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Hon säger att hon vill vara din vän. Men du får aldrig släppa in henne. 1950: I Vermont finns en herrgård som kallas Idlewild Hall. Här drivs ett hem för oönskade flickor, och fyra av dem är vänner som delar allt med varandra: både hemligheter och rädslan för Mary Hand, damen som sägs hemsöka det gamla huset. Men en dag försvinner en av flickorna spårlöst 2014: Det har gått tjugo år sedan journalisten Fiona Sheridans syster mördades, på Idlewild Halls ägor. Men när ytterligare en kropp hittas börjar Fiona tvivla på att den påstådde mördaren, som fortfarande sitter fängslad, verkligen är skyldig. De trasiga flickorna av Simone StJames är både en deckare och en ruskig spökhistoria, som vävs ihop i Vermonts dimmiga landskap. Den har blivit framröstad till en av årets bästa thrillers enligt Goodreads läsare och passar utmärkt för Lisa Jewells och SK Tremaynes fans. Smart och underbart ryslig! Fiona Barton

Reshenie dvadtsatiletnej Karli ostavit kolledzh, perebratsja v zakholustnyj gorodok Fell na severe shtata Nju-Jork i ustroitsja nochnym administratorom v staryj motel vyzyvaet udivlenie u vsekh ee znakomykh i blizkikh. Lish odna Karli znaet ego istinnuju prichinu - ona dolzhna razgadat tajnu zagadochnogo ischeznovenija v etom motele tridtsat pjat let nazad dvadtsatiletnej Vivian - rodnoj sestry materi Karli. A v motele i sejchas chto-to neladno...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases, the new pulse-pounding standalone story about the childhood traumas that haunt each of us . . . “As creepy and unsettling as a rain-faded wreath and teddy bear found by the side of the road to mark a missing person, [it] lingers like a ghost long after it’s finished.”—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House -- Something dark has always hung over the Esmie siblings. Each one is haunted, but all in different ways. Violet dreams each night of a strange and cold woman looming over her bed, Dodie wakes in a constant state of drowning and Vale sees beaming lights and probing figures. But there’s one thing that haunts them the most . . . The disappearance of their little brother, Ben, who went missing during an innocent game of hide and seek back when they were children. It’s been eighteen years since the siblings fled their childhood home, Fell House, the one that holds all the ghosts of the past. But then Violet receives a call from the house’s caretaker. He’s too scared to keep working there. He says he saw the spirit of a young boy whispering two words . . . Come home. She, Dodie and Vale all know Ben is back – and he’s ready to lead them to answers they both want and fear. But there’s a more sinister presence waiting for them at Fell House. Something that’s connected to their visions as children. Something that wants a violent revenge. -- PRAISE FOR SIMONE ST JAMES’ WORK: “Once again, St. James has offered a gripping tale of crime tinged with the supernatural that crosses generations.” – Booklist “From its terrifying opening to its jaw-dropping conclusion, this thriller has it all–small town secrets, ominous dark deeds after midnight. You will follow this shocking road to its climatic end!” —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Still See You Everywhere “An exhilarating, haunting ride from start to finish.”—Isabel Cañas, USA Today bestselling author of Vampires of El Norte “Simone St. James is known for brilliantly mixing thriller elements with supernatural mayhem” —The New York Times Book Review