by John Harwood
A brilliant new Gothic thriller from the acclaimed author of The Ghost Writer and The SeanceConfused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor, Maynard Straker, tel...
No one writes Gothic quite like John Harwood. His ability to capture the mood, atmosphere and mores of the classics is without equal, while avoiding the florid excesses that plagued the subgenre. And with The Asylum, he has produced one of the best Gothic mysteries I've read in years, filled with a ...
Read my full review:http://bit.ly/10xb5Mk My opinion: I have read several books by this author. Hands down, this is my favorite. The character development was superb and the mystery left me scratching my head. I expected the ending to go a different direction than it did, so the story definitely kep...
I won an ARC of [b:The Asylum|15814529|The Asylum|John Harwood|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348098664s/15814529.jpg|21540965] from a GR First Reads giveaway, and it came at a great time for me -- the end of the semester, when I needed some light escapist reading. It may sound odd to call [b:The Asy...
It took me three days to read this book; and it would have been an even faster read hadn't it been for such trivial things as sleeping and eating that needed to be taken care of.Seriously, "The Asylum" is a real page turner - even though this is a much overused term, I can't find a better one to des...
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