John Harwood, Author . Harcourt $25 (369p) ISBN 978-0-15-101074-5
Sly nods to spooky literary spinsters—Henry James's Miss Jessel and Dickens's Miss Havisham—set the tone for this confident debut, a gothic suspense novel with a metatextual spin. Gerard Freeman grows up on the windswept southern
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John Harwood, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $25 (328p) ISBN 978-0-15-101203-9
Set in Victorian England, Harwood's spellbinding second novel (after The Ghost Writer)
pays homage to such 19th-century suspense masters as Wilkie Collins and Sheridan LeFanu. When orphaned gentlewoman Constance Langton inherits Wraxford Hall,
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John Harwood. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-544-00347-7
As he did in The Ghost Writer and The Séance, Australian author Harwood evokes Charles Palliser and Louis Bayard in his engrossing third stand-alone Victorian thriller. In the first sentence, Georgina Ferrars declares, “I woke, as it seemed, from a...
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John Harwood, read by Rosalyn Landor. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 10.25 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4829-1108-4
Rosalyn Landor proves a fine choice to narrate this Gothic tale of mystery, mistaken identity, and madness. Georgina Ferrars awakens to find herself in a private asylum called Tregannon House. With no memory of the past several days, Georgina learns
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