A Gingerbread House

by Catriona McPherson

Overview

An invitation you can't refuse. You should . . . When shy, lonely Ivy meets a woman who claims to be her long-lost sister, she knows it's too good to be true. She decides to trust Kate anyway. She wants a family. She wants someone to love. She's making a mistake. Ivy enters Kate's fairytale cottage, deep in the heart of Scotland . . . and she doesn't come out. She's the first to go missing. She won't be the last. Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Tash's journey is just beginning . . . Multi-award-winning master of suspense Catriona McPherson is back with an ominous, twisty psychological thriller set in contemporary Scotland that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780297996
Publisher:	Severn House
Publication date:	03/29/2022
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Born in West Lothian and educated at Edinburgh University, Catriona McPherson has been a full-time fiction writer since 2001. She is the multi-award-winning author of the Dandy Gilver historical mysteries, the Last Ditch mysteries and a number of standalone psychological thrillers. She lives in northern California.

Editorial Reviews

Quiet Neighbors drew me in from the very first page, and I stayed up late reading it because I couldn't wait to find out what happened next

CHARLAINE HARRIS

A beautifully described Scottish setting; well-developed characters; and multiple plot twists distinguish this creepy, unsettling novel of psychological suspense

Booklist

A disturbing story of madness and fortitude that grabs your attention from Page 1 - Kirkus Reviews

[An] unsettling psychological thriller - Publishers Weekly 

From the Publisher

A beautifully described Scottish setting; well-developed characters; and multiple plot twists distinguish this creepy, unsettling novel of psychological suspense

Booklist

2021-05-19
McPherson shows four women’s lives colliding in a life-or-death struggle in Scotland.

Tash Dodd works at her parents’ trucking firm, where she stumbles upon something that horrifies her. Apparently her father’s business includes human trafficking. She plans to force him to turn over the business to her and then turn him in. Meanwhile, at a meeting of the Nine Lives League, Ivy, a middle-aged woman seeking a cat for companionship, meets Kate, who says that Ivy looks exactly like her sister, Gail, and, suggesting that they might be twins, invites her to their unusual home in Hephaw, West Lothian. Martine is a woman of mixed race who’s searched her whole life for the identity of her father. At a genealogical meeting, she meets Kate, who claims to know who her father is and invites her to her house to meet her sister, Gail. Laura, an attractive woman in search of a fairy-tale life, tries an unusual dating service and is invited to a dinner dance at the home of Kate and her sister. Ivy, Martine, and Laura are all taken captive, drugged, and kept in a dank, putrid basement. Although they’ve all been reported missing, the police don’t look very hard until Tash, who’s been working for various van companies, goes on the run after her father refuses to give up control and ends up in an apartment overlooking an odd house in Hephaw. Trapped while investigating, she and the three brave captives plot to escape.

A disturbing story of madness and fortitude that grabs your attention from Page 1.

Kirkus Reviews