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A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel

Her family became her private pantheon

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“Lam concludes the duology that began with Dragonfall in this action-filled novel with the highest of stakes

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The Painted Bridge: A Novel BOTY_2025 A true crime blogger getsSpellbinding and intricate, The Painted Bridge is a tale of secrets, lost lives, and a woman seizing her own destiny: A chilling page turner about the muddy line between sanity and madness (Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You). Outside London behind a stone wall stands Lake House, a private asylum for genteel women of a delicate nature. In the winter of 1859, recently married Anna Palmer becomes its newest arrival, tricked by her husband into