The Return
(Sprache: Englisch)
A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut.
Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone,...
Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone,...
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A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut.Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She s right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she s been or what happened to her.
Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong she s emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who or what is she?
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I.What do you mean she s missing?
I watched frantic ants descend upon a nearby apple core and a face-down slice of pizza. A renegade splinter faction marched across the parking lot with tiny bits of food on their backs. The raccoons must have been in the garbage behind my office again, and I made a mental note to report it when I got back inside, but of course I forgot.
She s missing, Molly said, her exasperation creeping in through the receiver. I don t know how else to explain it to you.
She s not missing.
Above all else, I knew two truths about Julie. The first was that she was the most stubborn, most determined person I d ever met. And the second was she loved attention. Julie would never be missing. She might go dark, intentionally disappear herself for a few days here or there just to make sure someone noticed. A pop quiz: Do you love me? That she was capable of. That I believed. But missing, as in milk cartons and posters and hounds in fields, no way.
I told Molly as much.
What year do you think this is? Milk cartons?
That s my point. People don t go missing anymore.
What? What world are you living in?
I d been asking myself that question for a long time. I didn t have an answer for her.
She left her house last Friday morning to go hiking and she never came
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back. Tristan filed a Missing Persons report. They have a team out looking for her.
Looking where?
Acadia National Park.
How d you find out?
He called me.
He called you?
I don t know why me, Elise, so don t start.
Tristan was Julie s husband. None of us had ever met him. They had gone to the same high school and reconnected when Julie returned to her gloomy Massachusetts hometown to take care of her sick mother. They got married before her mom died, so she could be there. The ceremony and reception were held in someone s backyard. We were sent two pictures from that day. One of them cutting a two-tiered, pale yellow cake topped with sugared daisies. The other was of Julie standing in a patch of generous sunlight, smiling with her head back, like she was mid-laugh, or the weight of her happiness was too much for her neck. She wore a birdcage veil.
It was a shock to all of us. It might have been the shock of our lives had she not gone missing.
What do we do? I asked Molly.
Looking where?
Acadia National Park.
How d you find out?
He called me.
He called you?
I don t know why me, Elise, so don t start.
Tristan was Julie s husband. None of us had ever met him. They had gone to the same high school and reconnected when Julie returned to her gloomy Massachusetts hometown to take care of her sick mother. They got married before her mom died, so she could be there. The ceremony and reception were held in someone s backyard. We were sent two pictures from that day. One of them cutting a two-tiered, pale yellow cake topped with sugared daisies. The other was of Julie standing in a patch of generous sunlight, smiling with her head back, like she was mid-laugh, or the weight of her happiness was too much for her neck. She wore a birdcage veil.
It was a shock to all of us. It might have been the shock of our lives had she not gone missing.
What do we do? I asked Molly.
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Autoren-Porträt von Rachel Harrison
Rachel Harrison was born and raised in the weird state of New Jersey. She received her bachelor's in Writing for Film & Television from Emerson College. After graduating, she worked on TV game shows, in publishing, and for a big bank. She lives in Rochester, NY with her husband and their cat/overlord. This is her first novel.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rachel Harrison
- 2020, Internationale Ausgabe, 304 Seiten, Maße: 14,6 x 23 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Berkley
- ISBN-10: 0593197682
- ISBN-13: 9780593197684
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.03.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Marvelous. The storytelling is quick, well plotted and engrossing." - The New York Times"Hair-raising horror and pure entertainment...The tension and nuance of Harrison s complicated female friendships add depth to an already delicious, chilling debut."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The Return is supernatural horror at its very best! Sharp dialogue, complex relationships and mind-bending action will have readers locking their doors and checking under their beds. Rachel Harrison has reinvented this genre and will surely be hailed as a pioneer among her peers. Wendy Walker, National Bestselling Author of The Night Before
Combining suspense and horror with razor-sharp insights into the nature of female friendships, Rachel Harrison s The Return is a creepy, nerve-wracking, page-turning addition to the emerging field of horror thrillers. Alma Katsu, Author of The Deep and The Hunger
"By turns scary and funny, horrifying and real, The Return is impossible to put down. It takes an honest, scathing look at female friendship while at the same time pulling the reader into a perfect nightmare of a story."--Simone St. James, USA Today bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel
The Return is moving and terrifying in equal measure. A brilliant rumination on friendship, pain, and the myriad of unsuccessful ways we all try to run from our past and fill the holes in our hearts. Harrison s keen prose won t let you go. Be warned, you ll double check the locks on your doors before you try to sleep. Mallory O Meara, National bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon
A sharp, refreshing book about the mortifying ordeal of being known. This is a book that understands how terrifying a lasting friendship can truly be; Harrison brilliantly highlights the way friendships can tether a person to their worst memories, their worst selves, and their worst nightmares.
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Sarah Gailey, National bestselling author of Magic for Liars
"Harrison s The Return expertly treads the fine line between thriller and horror. It s as deliciously creepy as opening up a box of candy-coated spiders and eating them all in one sitting."--Christina Dalcher, author of Vox
"Harrison s The Return expertly treads the fine line between thriller and horror. It s as deliciously creepy as opening up a box of candy-coated spiders and eating them all in one sitting."--Christina Dalcher, author of Vox
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