"... phone, a sheen of cool sweat on my skin. I picked up the phone from my
nightstand. “Hello?” “Is this Carly Kirk?” a woman asked. I frowned, still in a fog. “
Yes.” “This is Marnie Clark returning your call.” Marnie Clark, formerly Marnie
Mahoney ..."
"Music. Someone was playing a song, back out past the main building, in the
direction of the field. She started toward it. She couldn't ... Who the hell was at
Idlewild, playing music at this hour? Some teenager with an MP3 player? She
started to ..."
"We met with Dottie, Martin, and Cora for supper at the Savoy, where Dottie was
staying. Dottie was fully recovered from her injury, sprightly and as tireless as
before, wearing her usual severe suit, but I was shocked to see that she'd cut her
..."
"None of the patients, not even wandering Tom Hodgkins, hadgone anywhere
near that lonely door. I opened my mouthto speak again,butArchie swiveled
toward me now.Thesullen mood wasgone. “Sometimes,” he said, “when I'm out
here, ..."
"Simone St. James ... I made my painstaking way past Bristol as the familiar
countryside vanished, stopping every hour to recheck my way. This was nothing
like sitting back in a train compartment, waiting to get off at your destination. In
adverts ..."
The Sun Down Motel by SimoneSt. James 547 Pages, Published 2020 by Wheeler Publishing Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4328-7842-9, ISBN: 1-4328-7842-5
"Soon, Carly is mirroring her aunt's life, working as the night clerk at the motel, which hasn't changed since 1982. The guest book is still handwritten, the rooms still have actual keys, and a haunting presence still lingers."
"I was swept away by this atmospheric and truly spine-chilling page-turner, a
riveting tale of dark suspense. ... If you love a good ghost story, you will be
entranced.” —Mary Sharratt, author of Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von
Bingen and Daughters of the Witching Hill 'Vivid, eerie, and atmospheric. St.
James's latest will simultaneously tug at your heartstrings and send chills down
your spine. Absolutely riveting.” —Anna L ..."
"Now he was talkingto Mr.Jarvis as ifhe'd heard someone mentionata cocktail
somewhere in a party that Maddy Clare was not buriedinher coffin but shallow
grave inthe ... Or justtry to get Mrs. Clare toagree todig thatcoffin up, why don't you
?"
Ghost 19 by SimoneSt. James 106 Pages, Published 2023 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-593-54770-0, ISBN: 0-593-54770-5
"A woman moves to a town where she becomes obsessed with watching the lives of her neighbors while stuck in a house that refuses to let her leave in this first ever short story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold ..."