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Passing Through Veils

John Harrison

Publisher: WordFire Press

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Summary

A fusion of Shirley Jackson and Gillian Flynn, Passing Through Veils is a gripping psychological thriller about Kathryn Fields who moves into a run-down Georgetown, D.C. townhouse in hopes that restoring it will be a metaphor for her own rehabilitation from the recent nervous breakdown that derailed her promising career.    But when she discovers a forgotten vanity behind a false wall in her bedroom and the secrets hidden there, the veil between the real and the surreal is abruptly pierced, and the ghost of a beautiful woman who was murdered in this very townhouse escapes to seek revenge.    Is this simply a fantasy of Katherine’s damaged psyche?   Or have her own demons finally escaped to torment her?
Available since: 08/15/2023.
Print length: 237 pages.

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