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New York : Berkley, May 2018 Jove edition
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Paperback Q
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434 p.; 18 cm
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"After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover. In Burning Cove, no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers, gangsters, and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda. Adelaide and Jake know better than to fall for her kind of con. But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed, they'll be drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection. Neither Adelaide nor Jake can predict that in the shadowy underground they'll find connections to the woman Adelaide used to be--and uncover the specter of a killer who's been real all along.."--… (more)
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LibraryThing member readinggeek451
Quick returns to the 1930s with another romantic suspense set in Burning Cove, California.
Adelaide has escaped from a private sanitarium--where her maybe-husband had her committed--and started a new life in Burning Cove. But there are dark doings in Burning Cove, connected to the sanitarium and to
Exciting and romantic. So far, I'm liking Quick's Burning Cove books (all two of them) even more than most of her Victorian ones.
Adelaide has escaped from a private sanitarium--where her maybe-husband had her committed--and started a new life in Burning Cove. But there are dark doings in Burning Cove, connected to the sanitarium and to
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the death of her parents. With the help of enigmatic ex-importer Jake Truett, Adelaide seeks to uncover the truth and to keep from being killed or returned to the sanitariumExciting and romantic. So far, I'm liking Quick's Burning Cove books (all two of them) even more than most of her Victorian ones.
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LibraryThing member Charlotte_Lynn
Take me back to the 1930’s… that is exactly what Amanda Quick has done. There is a drug called Daydream being made that causes hallucinations. Patient B, Adelaide, is forced to take these drugs when her husband(?) forces her into a sanitarium for the mentally ill so that he can take control of
I love the town of Burning Cove. I questioned every person who lived or visited the town. It seemed everyone had a secret. They had a reason to be in Burning Cove besides just visiting for the fun of it. It was interesting to try to guess what was going to happen, who was going to do what next, and who was guilty of what. Everyone is guilty of something, just some things are worse than others.
The characters in this book are great. There are so many quirks, so many background stories, and so interesting. I cheered for some, booed others, while trying to guess who is who within the story. I wanted to figure out how they fit together, how their stories would intertwine, and how it would all end.
Amanda Quick is a talented author. She is now on my must-read list and I am excited to read more from her. I definitely recommend picking up The Other Lady Vanishes and falling into the exciting world of Adelaide Black
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her inheritance. The amazing part? Adelaide escapes that sanitarium. She escapes and makes a life for herself in the small town of Burning Cove, California and meets Jake Truett.I love the town of Burning Cove. I questioned every person who lived or visited the town. It seemed everyone had a secret. They had a reason to be in Burning Cove besides just visiting for the fun of it. It was interesting to try to guess what was going to happen, who was going to do what next, and who was guilty of what. Everyone is guilty of something, just some things are worse than others.
The characters in this book are great. There are so many quirks, so many background stories, and so interesting. I cheered for some, booed others, while trying to guess who is who within the story. I wanted to figure out how they fit together, how their stories would intertwine, and how it would all end.
Amanda Quick is a talented author. She is now on my must-read list and I am excited to read more from her. I definitely recommend picking up The Other Lady Vanishes and falling into the exciting world of Adelaide Black
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LibraryThing member phyllis2779
Not bad for a Krentz book. There was a lot more emphasis on the "mystery" in this book than usual. The here, Jake, was only lightly sketched in. Both lead characters seemed paper thin, maybe because the emphasis was on the plot. But given that most of her main characters are pretty much
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paint-by-numbers, this might have made the book stronger if less gripping on an emotional level. Show Less
LibraryThing member Crystal_Casparis
This is the first book I've read by Amanda Quick. To be honest, I didn't have high hopes. While reading the ARC from FTR, I came across a lot of typos and errors. I agree with others who commented that there were too many characters. I almost made a list of all the people and their names and
I also thought it was interesting that the character went from rather PG in content to NC-17 in the last section after the two lead characters began their romantic relationship. I don't know if it's because it has been that long since I read a romance novel or if this was something to attribute to the author's style.
Overall, 3.25 out of 5.
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occupations so that I could keep track of them while reading. I did enjoy the story but some of the writing was repetitious when it came to dialogue and descriptions. I would read more by the author again, under this or her other pen names.I also thought it was interesting that the character went from rather PG in content to NC-17 in the last section after the two lead characters began their romantic relationship. I don't know if it's because it has been that long since I read a romance novel or if this was something to attribute to the author's style.
