The Lace Reader by
Brunonia Barry
This is an intricate story that is set in the town of Salem,
Mass. Giving the setting, one immediately
thinks about witches and yes this novel does delve into that subject.
Towner Whitney receives a package from her Aunt Eva with a
note asking her to come home to Salem along with her lace making pillow. Aunt Eva was very adept at making and reading
lace and would not normally part with her pillow. But she wanted Towner to come home. Towner had not been back to Salem since the
untimely death of her twin sister. In
fact, when her sister died she had suffered a nervous breakdown and was
hospitalized. When she was released she
went to California where she hoped to put the past behind her and for that
matter Salem as well.
The day after receiving
this package she gets a call from her brother informing her that Eva was
missing and presumed dead. She is then
forced to go to Salem where once again she must face painful memories and past demons. She must find out what happened to her Aunt
Eva and her sister’s death.
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