The Broken Girls
Four lonely teenage girls become friends at a boarding school in Vermont in the 1950's...In the present day, a journalist covering the restoration of the school uncovers a crime--and a haunting-- that has long been buried and has disturbing echoes of the tragedy in her own life.
Four lonely teenage girls become friends at a boarding school in Vermont in the 1950's...In the present day, a journalist covering the restoration of the school uncovers a crime--and a haunting-- that has long been buried and has disturbing echoes of the tragedy in her own life.
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Edition language: English
I'm so bored.It reads like YA. Also, I've lost which story line I am supposed to be interested in. Bugger this. I'm out. DNF @ 57%
An excellent murder mystery/ghost story centered around the ruins of a former school for unwanted girls known as Idlewild Hall. The mystery is engaging, moving between the 1950s and the present, and the ghost story has a marvelously creepy urban legend vibe.Highly recommended.
The Broken Girls is set during two timelines, one being set in the 1950s in a boarding school for troubled girls and the other one being set in 2014, where a journalist starts to look into the murder of her sister, whose body has been found 20 years prior on the grounds of the aforementioned boardin...
I loved this book - St. James set this tale in the perfect location, and it is both mysterious and horrifying. It is probably something I would imagine would one day become a film because it is up there with "Kiss the Girls," as far as contemporary suspense goes. The story does flash a bit back to o...
I received a copy from Netgalley. I love boarding school mysteries. Especially ones where there is a mix of past and present. The mystery of this one was what caught my interest in the synopsis. A journalist who can’t get over the murder of her older sister at an exclusive boarding school is still...
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