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Alice Blanchard

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Alice Blanchard is an award-winning author of thrillers, mysteries and suspense novels. Her bestseller, “The Breathtaker,” was an official selection of NBC’s Today Show Book Club, her debut mystery, “Darkness Peering,” was a New York Times’ Notable Book, and "Trace of Evil” was an Amazon Best Mystery and an Indie Next Pick.

Her story collection won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Short Fiction, and she has received a PEN Fiction Award, a New Letters Literary Award and a Centrum award, among other honors. Her books have been published in 16 countries.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 11,741 ratings · 1,954 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Breath After Drowning 3.80 avg rating — 2,611 ratings — published 2018 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trace of Evil (Natalie Lockhart, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 2,598 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkness Peering 3.87 avg rating — 1,688 ratings — published 1999 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Breathtaker 3.84 avg rating — 1,580 ratings — published 2003 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wicked Hour (Natalie Lockhart, #2) 3.73 avg rating — 1,204 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witching Tree (Natalie Lockhart, #3) 3.63 avg rating — 908 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow Girls (Natalie Lockhart, #4) 3.87 avg rating — 642 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LIFE SENTENCES 3.49 avg rating — 389 ratings — published 2004 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's Me Violet 4.49 avg rating — 67 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HOUSE OF DEAD THINGS 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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“Women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves... we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.”
― Gillian Flynn

tags: writing

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