A Brief Lunacy, Cynthia Thayer
A Brief Lunacy, Cynthia Thayer
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A Brief Lunacy

Author: Cynthia Thayer

Narrator: Various

Unabridged: 6 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/27/2005


Synopsis

With her acclaimed novel A Certain Slant of Light, Cynthia Thayer dazzled critics with her subtle grace and lyrical prose. Now this masterful storyteller brings her prodigious literary gifts to a very different kind of novel–a haunting edge-of-the-seat thriller that begins with a simple act of kindness and ends in a scene of escalating violence in a secluded Maine cabin.

The stranger arrived on a cool October evening. Jessie and Carl invited the stranded young man into their cabin, fed him supper, and let him spend the night. The next morning he repays their kindness by taking them prisoner in their own home.

Who is this man who calls himself Jonah? Why does he seem to know everything about them? What is his connection to their troubled, missing daughter, Sylvie? As Jonah’s behavior grows increasingly erratic and frightening, Jessie and Carl are trapped in a single day of brutality and shattering revelations that will test the limits of their sanity and their will to survive.

Reviews

I read this for the Genre: Suspense square for Halloween Bingo What have I done? Who is he? Does he know something? Does he know Sylvie? He’s not just a camper who’s been robbed, is he? A retired married couple living in Maine get a phone call that their schizophrenic daughter has runaway from her......more

Goodreads review by Vix

4.5 stars A dreadful book. Right from the very beginning you get a glimpse at an ageing couple living in a secluded rural lake area in a cabin but there's a underlying feeling of ominous apprehension. Something just doesn't feel right. They love each other with small familiar touches and sayings that......more