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Title details for Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips - Available

Quiet Dell

A Novel

by Jayne Anne Phillips
Tandy Cronyn
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Night Watch, a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: "a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction" (Stephen King).
In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her, ultimately to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks later, Asta and her three children are dead.

Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago press, wants to understand what happened to this beautiful family, particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Determined, Emily travels to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to investigate the story herself, accompanied by a charming and unconventional photographer equally drawn to the case. These heroic characters, driven by secrets of their own, will stop at nothing to ensure Powers is convicted.

A tragedy, a love story, and a tour de force of obsession, Jayne Anne Phillips's Quiet Dell "hauntingly imagines the victims' hopes, dreams, and terror" (O, The Oprah Magazine). It is a mesmerizing and deeply moving novel from one of America's most celebrated writers.

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  • Release date

    October 15, 2013

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      • ISBN: 9781442366718
      • File size: 450604 KB
      • Duration: 15:38:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Tandy Cronyn is simply outstanding in her portrayal of this powerful and chilling story based upon the real-life murders of a number of widows, including Asta Eicher and her children, at the hands of serial killer Cornelius Pierson, who preyed on women answering lonely hearts ads in the 1930s. Cronyn expertly builds the story's tension, slowly revealing the anticipation tinged with desperation of Mrs. Eicher as she unknowingly leads her family to their inevitable and terrifying end. Cronyn is equally effective portraying the elegant Emily Thornhill, the Chicago reporter who helped bring Pierson to justice. This is a moving, tragic, complicated story well presented and well written, which gives new depth to cold terror. A.C.P. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

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