| International Standard Book Number |
9798217044108 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9798217184644 (international edition)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9798217044092 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Sager, Riley, author.
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| Title Statement |
The unknown : a novel / Riley Sager.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
353 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
Color illustrations on endpapers.
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| General Note |
Hardcover includes designed endpapers, a foil-stamped case, and sprayed edges.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one-hundred years later, it's happening again. Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. She's even more surprised when she learns that the role requires a weeklong research trip to that very spot. Because New Avalon isn't your ordinary island. A century ago, it was a commune for spiritual mediums -- until they all vanished in 1926. The only trace of them was five dresses hanging from the branches of an old oak tree in the middle of the island, one for each missing woman. Some locals say they simply left. Others think they were murdered. But the prevailing opinion, thanks to a diary left behind by one of the vanished, a young woman named Daisy Rue, is that a seance gone wrong conjured something supernatural that took them all one by one. Not long after arriving, Marin and her castmates, including legendary actress Violet Wright and white-hot director Ronan Peters, begin to realize all is not right with New Avalon. They hear strange noises in the night and notice mysterious symbols left behind by the island's previous occupants. And after a sudden health emergency leaves Marin, Ronan, and the other actors stranded on the island, the disappearances begin again. Is it the work of someone trying to derail the movie? Or is the island's alleged supernatural past catching up with the present? As fear and suspicion mount, Marin turns to Daisy's diary, hoping it holds the key to figuring out what really happened to the women of New Avalon -- and how to keep the island's terrible history from repeating itself." -- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing persons Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Actresses Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Islands Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motion pictures Production and direction Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Vermont Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Suspense fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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