Overall, 3.25 out of 5.
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LibraryThing member nicolewbrown
Set right before World War II, this book is technically a sequel to The Lady Vanishes, but you don't have to read that book to read this book. Though characters from that book do show up in this book, you won't be lost. Adelaide Blake was being held in a mental hospital against her will. She was
But Adelaide escapes from the hospital and heads to Burning Cove, California and gets a job at a tea shop as a waitress and tisane maker. The shop gets a variety of clientele including famous celebrities and the famous Madam Zolanda the psychic to the stars who insists she come to her show and offers her two free tickets. Not wanting to anger the customer she agrees. Mr. Jake Truett a man who has been coming in every day and has already made a bad fumble of an attempt to ask her out on a date that failed miserably insists that he come with her.
Truett's wife committed suicide supposedly and she was a client of Zolanda who pocketed her diary which contained some incriminating items in it. Zolanda has been blackmailing her family over it and they asked Jake to get it back for them. After predicting a bloody death at her show that night the next day she is discovered by Jake and Adelaide on the ground outside her home as though she had jumped or been pushed off of her roof. A piece of a blue glass bottle stopper was found at the scene by Adelaide who recognized it from the hospital as from a container that held the drug. Zolanda's partner Thelma Legget took off with all of the blackmail material from multiple clients.
Meanwhile, Conrad Massey, Adelaide's supposed husband is desperate to find her because he needs her money and he's pressuring Dr. Gill the head of the hospital to find her. Dr. Gill knows where she is, but he knows that Adelaide had many friends including a PI friend, Raina, who would go looking for her if she disappeared. Dr. Paxton, a "doctor" who invented a diet drink is the co-conspirator to Dr. Gill and he is staying in Burning Cove keeping an eye on things and looking for a way to get Adelaide.
When Thelma tries to sell the blackmail material she winds up dead, but was it a blackmailer or someone part of the Daydream drug ring that killed her? Her and Zolanda were supposed to deliver Adelaide to Dr. Gill. Jake's interest in her was making that even more difficult. This book is great. Just when you think you have it all figured out Quick pulls the rug out from under you. The characters are wonderfully created. I especially liked Raina and hope to see a book devoted to her in the future. She's a tough woman who's been through something pretty bad back east and been made better for it. She's also a very smart and savvy person who can really handle herself and looks after those she cares about. This book is a well-spun story that could have stepped out off the screen of a noir film but is not written in the noir style. I really liked this book and I highly recommend it.
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put there by a man that may have been her husband. She doesn't remember marrying him. While in the hospital she was experimented on with a drug called Daydream that was meant to make her suggestible but instead causes violent hallucinations. She was the second patient to be experimented on with the drug. No one knows what happened to the first person.But Adelaide escapes from the hospital and heads to Burning Cove, California and gets a job at a tea shop as a waitress and tisane maker. The shop gets a variety of clientele including famous celebrities and the famous Madam Zolanda the psychic to the stars who insists she come to her show and offers her two free tickets. Not wanting to anger the customer she agrees. Mr. Jake Truett a man who has been coming in every day and has already made a bad fumble of an attempt to ask her out on a date that failed miserably insists that he come with her.
Truett's wife committed suicide supposedly and she was a client of Zolanda who pocketed her diary which contained some incriminating items in it. Zolanda has been blackmailing her family over it and they asked Jake to get it back for them. After predicting a bloody death at her show that night the next day she is discovered by Jake and Adelaide on the ground outside her home as though she had jumped or been pushed off of her roof. A piece of a blue glass bottle stopper was found at the scene by Adelaide who recognized it from the hospital as from a container that held the drug. Zolanda's partner Thelma Legget took off with all of the blackmail material from multiple clients.
Meanwhile, Conrad Massey, Adelaide's supposed husband is desperate to find her because he needs her money and he's pressuring Dr. Gill the head of the hospital to find her. Dr. Gill knows where she is, but he knows that Adelaide had many friends including a PI friend, Raina, who would go looking for her if she disappeared. Dr. Paxton, a "doctor" who invented a diet drink is the co-conspirator to Dr. Gill and he is staying in Burning Cove keeping an eye on things and looking for a way to get Adelaide.
