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The Carriage House

May 2006 reissue (2003, 2001) | MIRA Books Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1-55166-972-4 | ISBN: 1-55166-972-2

Synopsis

Fun and a little hard work. That’s all Tess Haviland had in mind when Ike Grantham paid her for her graphic design work with the run-down, 19th-century carriage house on Boston’s North Shore.

Then Ike disappeared and now Tess finds herself with much more than a simple weekend project to get her out of the city. It’s not just the rumors that the carriage house is haunted—it’s the neighbors: six-year-old Dolly Thorne, her reclusive babysitter, Harley Beckett…and especially Dolly’s father, Andrew Thorne, who has his own ideas about why Tess has turned up next door.

But when Tess discovers a human skeleton in her dirt cellar, she begins to ask questions about the history of the carriage house, the untimely death of Andrew’s wife…and Ike’s disappearance. Questions a desperate killer wants to silence before the truth reveals that someone got away with murder.

"Brimming with Neggers's usual flair for creating likeable, believable characters...she delivers a colorful, well-spun story..."—Publishers Weekly