the end of temperance dare by wendy webb

Soon sparks unexpectedly fly between Norrie and both Nathan Davidson, the curiously old-school physician living on the grounds, and one of the visiting fellows, dashing nature photographer Richard Banks. Then, within hours of her arrival, tragedy strikes-and she’s about to discover that she has every reason to be terrified.

She lives in Minneapolis with her part-time dog, Zeus, and is at work on her next novel.Former reporter Eleanor “Norrie” Harper, the narrator of this solid supernatural thriller from Webb ( The Vanishing), can’t fathom her feelings of dread before starting a dream job-becoming director of Cliffside Manor, the storied one-time TB sanatorium, once owned by the wealthy Dare family, now turned into a retreat for artists and writers on the shore of Lake Superior. Her second and third novels, The Fate of Mercy Alban and The Vanishing, established her as a leading suspense novelist, who reviewers are calling the Queen of the Northern Gothic. When it won the 2011 Minnesota Book Award for genre fiction, she started writing fiction full-time. After two decades as a journalist, writing for varied publications including USA TODAY, The Huffington Post, The Star Tribune, Midwest Living, and others, Wendy wrote her first novel, The Tale of Halcyon Crane. Wendy Webb knew from the minute she read A Wrinkle in Time at age eleven that she was destined to be a writer.

“Tantalizing… could well be played on a Clue game board, with macabre crimes, inexplicable disappearances, and enough eerie suspense to drive one mad.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune As the chilling mysteries of Cliffside Manor unravel and the eerie sins of the past are revealed, Eleanor must fight to save the fellows-and herself-from sinister forces. After the arrival of the new fellows―including the intriguing photographer Richard Banks―she begins to suspect that her predecessor chose the group with a dangerous aim in mind. When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of an acclaimed artists’ retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor’s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a “waiting room for death.” After years of covering murder and violence as a crime reporter, Eleanor hopes that being around artists and writers in this new job will be a peaceful retreat for her as much as for them.īut from her first fog-filled moments on the manor’s grounds, Eleanor is gripped by a sense of impending doom and realizes there’s more to the institution than its reputation of being a haven for creativity. Listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction, The End of Temperance Dare (2017) is a thriller by Wendy Webb.

The end of temperance dare by wendy webb