Killingly

Katharine Beutner is an assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Her first novel <i>Alcestis</i> won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award in 2011 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Association's Lesbian Debut Fiction Award. Her writing has appeared in Tinfish The Los Angeles Review of Books The Toast and other publications. Recently she received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. She is the editor in chief of The Dodge a magazine of eco-writing and translation and lives in Cleveland Ohio. *FEATURED IN <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>APPLE'S BEST BOOKS AMAZON'S BEST BOOKS OF JUNE<br>CRIMEREADS RECOMMENDS AND LITHUB'S TOP BOOKS*<br><b></b><br><b>'SARAH WATERS AND DONNA TARTT SQUAD BUCKLE UP: Killingly is hitting the </b><i><b>Plain Bad Heroines</b></i><b> place in my heart again' </b><i>Autostraddle</i><br><br><b>'Impressive' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Gothic atmosphere great period detail and a genuine shock at the end' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>1897 New England. </b>Agnes and Bertha are best friends. Clever eccentric misfits at an elite college for young women they study earnestly write poems for each other and explore the woods around campus at night. One morning Bertha vanishes.<br><br>Called down from Boston renowned missing person expert Detective Higham arrives to find the tranquil college in chaos. A treasured pearl dagger has disappeared from a student's bedroom. The most popular debutante on campus is losing her mind. There are rumours of a ghostly woman at the train station.<br><br>As he questions the students and teachers Higham unearths a strange story of doomed love ambition and tragedy which could shatter the college's glittering reputation forever . . .<br><b>A gothic turn-of-the-century campus thriller about female desire rage and ambition perfect for fans of <i>TRIFLERS NEED NOT APPLY THE BINDING </i>and <i>FINGERSMITH . . .</i></b><br><b>*</b><br><b></b><br><b></b><b>EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT <i>KILLINGLY</i>:</b><br><br><b>'A haunting story . . . will stay with me long after reading'</b> ELIZABETH LEE author of <i>Cunning Women</i><br><br><b>'Completely engrossing. Unforgettable!' </b>MARTHA CONWAY author of <i>The Physician's Daughter</i><br><br><b>'Beutner is masterful at depicting the intrigue and innuendo of a women's college.</b> <b>Perfect pacing . . . grows </b><b>increasingly shocking as the pages turn' </b><i>The Akron Beacon Journal</i> <b>A gothic historical thriller about female ambition based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a university student in 1897. Perfect for fans of Camilla Bruce Stacey Halls Laura Purcell and Sarah Waters. </b> <b>An</b> <b>impressive multistranded story</b> <b>SARAH WATERS AND DONNA TARTT SQUAD BUCKLE UP: Killingly the latest from Katharine Beutner is hitting the <i>Plain Bad Heroines</i> place in my heart again.</b> <b>A haunting story</b> of the disappearance of a young woman and the devastating aftermath for those who love her <i>Killingly</i> is <b>a moving portrayal of loss sisterhood and the quiet heroism of women.</b> This book and its characters will stay with me long after reading. <b>Katharine Beutner has</b> <b>spun a lost scrap of history into a campus mystery novel</b> set in the late 1800s when an elite women's college is consumed by the search for a missing student. Gossip and clues to her whereabouts-or her death-fester with accusation and suspicion. In their longing to find the beloved young woman her best friend Agnes and her older sister Florence must each grapple with their own dangerous secrets. <b>A story of women who defy strict rules <i>Killingly</i> is a gripping novel of intrigue and surprising twists.</b> <b>Secrets upon secrets unfold in this completely engrossing story about the disappearance of a Mount Holyoke girl in the late 1800s. I was half-charmed half-horrified by every peculiar character and every unexpected twist. Unforgettable!</b> KILLINGLY <b>moves deliberately achingly through one young woman's disappearance in 1897. </b>Out of the real-life facts of the case Katharine Beutner makes <b>extraordinary fiction</b> pushing against the limits of her characters' situations and propelling us to the heights of their ambitions. Beutner's novel is able to discover an answer to Bertha Mellish's mystery. <b>Now more than ever we need to know the truth this story reveals.