BooksThe Haunting of Maddy Clare
1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis—rich, handsome, and scarred by World War I—has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide.
Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to confront an angry ghost—real or imagined—on her own. She’s even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair’s associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach.
Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy’s ghost is no hoax—she’s real, she’s angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Now, Sarah and Matthew must discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance—before she destroys them all….
1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis—rich, handsome, and scarred by World War I—has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide.
Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to confront an angry ghost—real or imagined—on her own. She’s even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair’s associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach.
Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy’s ghost is no hoax—she’s real, she’s angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Now, Sarah and Matthew must discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance—before she destroys them all….
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Combining eerie supernatural hauntings with intricate murder mysteries, contemporary and historical suspense novels have found a distinct voice in chilling paranormal thrillers like The Sun Down Motel and The Broken Girls. Canadian author Simone St. James crafts stories centered around mysterious deaths, haunted locations, and persistent investigators. Her books blend creepy atmospheric tension with crime investigations to deliver propulsive narratives about long-buried secrets.
Simone St. James wrote her first ghost story, which was set in a haunted library, while attending high school. She spent twenty years working behind the scenes in the television business before deciding in her thirties to pursue a professional career in fiction writing. Her debut novel, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, achieved widespread recognition, earning two RITA Awards from the Romance Writers of America as well as an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. Following the success of her debut and her subsequent novel An Inquiry Into Love and Death, St. James left television to write full-time. She became a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with her multi-timeline mystery thrillers and lives just outside Toronto, Canada, with her husband and a rescue cat.
Inspired by a desire to read ghost stories that were eerie and unsettling without being excessively gory, St. James began crafting fiction centered on the spooky possibilities of the supernatural. Her early novels focused on historical mysteries, frequently set in post-World War I England, while her later works incorporate modern dual timelines, true-crime elements, and sinister roadside settings like remote motels and highways. Recurring themes across her writing include cold case investigations, female solidarity, lingering hauntings, boarding school secrets, and ghost stories where the spirits are inextricably tied to unpunished crimes.
6 books in catalog
Combining eerie supernatural hauntings with intricate murder mysteries, contemporary and historical suspense novels have found a distinct voice in chilling paranormal thrillers like The Sun Down Motel and The Broken Girls. Canadian author Simone St. James crafts stories centered around mysterious deaths, haunted locations, and persistent investigators. Her books blend creepy atmospheric tension with crime investigations to deliver propulsive narratives about long-buried secrets.
Simone St. James wrote her first ghost story, which was set in a haunted library, while attending high school. She spent twenty years working behind the scenes in the television business before deciding in her thirties to pursue a professional career in fiction writing. Her debut novel, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, achieved widespread recognition, earning two RITA Awards from the Romance Writers of America as well as an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. Following the success of her debut and her subsequent novel An Inquiry Into Love and Death, St. James left television to write full-time. She became a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with her multi-timeline mystery thrillers and lives just outside Toronto, Canada, with her husband and a rescue cat.
Inspired by a desire to read ghost stories that were eerie and unsettling without being excessively gory, St. James began crafting fiction centered on the spooky possibilities of the supernatural. Her early novels focused on historical mysteries, frequently set in post-World War I England, while her later works incorporate modern dual timelines, true-crime elements, and sinister roadside settings like remote motels and highways. Recurring themes across her writing include cold case investigations, female solidarity, lingering hauntings, boarding school secrets, and ghost stories where the spirits are inextricably tied to unpunished crimes.
