate Moretti is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and a novella. Her first novel, Thought I Knew You, was a New York Times bestseller. The Vanishing Year was a nominee in the Goodreads Choice Awards mystery/thriller category for 2016 and was called “chillingly satisfying” (Publishers Weekly) with “superb” closing twists (New York Times Book Review).Moretti has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for twenty years as a scientist and enjoys traveling and cooking. She lives in Pennsylvania in an old farmhouse with her husband, two children, and no known ghosts. Her lifelong dream is to find a secret passageway.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on July 30, 2020

Creepy Castle and Missing Girls! 3.5 stars Girls of Brackenhill is a psychological thriller about a mysterious gothic castle in the Catskills where girls go missing without a trace. 13 years ago, Hannah’s sister Julia went missing from Brackehill Castle. Hannah returns to the creepy castle where stra......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on September 21, 2020

As a big fan of Kate Moretti’s previous works, I was truly excited to get lost in her new claustrophobic, facing your past and dirty family secrets, traumatic experiences story. It begins fast, a prologue from past: a girl’s killing and we turn back to present time to meet Hannah getting a phone c......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on October 11, 2020

Kindle First Pick for October 2020! I've read quite a bit of Moretti's backlist, and I highly respect her work as an author. Brackenhill has a tried and true plot that will be familiar to most seasoned readers of psychological suspense, and I think the strength of this story is more in its encompassi......more

Goodreads review by Javier on December 05, 2020

When a few days ago my friend Kim told me she was starting this book I decided to join in for a buddy read as "Girls of Brackenhill" seemed to be the perfect read for Halloween. Dead and missing girls, a suspicious car accident, family secrets and a spooky castle, it had all the ingredients to be a......more

Goodreads review by Kristy on October 26, 2020

Spooky, eerie & captivating thriller As a kid, Hannah spent several summers at Brackenhill, her aunt and uncle's beautiful mansion in the Catskills. Joined by her older sister, Julia, they enjoyed a peaceful time away from their troubled mother and her boyfriend. But that final summer, Hannah made th......more

Quotes

“[A] riveting thriller…fans of gothic mysteries with a touch of the supernatural will be richly rewarded.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Seventeen years after her sister vanished from a family estate in the Catskills, Hannah Malone is pulled back to the place by another calamity and then finds herself buried neck-deep in crimes past and present…Link by link, Moretti hypnotically reveals ‘a tragic, violent daisy chain.’” —Kirkus Reviews“The Girls of Brackenhill is a fast-paced, creepy-in-a-good-way ghost story that will leave you on the edge of your seat wondering what happened at the castle on the hill seventeen years ago. Moretti weaves the past and present together in a delicious way, making you think you’ve figured this puzzle out when you haven’t, not by a long shot. A thoroughly enjoyable thriller about first love, loss, and the bond between sisters, I devoured this and you will too.” —Catherine McKenzie, #1 Amazon bestselling author of I’ll Never Tell and You Can’t Catch Me

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