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<p><P>Journeying to Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to shoot a photo essay about a century-old double murder, a photographer becomes absorbed by the crime and increasingly obsessed with jealousy over the idea that her husband is having an affair.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In 1873, two women living on the Isles of Shoals, a lonely, windswept group of islands off the coast of New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. A third woman survived, cowering in a sea cave until dawn. More than a century later, Jean, a magazine photographer working on a photoessay about the murders, returns to the Isles with her husband, Thomas, and their five-year-old daughter, Billie, aboard a boat skippered by her brother-in-law, Rich, who has brought along his girlfriend, Adaline. As Jean becomes immersed in the details of the 19th-century murders, Thomas and Adaline find themselves drawn together-with potentially ruinous consequences. Shreve (<i>Where or When</i>; <i>Resistance</i>) perfectly captures the ubiquitous dampness of life on a sailboat, deftly evoking the way in which the weather comes to dictate all actions for those at sea. With the skill of a master shipbuilder, Shreve

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Author

Shreve, Anita

Publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316782500

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction

Rating

3.63 / 5 (21,714 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14