The Love Talker
Published on 18. August 2023
368 pages
978-0-06-184389-1 (ISBN)
Description
Chilling surprises await a grad student when she visits her family's secluded estate in this classic gothic mystery by a
New York Times-bestselling author.
Laurie has finally returned to Idlewood, the beloved family home deep in the Maryland woods where she found comfort and peace as a lonely young girl. But things are very different now. There is no peace in Idlewood. The haunting sound of a distant piping breaks the stillness of a snowy winter's evening. Seemingly random events have begun to take on a sinister shape. And dotty old Great Aunt Lizzie is convinced that there are fairies about-and she has photographs to prove it. For Laurie, one fact is becoming disturbingly clear: there is definitely somethingout there in the woods-something fiendishly, cunningly, malevolently human-and the lives of her aging loved ones, as well as Laurie's own, are suddenly at serious risk.
Praise for Elizabeth Peters
"No one is better at juggling torches while dancing on a high wire than Elizabeth Peters." - Chicago Tribune
"[Peters] keeps the reader coming back for more." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Elizabeth Peters is nothing less than a certified American treasure." - Jackson Clarion-Ledger
Laurie has finally returned to Idlewood, the beloved family home deep in the Maryland woods where she found comfort and peace as a lonely young girl. But things are very different now. There is no peace in Idlewood. The haunting sound of a distant piping breaks the stillness of a snowy winter's evening. Seemingly random events have begun to take on a sinister shape. And dotty old Great Aunt Lizzie is convinced that there are fairies about-and she has photographs to prove it. For Laurie, one fact is becoming disturbingly clear: there is definitely somethingout there in the woods-something fiendishly, cunningly, malevolently human-and the lives of her aging loved ones, as well as Laurie's own, are suddenly at serious risk.
Praise for Elizabeth Peters
"No one is better at juggling torches while dancing on a high wire than Elizabeth Peters." - Chicago Tribune
"[Peters] keeps the reader coming back for more." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Elizabeth Peters is nothing less than a certified American treasure." - Jackson Clarion-Ledger
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Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.
