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Catherine, no last name, doesn’t bury the dead. She rescues the living—from intolerable, abusive, dangerous lives. Her darknet-based witness protection program, the Burial Society, is the last hope for people who desperately need to disappear. Catherine takes care of them and provides new identities. She is effective and efficient—until she discovers that her slipup may have compromised a client, maybe even killed her. Powerless to help without exposing her shadowy profession, Catherine makes a drastic move.
With her covert service relocated to Paris, Catherine’s done her best to move on. But when a dark part of her past suddenly appears in the City of Light, she refuses to run—and her life takes a harrowing turn.
Using all the tricks of her unusual trade, Catherine weaves her way through a dangerous landscape of treachery, infidelity, paranoia, and secrets that bind as deeply as blood. But the evil of the enemy she’s pursuing runs deeper still—to the bone. And even Catherine’s most cunning skills may not be enough to save herself.
Praise for The Burial Society
“A complex but strangely exciting thriller.”—Booklist
“A deeply unsettling, compulsively entertaining Rubik’s Cube of a novel . . . Every time you think you’ve unlocked the puzzle, Nina Sadowsky introduces a new twist that makes you start guessing all over again.”—Michelle Richmond, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog and The Marriage Pact
“The Burial Society is a twisty, ever-deeper, can’t-let-go read! The heroine can trust no one as she struggles to help abused and endangered women in a world of secrets and shadows. . . . A dynamite psychological thriller by a new master of the genre.”—Karen Harper, New York Times bestselling author of Falling Darkness
“Addicting and chilling . . . a smart, sophisticated, terrifying trip to the City of Light.”—Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series
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Release date
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780425284384
- File size: 3912 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780425284384
- File size: 3912 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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November 27, 2017
In this underwhelming psychological thriller from Sadowsky (Just Fall), 18-year-old Natalie Burrows finds her father, Brian, slain in the family’s Paris apartment. The police assume that a robber did the deed, but Natalie and her 21-year-old brother, Jake, remain unconvinced and launch their own investigations. Meanwhile, Brian’s murder catches the attention of a mysterious figure identified only as Catherine, who helps troubled women vanish and start over. Three years earlier, Brian’s adulterous wife, Mallory, began receiving anonymous threats. Mallory was already considering leaving Brian for her lover, so she reached out to Catherine for assistance. Before they could meet, Mallory went missing and is now presumed dead. Mallory’s disappearance still haunts Catherine—particularly now that Mallory’s children are orphans—so, to ease her guilt and satisfy her curiosity, Catherine assumes an alias and endeavors to determine whether both spouses were killed by the same person. Ill-defined stakes and a dearth of action sap tension, while clichéd characters with a penchant for melodrama rob the story of emotional heft. Agent: Emma Sweeney, Emma Sweeney Agency. -
December 15, 2017
This layered thriller opens with a woman stalking another woman and then drugging and kidnapping her, and it only gets weirder after that. As the story unfolds, then refolds, then jumps back and forth in time, readers are introduced to a dysfunctional family in which the mother is missing, the father is found murdered, and an uncle who assumes guardianship of his orphaned niece and nephew protects them to the point of imprisonment. Hovering around these troubled lives is the kidnapper from the beginning of the book, a woman named Catherine, whose work in the mysterious Burial Society finds her often disguised and going by one of several aliases. Things sometimes become difficult to follow as minor characters come and go, but several unexpected twists help readers make sense of what has happened. Sadowsky, who has worked in TV and movies (her debut, Just Fall, 2016, is in development for a STARZ series), and her knack for dialogue and setting a scene are on display here. A complex but strangely exciting thriller.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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