The Mask Collectors, Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer
The Mask Collectors, Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer
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The Mask Collectors

Author: Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer

Narrator: Vivienne Leheny

Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/01/2019

Synopsis

A murder investigation becomes a dance with the devil in a breakthrough novel of illusion, conspiracy, and belief.The alumni of an international boarding school have gathered at a campground in rural New Jersey when a scream breaks the silence of the woods. Classmates are shocked to find journalist Angie Osborne suddenly dead. The medical examiner’s report isn’t what anyone expects. Oddly, the death scene reminds anthropologist Duncan McCloud of a thovile, a Sri Lankan ritual he’s spent years studying.When Duncan’s new employer, a pharmaceutical giant, sends him overseas under shadowy pretenses, and his wife, Dr. Grace McCloud, starts to receive anonymous warnings to doubt everyone and everything, the threads of a sweeping conspiracy begin to unravel. Risking more than their own lives, Duncan and Grace embark on a treacherous journey through occult ceremonies and their own hidden pasts to discover a secret worth killing for.In taut, precise language, Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer’s debut novel The Mask Collectors tells a story about deception, the power of belief, and what is left unspoken between husbands and wives.

About Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer

Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer was born in Sri Lanka and lived in India, Thailand, Canada, and Australia before settling in the United States. She is the 2018 winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, and the 2004 winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and have appeared in many literary journals. This is her first novel. She is a psychology professor in New York and lives in New Jersey with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by JoyReaderGirl1 on May 07, 2019

Misleading Title This is a weird medical mystery. It is NOT a suspenseful thriller about strange dark ritual ceremonies using masks, exorcism of demons and “spirits,” although it refers to them. In addition, the intriguing masks 🎭 are only hanging on an office wall in the USA and are clues that appe......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on May 06, 2019

This was my choice for the Amazon Prime First Reads for May 2019. This is an oddly complicated story that moves between the USA and Sri Lanka, kicking off with the reunion of a group of people who studied together at the international school in Kandy. When one of them dies, Grace and her husband Dun......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on July 07, 2019

Interesting concept about placebo drugs and a shady drug company but the core mystery lost focus with side plots and unnecessary characters. Why does Grace, the wife, study the ovaries of flies? We hear about her fly dissections numerous times throughout the book and the author creepily mentions “sh......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on June 17, 2019

Thank you, Netgalley, for providing me with a copy of this book! 3 stars Honestly, I think I’m being a little generous with giving this book a three-star review, considering I marked it as DNF at 24% completed. I had such high expectations for this book specifically when I found out I had b......more

Goodreads review by Nadishka on August 17, 2020

I chose to read this because I live in Sri Lanka and this is the first book I have seen on Amazon that refers to the thovil. I was intrigued. The book is subtitled "A Novel" rather than a murder mystery, but I thought the mystery element was not strong enough. It was obvious from the beginning where......more

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