“It’s a - well, sort of a self-contained little community,” his driver explains. So, here’s Quinn, 45 miles from his destination, with The Tower being the only source of food and drink nearby.
Distance is something else: open space is commonplace. The driver suggests that Quinn must be from the eastern United States, if he thinks 45 miles is a long way away.
Readers discover the landscape for themselves when Quinn is dropped off at “nowhere”, having hitched a ride to San Felice. Her friend, George Hammond, said “So start your own”, when she said that she didn’t know anything about cults, and How Like an Angel is what issued from the idea that these buildings had been last occupied by a mystic and George Hammond’s challenge. The view was incredible: the Pacific Ocean, the Santa Ynez valley, Lake Cachuma, and the San Rafael mountains, along with a main lodge, out-buildings, and a tower. The investigation into the disappearance of a wealthy California rancher brings to light the secrets of a whole community this a haunting and complex masterpiece of suspense.Exploring in the back country of Santa Barbara County California, Margaret Millar discovered a group of abandoned buildings on top of a ridge of the Santa Ynez mountains. Complex discussions of feminism, child abuse, and racism blend seamlessly into four of the most chilling tales ever told.Ī young housewife named Daisy Harker’s world is upended when a blank spot in her memory and a reoccurring nightmare link her to an unsolved murder and a decades-old conspiracy.Ĭalifornia cultists, duplicitous damsels in distress, and dangerously high stakes conspire against Joe Quinn, a private eye who is beginning to feel more like a knight-errant.Ī young girl is at risk this tense and disturbing page-turner that reveals a web of domestic abuse among a disparate cast of middle class Americans. The four novels in this collection straddle one of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th century and display Millar’s uncanny ability to craft truly disturbing suspense fiction while still addressing social issues. Four legendary novels of suspense from Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster and Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year, Margaret Millar
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