The stranger house

Description

For more than five hundred years weary travelers have been coming to the Stranger House&#8212an out-of-the-way inn in the tiny village of Illthwaite in Cumbria, England. Now two very different visitors have arrived here onthe same dank and dreary autumn afternoon, each one driven by curiosity . . . and perilous purpose.Australian math wizard Samantha "Sam" Flood is here searching for answers to a disturbing family mystery. Miguel Madero, former novice priest-turned-historical scholar, is exploring the links between an ancestor's bizarre disappearance and the people of Illthwaite. But Sam and Mig are not welcome in this town of secrets and silences. And when their personal quests become strangely intertwined, two determined seekers will find themselves drawn ever deeper into a fetid morass of deceit, mystery, and violence as they race to uncover the shocking truth about who they really are.

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• Fiction

Other Editions

• The stranger houseHarperCollins Publishers2005-01-01
• The stranger houseHarperCollins Publishers2005-01-01
• The stranger houseHarperCollins2005-01-01
• The Stranger HouseeBookHarperCollins2007-01-01
• The Stranger HouseeBookHarperCollins2009-01-01
• STRANGER HOUSE.HARPERCOLLINS