</b> This is <b>a superb novel suffused with dread riddled with covert motivations and desires reckoning with painful secrets</b> artfully rendering the myriad facets of this mysterious case <b>while bearing witness to the sacrifices many women have made to live-and die-authentically.</b> <b>...investigate[s] the nature of those who stand apart from the crowd and are punished for their independence.</b> <b>Almost all the characters guard secrets of their own secrets that Beutner exposes one by one as she skillfully stretches out the tension. </b> An atmospheric reimagining (...) <b>gothic atmosphere great period detail and a genuine shock at the end.</b> <b>Beutner is masterful at depicting the intrigue and innuendo of a women's college.</b> <b>With perfect pacing she drops casual revelations that grow increasingly shocking as the pages turn.</b> <b>Startling.</b> The storyline will keep you guessing and engaged as it also deals with issues still in the news today.<b> I predict this mystery will be in a lot of beach bags this summer.</b> <b>Beutner keeps us on the edge of our seats as she unravels their tangle of secrets and lies.</b> <b>Katharine Beutner has written a stunning historical mystery based on a true missing person case. <i>Killingly</i> hits all the high notes!</b> <b>An</b> <b>impressive multistranded story</b> <b>SARAH WATERS AND DONNA TARTT SQUAD BUCKLE UP: Killingly the latest from Katharine Beutner is hitting the <i>Plain Bad Heroines</i> place in my heart again.</b> <b>A haunting story</b> of the disappearance of a young woman and the devastating aftermath for those who love her <i>Killingly</i> is <b>a moving portrayal of loss sisterhood and the quiet heroism of women.</b> This book and its characters will stay with me long after reading. <b>Katharine Beutner has</b> <b>spun a lost scrap of history into a campus mystery novel</b> set in the late 1800s when an elite women's college is consumed by the search for a missing student. Gossip and clues to her whereabouts-or her death-fester with accusation and suspicion. In their longing to find the beloved young woman her best friend Agnes and her older sister Florence must each grapple with their own dangerous secrets. <b>A story of women who defy strict rules <i>Killingly</i> is a gripping novel of intrigue and surprising twists.</b> <b>Secrets upon secrets unfold in this completely engrossing story about the disappearance of a Mount Holyoke girl in the late 1800s. I was half-charmed half-horrified by every peculiar character and every unexpected twist. Unforgettable!</b> KILLINGLY <b>moves deliberately achingly through one young woman's disappearance in 1897. </b>Out of the real-life facts of the case Katharine Beutner makes <b>extraordinary fiction</b> pushing against the limits of her characters' situations and propelling us to the heights of their ambitions. Beutner's novel is able to discover an answer to Bertha Mellish's mystery. <b>Now more than ever we need to know the truth this story reveals.</b> This is <b>a superb novel suffused with dread riddled with covert motivations and desires reckoning with painful secrets</b> artfully rendering the myriad facets of this mysterious case <b>while bearing witness to the sacrifices many women have made to live-and die-authentically.</b> <b>...investigate[s] the nature of those who stand apart from the crowd and are punished for their independence.</b> <b>Almost all the characters guard secrets of their own secrets that Beutner exposes one by one as she skillfully stretches out the tension. </b> An atmospheric reimagining (...) <b>gothic atmosphere great period detail and a genuine shock at the end.</b> <b>Beutner is masterful at depicting the intrigue and innuendo of a women's college.</b> <b>With perfect pacing she drops casual revelations that grow increasingly shocking as the pages turn.</b> <b>Startling.</b> The storyline will keep you guessing and engaged as it also deals with issues still in the news today.<b> I predict this mystery will be in a lot of beach bags this summer.</b> <b>Beutner keeps us on the edge of our seats as she unravels their tangle of secrets and lies.</b> <b>Katharine Beutner has written a stunning historical mystery based on a true missing person case. <i>Killingly</i> hits all the high notes!</b>