Thomas & Mercer
Vanishing Daughters: A Thriller
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A haunted woman stalked by a serial killer confronts the horrors of fairy tales and the nightmares of real life in a breathtaking novel of psychological suspense by a Bram Stoker Award-winning author.
It started the night journalist Briar Thorne's mother died in their rambling old mansion on Chicago's South Side.
The nightmares of a woman in white pleading to come home, music switched on in locked rooms, and the panicked fear of being swallowed by the dark...Bri has almost convinced herself that these stirrings of dread are simply manifestations of grief and not the beyond-world of ghostly impossibilities her mother believed in. And more tangible terrors still lurk outside the decaying Victorian greystone.
A serial killer has claimed the lives of fifty-one women in the Chicago area. When Bri starts researching the murders, she meets a stranger who tells her there's more to her sleepless nights than bad dreams--they hold the key to putting ghosts to rest and stopping a killer. But the killer has caught on and is closing in, and if Bri doesn't answer the call of the dead soon, she'll be walking among them.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9781662513930
EAN:
9781662513930
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
336
Authors:
Cynthia Pelayo
Publisher:
Thomas & Mercer
Published Date: 2025-11-03
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Kept repeating the same things over and over. Horribly slow read. I kept thinking it would get better so I continued reading.
Terrible, horrific writing. And Boring!
Vanishing Daughters has a solid plot idea but lacks a solid execution. The idea of a long line of daughters dodging an axe for centuries is so intriguing but most of this novel is a rambling narrative of whether or not Briar is just crazy or grief stricken at the loss of her mom. What saves the book is the inner monologues of the killer and how he's "related" to H.H. Holmes. His parts are absolutely fascinating. It's an odd novel with a ton of potential.
Well, this was certainly an interesting spin on Sleeping Beauty. However, I think it could've been so much better had the pace been a bit faster, and certain parts had been more condensed.
Love that it's a place I'm familiar with for a change. It's got a ghost, a serial killer, and is Briar being stalked?