When Thelma tries to sell the blackmail material she winds up dead, but was it a blackmailer or someone part of the Daydream drug ring that killed her? Her and Zolanda were supposed to deliver Adelaide to Dr. Gill. Jake's interest in her was making that even more difficult. This book is great. Just when you think you have it all figured out Quick pulls the rug out from under you. The characters are wonderfully created. I especially liked Raina and hope to see a book devoted to her in the future. She's a tough woman who's been through something pretty bad back east and been made better for it. She's also a very smart and savvy person who can really handle herself and looks after those she cares about. This book is a well-spun story that could have stepped out off the screen of a noir film but is not written in the noir style. I really liked this book and I highly recommend it.
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LibraryThing member muddyboy
Adelaide Blake is falsely put in a sanatorium and escapes to work in a tea shop. While there she meets Jake who will eventually help her unravel the multilayered mystery of why she was put there and while there she was a test subject on a new hallucinogenic drug. Before the smoke clears several
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people are murdered over the money making potential of the drug (daydream). I think the final twist is a little convoluted and the book should have ended twenty five pages earlier. Show Less
LibraryThing member Sheila1957
Adrienne is committed to an asylum by her husband. She escapes to a small town in California where she meets businessman Jacob who comes into the tea shop where she works. Hollywood's elite come to the town for rest and relaxation where they use the services of the psychic to the stars who lives
I enjoyed this book. It has been a while since I read Amanda Quick and did not realize she moved from Regency romances to historical romantic suspense. The flavor of the 1930's is captured in this book. I loved Adrienne and Jacob. The mystery was interesting and believable. I did figure out the motives of some involved. I want to read more in the series.
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there. Jacob and Adrienne are interested in the psychic, at first for different reasons, then to find out secrets from their pasts.I enjoyed this book. It has been a while since I read Amanda Quick and did not realize she moved from Regency romances to historical romantic suspense. The flavor of the 1930's is captured in this book. I loved Adrienne and Jacob. The mystery was interesting and believable. I did figure out the motives of some involved. I want to read more in the series.
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LibraryThing member wyvernfriend
Adelaide Blake escapes from a private sanitarium in 1930s California and finds herself in Burning Cove, California. She works in a tea shop dispensing herbal teas, often to the rich and famous but she's still wary of being found by her putative husband. When a psychic to the stars turns up dead
It's an interesting read, gallops along nicely, sometimes the relationships are a bit sketchy but I enjoyed the read. Adelaide is an interesting character and her librarian past is used well. Her knowledge of herbs is also well done and she's resourceful but also knows her limits. Jake is a bit of a sketch but they make a good couple, using each others strengths to help where they're weak. It does come together a little easily but overall I enjoyed the read.
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many of the secrets and lies comes to the fore and things will never be the same again. Adelaide doesn't know who to trust, really, but Jake Truett seems to be making himself very useful.It's an interesting read, gallops along nicely, sometimes the relationships are a bit sketchy but I enjoyed the read. Adelaide is an interesting character and her librarian past is used well. Her knowledge of herbs is also well done and she's resourceful but also knows her limits. Jake is a bit of a sketch but they make a good couple, using each others strengths to help where they're weak. It does come together a little easily but overall I enjoyed the read.
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LibraryThing member eurohackie
Even better than the first one!
This was a quick-paced whirlwind of a mystery/romance, centered on a patient who escaped from an asylum where she was basically being experimented on with an LSD-prototype. Her escape does not go unnoticed, unfortunately - by her husband, by her doctor, or by some
She winds up in Burning Cove, CA, trying to rebuild her life around her knowledge as an herbalist. She blends specially-made teas to order for the Hollywood celebrity set, and has gained some unwanted attention from various folks around town. She herself is interested in Jake Truett, another recent arrival who is said to be there recovering from a case of "exhausted nerves," but Adelaide knows different - she was locked in the asylum for having a nervous breakdown.
When the folks after her target Jake as well, they throw in their lot together to find out just what the hell is going on. As with the first book, the story is told from multiple perspectives - good guys, bad guys, and the guys who lurk in the gray areas. Ultimately, some plot twists do stretch credulity, but not enough to break my suspension of disbelief. This was a wild and wonderful ride!
