The Haunting of Maddy Clare, Simone St. James
The Haunting of Maddy Clare, Simone St. James
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The Haunting of Maddy Clare

Author: Simone St. James

Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/05/2023


Synopsis

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel.

1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis—rich, handsome, and scarred by World War I—has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide.

Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to confront an angry ghost—real or imagined—on her own. She’s even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair’s associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach.

Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy’s ghost is no hoax—she’s real, she’s angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Now, Sarah and Matthew must discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance—before she destroys them all....

About The Author

Simone St. James is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Sun Down Motel, The Broken Girls, Lost Among the Living, and The Haunting of Maddy Clare. She wrote her first ghost story, about a haunted library, when she was in high school, and spent twenty years behind the scenes in the television business before leaving to write full-time.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra on July 22, 2018

A hauntingly good book that delivers with chills, creepy scenes and mystery! Alistair Gellis, a ghost hunter, has hired Sarah Piper from a temporary agency. Initially Sarah is concerned but finds she is also intrigued by the sense of adventure and the handsome man who proposes an eerie job descriptio......more

Goodreads review by Jayme on October 16, 2022

3.75 ⭐️ for this “spooky season” read! It’s 1920’s England, so this ghost story has the feeling of a more “traditional” haunting… Sarah Piper is an orphan of limited means, so when the Temp Agency she is employed by, asks her to accept an assignment assisting Alistair Gellis, a ghost hunter, she real......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on November 06, 2016

Twenty-five-year-old Sarah Piper gets a call from the temporary agency that she works for. A male writer is requesting an assistant and he is asking for a female. Sarah is to meet him at a coffee house in Soho, London. Sarah goes to the coffee house and meets Alistair Gellis, a young, handsome man.......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on March 24, 2024

This is my second Simone St. James book. I intend to read at least 5 of her books back-to-back and I started with The Broken Girls (which I loved). I enjoyed the intricacies of the plotting in The Broken Girls more than Maddy Clare, but the characters were more enjoyable and developed in this book. I......more


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Praise for The Haunting of Maddy Clare
Winner of two RITA Awards from the Romance Writers of America and the Arthur Ellis Award from Crime Writers of Canada

“St. James has written an atmospheric and resoundingly old-fashioned ghost story that pulls you in from the first pages.”—Historical Novels Review

“A chilling start...fans of the modern Gothic novel will enjoy filling up a few creepy hours.”—Kirkus Reviews

“With a fresh, unique voice, Simone St. James creates an atmosphere that is deliciously creepy and a heroine you won't soon forget. The Haunting of Maddy Clare promises spooky thrills and it delivers. Read it, enjoy it—but don't turn out the lights!”—Deanna Raybourn, author of the Julia Grey series and of The Dark Enquiry

“Fast, fun, and gripping. Kept me up into the wee hours.”—C. S. Harris, author of the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series

More Praise for Simone St. James

“Deliciously creepy. A chilling blend of mystery and ghost story that will thrill fans of both.”—Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Lock Every Door

“Simone St. James knows that true terror, as she effectively illustrates in The Sun Down Motel, goes beyond things that go bump in the night....St. James deftly melds an engrossing mystery with a tense supernatural thriller....keeps the tension high with myriad surprising twists.”—Associated Press

“This creepy supernatural thriller will send shivers down your spine.”—GoodHousekeeping.com
 
“[A] truly nightmarish trip back and forth in time and into the supernatural...guaranteed to keep readers rapt...What a story!”—Booklist (starred review)
 
“This novel is a creepy delight.”—The New York Post