Specters in the Glass House

by Jaime Jo Wright

Overview

An ominous butterfly house. A sinister legacy. An untraceable killer.

In 1921, Marian Arnold, the heiress to a brewing baron's empire, seeks solace in the glass butterfly house on her family's Wisconsin estate as Prohibition and the deaths of her parents cast a long shadow over her shrinking world. When Marian's sanctuary is invaded by nightmarish visions, she grapples with the line between hallucinations of things to come and malevolent forces at play in the present. With dead butterflies as the killer's ominous signature, murders unfold at a steady pace. Marian, fearful she might be next, enlists the help of her childhood friend Felix, a war veteran with his own haunted past.

In the present day, researcher Remy Shaw becomes entangled in an elderly biographer's quest to uncover the truth behind Marian Arnold's mysterious life and the unsolved murders linked to an infamous serial killer. Joined by Marian's great-great-grandson, can Remy expose the evil that lurks beneath broken wings? Or will the dark legacy surrounding the manor and its glass house destroy yet another generation?

"Wright is in a class by herself."—Library Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764241468
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/01/2024
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	82,221
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jaime Jo Wright is the author of ten novels, including Christy Award and Daphne du Maurier Award winner The House on Foster Hill and Carol Award winner The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond. She's also a three-time Christy Award finalist, as well as the ECPA bestselling author of The Vanishing at Castle Moreau, The Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater, and two Publishers Weekly bestselling novellas. Jaime lives in Wisconsin with her family and fabulous felines. Learn more at JaimeWrightBooks.com.

Editorial Reviews

08/12/2024

A young research assistant unravels the mystery behind a Milwaukee socialite’s alleged death in this eerie dual-timeline tale from Wright (Night Falls on Predicament Avenue). Remy Crenshaw has just landed a job assisting eccentric author Elton Floyd on his next project—a biography of Marian Arnold, a Prohibition-era socialite rumored to haunt the halls of the manor where she was murdered. When Remy moves into the house and begins scouring it—and the internet—for information, she discovers the Arnolds’ family history includes a bankrupted brewery business and a murder by the so-called “Butterfly Butcher,” who left dead butterflies next to his victims. With the help of her faith and U.S. Marine veteran Tate Arnold, a distant relative of the Arnold clan with secrets of his own, Remy comes to believe that Marian may not have been murdered—and sets out to uncover the truth behind her disappearance. Wright uses the parallel story lines—one in the present, the other in the 1920s—to ratchet up tension as uncanny resonances between Marian’s and Remy’s lives send sinister echoes across time and space. Readers will be eager to take this twisty, suspense-filled ride. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly