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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I adore this author! She weaves her mysteries with expert perfection!!!!!
Burning Cove series so far is very good and I enjoy reading them, the era and Hollywood makes it so different from Amanda Quick usual books.
I love all her books. Have been reading them for years.
I love Amanda Quick books. They always peak my interest and this book was a page-turner. I really Ike the characters in this series. Looking forward to reading more about them in the next book.
I found the main characters easy to identify with, which always helps, and some of them are carried over from a previous book, so it is nice to see everything resolved.
I love her series in this time period. The characters are related able and fun. She is one of my favorite authors.
Jayne Anne Krentz writing as Amanda Quick places this fast moving romance/suspense novel in the California of the 1930’s. As always, the characters are sharply drawn, the suspense is well done, and of course there is an HEA. Very enjoyable.
I’m pretty sure Quick could write about boiling water and I would be amazed at every word. She is that good.
Good read.
Well-plotted with danger, intrigue, and humor. Many possible suspects and many personal secrets move the plot along. Each character slowly gives up their secrets to bring the novel to its climax. Well done. Interesting read.
This book set me firmly in the 1930’s. I love authors who do their homework and research the period. Amanda Quick is right on point. The characters are everything a romantic couple should be. A fine read.
I have been reading the author’s books for decades and can not figure out how she continually comes up with such different and interesting stories. This is the second book in the Burning Cove series, but strangely the characters from the previous do not make even a guest appearance, which means that it can easily be read as a stand alone.
The story takes place in the 1930. Adelaide managed to escape from a “private sanitarium” and made her way to Burning Cove, California, a place where she had spent summers with her parents when she was growing up. Her parents had recently been killed in a fire in their laboratory and she doesn’t remember how she ended up in the sanitarium, but know that illegal experiments were being performed on patients and she barely got out alive. She is hiding in Burning Cove, working in a tea shop as a waitress and tea sommelier. Another new comer to the seaside resort is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town to “calm his nerves”. Everyone in town has their secrets. who can be trusted? When her cottage is broken into, Jake who is renting the cottage next door, vows not to leave Adelaide alone until the culprit is caught. A convoluted mystery and steamy romance in one.
Great read. Historically accurate. Page turner. Some characters mentioned not fully developed and left hanging.
I thought these books was free are they ?
I do not have money to buy them
Take me back to the 1930’s… that is exactly what Amanda Quick has done. There is a drug called Daydream being made that causes hallucinations. Patient B, Adelaide, is forced to take these drugs when her husband(?) forces her into a sanitarium for the mentally ill so that he can take control of her inheritance. The amazing part? Adelaide escapes that sanitarium. She escapes and makes a life for herself in the small town of Burning Cove, California and meets Jake Truett.
I love the town of Burning Cove. I questioned every person who lived or visited the town. It seemed everyone had a secret. They had a reason to be in Burning Cove besides just visiting for the fun of it. It was interesting to try to guess what was going to happen, who was going to do what next, and who was guilty of what. Everyone is guilty of something, just some things are worse than others.
The characters in this book are great. There are so many quirks, so many background stories, and so interesting. I cheered for some, booed others, while trying to guess who is who within the story. I wanted to figure out how they fit together, how their stories would intertwine, and how it would all end.
Amanda Quick is a talented author. She is now on my must-read list and I am excited to read more from her. I definitely recommend picking up The Other Lady Vanishes and falling into the exciting world of Adelaide Black
Great series and wonderful read.
I always love Amanda Quick. She never lets me down!
Loved it!
I love anything by Amanda Quick.
I don’t care what she writes under,they’re all good!!