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From one of America’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers, a chilling, spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life multiple murder by a con man who preyed on widows—a story that has haunted Jayne Anne Phillips for more than four decades. Jayne Anne Phillips’s debut collection, Black Tickets, galvanized critics & readers when it was published in 1979 & announced her as one of the great new voices of her generation. Her four novels, prizewinners & reader favorites, have secured her place as one of America’s most celebrated storytellers. In Quiet Dell, Phillips re-imagines a gruesome crime in a tiny West Virginia community not far from where she grew up. In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, mother of three, is lonely & despairing, pressed for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish & protect her, ultimately to marry her & to care for her & her children. Weeks later, the family are dead.Emily Thornhill, one of the few women in the Chicago press, covers the case & becomes deeply invested in understanding what happened to this beautiful family, particularl

Who reads Quiet Dell : A Novel?

Author

Phillips, Jayne Anne

Publisher

Scribner

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439172537

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.26 / 5 (1,623 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13