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Blackthorn
A crumbling old resort. A dead brother. A phantom boat in the mist. Nightmares. And then, a body.
In this modern-day gothic novel set on the scenic Columbia River Gorge, Sage Blackthorn revisits demons from her past and confronts a multitude of new ones when she returns to her childhood home to solve the mystery of her brother’s death.
Sage left the Pacific Northwest ten years ago and has worked her way into a cushy travel editor’s job at one of the big five women’s magazines based in New York City. Recently, however, her life has taken an ugly turn. Her leave of absence from the magazine has as much to do with her own disastrous lifestyle as it does her dead brother.
Once at Blackthorn, the family’s decrepit resort, Sage is confronted with a flood of problems. Her grandmother, who raised her and her brother Ross, is in steep decline; the hotel is closed, and the baths don’t bring in enough to keep the lights on; and she soon realizes that her brother’s death was no accident. Sinister activities in the boathouse disturb her sleep and raise suspicions, even as she must admit she is an unreliable witness.
In this modern-day gothic novel set on the scenic Columbia River Gorge, Sage Blackthorn revisits demons from her past and confronts a multitude of new ones when she returns to her childhood home to solve the mystery of her brother’s death.
Sage left the Pacific Northwest ten years ago and has worked her way into a cushy travel editor’s job at one of the big five women’s magazines based in New York City. Recently, however, her life has taken an ugly turn. Her leave of absence from the magazine has as much to do with her own disastrous lifestyle as it does her dead brother.
Once at Blackthorn, the family’s decrepit resort, Sage is confronted with a flood of problems. Her grandmother, who raised her and her brother Ross, is in steep decline; the hotel is closed, and the baths don’t bring in enough to keep the lights on; and she soon realizes that her brother’s death was no accident. Sinister activities in the boathouse disturb her sleep and raise suspicions, even as she must admit she is an unreliable witness.
323 pages, ebook
Published March 12, 2019
About the author
Judy Nedry
13 books24 followers Judy Nedry is a journalist cum mystery novelist who wrote about Pacific Northwest wines and wineries for national and international magazines before turning her attention to her first love, mysteries. She parlays her experience of the wine industry and of small rural communities, into the Emma Golden Mystery Series which debuted in 2009. "An Unholy Alliance" is set in the vineyard-covered hills southwest of Portland, Oregon. The second in the series, "The Difficult Sister," is set on the remote southern Oregon coast. It was followed by book 3 in the series, "The Man Who Wasn't There," in 2015.
Her most recent novel is a stand-alone gothic thriller strongly influenced by Daphne DuMaurier's "Jamaica Inn" and by Stephen King's "The Shining". "Blackthorn" is set in an old wreck of a resort on the Columbia River Gorge in western Washington. It was released in April 2019. Like all Nedry's novel, it features a strong female protagonist in a compelling regional setting.
The author resides in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
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Her most recent novel is a stand-alone gothic thriller strongly influenced by Daphne DuMaurier's "Jamaica Inn" and by Stephen King's "The Shining". "Blackthorn" is set in an old wreck of a resort on the Columbia River Gorge in western Washington. It was released in April 2019. Like all Nedry's novel, it features a strong female protagonist in a compelling regional setting.
The author resides in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
From the author: Subscribe to my newsletter and find out more at www.judynedry.com
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