The Madness
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
Award-winning author Dawn Kurtagich masterfully weaves a captivating tale of suspense and horror, in which Dr. Mina Murray returns to the windswept shores of Wales to help her childhood friend fight the mysterious illness that plagues her. When the lines between reality and delusion begin to blur, Mina must face off against a monstrous legacy—or be consumed herself.
Beware what waits in the shadows…
With one unexpected email from her estranged best friend, Lucy, Mina Murray’s carefully curated life is turned upside down. Leaving behind her psychiatric practice in London, she returns home to the windswept shores of Wales. Faced with everything she’s left behind, she soon discovers that Lucy’s symptoms mirror those of her mysterious amnesiac patient hundreds of miles away.
With nothing but an untreatable sickness connecting the two women, and with Lucy’s life on the line, Mina finds herself asking questions and being drawn ever-deeper into a web of secrets, missing girls, and the powerful, nameless force at its center—one that has been haunting her for years.
As terrible, ancient truths begin to reveal themselves, Mina prepares to confront her own darkest secrets, and with them, an evil beyond comprehension. Together with a group of smart, savvy women, Mina seizes one last, desperate chance to stop the cycle that began so long ago. But there are dangers to inviting the attentions of what might not be a man, but a monster…
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
If you love Bram Stoker’s Dracula but not how its female characters are reduced to victims, Dawn Kurtagich’s brilliant update is for you. Dr. Mina Murray, a respected psychiatrist hiding fairly severe symptoms of PTSD, must confront her dark past and the small Welsh town she fled years ago after her former best friend sends a desperate, incoherent email complaining of a mysterious medical condition. Turns out the illness may be linked to the disappearances of several young women as well as Mina’s new bug-eating patient in London. Can this sinister threat be stopped before it claims more victims? Delicate and mannered, narrator Imogen Church captures the voice of a woman who has established a fierce but brittle control over the pain and fear that still seethes within her. Snippets of the musical Welsh language interspersed with the English dialogue add lovely accents to the listening experience. This suspenseful supernatural thriller is also a sensitive exploration of a woman’s trauma.
