INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Quick conjures up a celluloid world that will be catnip to fans of that era evoking the sensation it was plucked straight from the Warner Bros. vault.”–Entertainment WeeklyThe New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s California–where the most dazzling of illusions can’t hide the darkest secrets…After … illusions can’t hide the darkest secrets…
After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over.
Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover.
In Burning Cove, no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers, gangsters, and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda. Adelaide and Jake know better than to fall for her kind of con. But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed, they’ll be drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection.
Neither Adelaide or Jake can predict that in the shadowy underground they’ll find connections to the woman Adelaide used to be–and uncover the specter of a killer who’s been real all along…
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3.5 stars
This was a very easy read with a plot that was just complicated enough to lose me and be surprised at the ending.
I had a few issues that dropped the rating for me. The characters were flat and the “romance” was almost non existent. I didn’t feel the build up between the two leads and it just felt flat.
The other major issues i had was the time period this was based in. It doesn’t fit. The speech was wrong at times, the actions of the characters didn’t pertain the the 30’s and it just left me a little confused.
I still like it, but it was neither here nor there for me. The other books in the series will go on my TBR list but they won’t be ushered to the front.
This was a rather dark book.
The Other Lady Vanishes is a rather enjoyable historical mystery set in 1930s California and the world of Hollywood’s rich and famous. This book is the second book in Burning Cove series, which I didn’t know when I started reading it, but it can be read as a stand-alone. I didn’t feel lost for not reading the first book.
I loved the setting and the time period, I liked the characters a lot, and the mystery was quite interesting, if a little predictable. This book has a lot going for it: a dazzling setting with a story partially set in an insane asylum, a number of nefarious villains, and a swoony romance. I would recommend The Other Lady Vanishes to any historical mystery or fiction lover.
Delightful noir mystery set in the 1930s.
Admirable main character. She doesn’t rely on a Princess Charming to save herself. The book opens with her daring escape from the insane asylum. Later she finds a cohort to team up with.
Lots of “bad guys”. Not sorry to see them get what they deserve.
Romance, too.
I really liked “The Duchess”
Too much money. Her new series is not that gripping.