Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Crime & mystery fiction

THE LOST HISTORY OF DREAMS

Kris Waldherr

A Gothic mystery tale of eternal lovers, old and mouldering houses, family secrets, death and ghosts ...

When famed poet Hugh de Bonne is discovered dead, his cousin Robert Highstead, a post-mortem daguerreotypist, is charged with a simple task: transport Hugh's remains for burial in the chapel where the poet's wife Ada was buried many years ago. However, Robert has first to uncover the story of Ada's and Hugh's ill-fated marriage ... and deal with the ghots of his own past.

Kris Waldherr's fiction has been awarded with fellowships by the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts and a reading grant by Poets & Writers.

Available products
Book Published 2019-04-09 by Atria
Book Published 2019-04-09 by Atria

Comments

"Waldherr's gripping debut mystery takes its inspiration from gothic-romance classics like Wuthering Heights."

"The haunting beauty of the love story makes Ada and Hugh come alive as characters. As in many Gothic stories, the moldering old house that represents family tragedy is a fitting, creepy backdrop to the mysteries of the past. Waldherr avoids cliche in her rich descriptions and hints of supernatural presence ... Waldherr writes that 'love stories are ghost stories in disguise.' This one, happily, succeeds as both."