There are a few cameos by characters from the first book - Irene Ward is making her way through the world as a crime reporter, and Raina Kirk has set up a PI business in Burning Cove. She's contracted by the shady and efficient Luther Pell (friend of Oliver Ward, the hero of the first book) to look into some liquor thefts at his club, and the two of them start dancing around each other. It appears their romance will be in the background of this series, which is a shame because they'd make very interesting lead characters.
I can't wait for the third book in the series!!
This was a quick-paced whirlwind of a mystery/romance, centered on a patient who escaped from an asylum where she was basically being experimented on with an LSD-prototype. Her escape does not go unnoticed, unfortunately - by her husband, by her doctor, or by some
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other very powerful people who want to flesh out the drug and use it for nefarious purposes.She winds up in Burning Cove, CA, trying to rebuild her life around her knowledge as an herbalist. She blends specially-made teas to order for the Hollywood celebrity set, and has gained some unwanted attention from various folks around town. She herself is interested in Jake Truett, another recent arrival who is said to be there recovering from a case of "exhausted nerves," but Adelaide knows different - she was locked in the asylum for having a nervous breakdown.
When the folks after her target Jake as well, they throw in their lot together to find out just what the hell is going on. As with the first book, the story is told from multiple perspectives - good guys, bad guys, and the guys who lurk in the gray areas. Ultimately, some plot twists do stretch credulity, but not enough to break my suspension of disbelief. This was a wild and wonderful ride!
There are a few cameos by characters from the first book - Irene Ward is making her way through the world as a crime reporter, and Raina Kirk has set up a PI business in Burning Cove. She's contracted by the shady and efficient Luther Pell (friend of Oliver Ward, the hero of the first book) to look into some liquor thefts at his club, and the two of them start dancing around each other. It appears their romance will be in the background of this series, which is a shame because they'd make very interesting lead characters.
I can't wait for the third book in the series!!
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LibraryThing member jennybeast
I like this series -- still enjoying the reflected Hollywood glam in Burning Cove, and the excellent depictions of the time period. Also, I really like the strong women. I have to admit, the dialogue in this one felt a little wooden, but I hope that there's more in this world to come.
LibraryThing member Lauren2013
The Other Lady Vanishes
4 Stars
Series note: While this book focuses on a new couple and plot, characters from book 1 do make an appearance and even play pivotal roles.
After witnessing a murder during her escape from a sanitarium, Adelaide Blake seeks refuge in Burning Cove and makes a new life for
Adelaide and Jake are a typical Quick couple who initially get off on the wrong foot, but soon find themselves working together to solve a mystery. They are both likable and have solid if not compeltely sizzling chemistry.
The suspense plot has some intense moments and a satisfying resolution. That said, there are several rather convoluted threads and it is not always easy to keep track of culprits and motives.
Overall, an entertaining sequel and I look forward to reading the next one.
4 Stars
Series note: While this book focuses on a new couple and plot, characters from book 1 do make an appearance and even play pivotal roles.
After witnessing a murder during her escape from a sanitarium, Adelaide Blake seeks refuge in Burning Cove and makes a new life for
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herself. But Adelaide's safe haven is disrupted when Madame Zolanda, the Hollywood psychic, is found dead. Adelaide joins forces with the enigmatic Jake Truatt to uncover the truth while her past catches up with her. Adelaide and Jake are a typical Quick couple who initially get off on the wrong foot, but soon find themselves working together to solve a mystery. They are both likable and have solid if not compeltely sizzling chemistry.
The suspense plot has some intense moments and a satisfying resolution. That said, there are several rather convoluted threads and it is not always easy to keep track of culprits and motives.
Overall, an entertaining sequel and I look forward to reading the next one.
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LibraryThing member Madison_Fairbanks
The Other Lady Vanishes by Amanda Quick
Burning Cove series #2. Historical romantic mystery. 1930’s. Can be read as a stand-alone.
Adelaide escaped from a private sanitarium where she was being held as a prisoner by her supposed husband. The doctors used an experimental drug on her as a test
Intriguing with deception and twists to lead the reader in several directions as the story unfolds.
I enjoyed the mystery as I realized that it was connected to the first book and understood a bit more. This story did conclude but there are still some questions. I’m looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
Burning Cove series #2. Historical romantic mystery. 1930’s. Can be read as a stand-alone.
Adelaide escaped from a private sanitarium where she was being held as a prisoner by her supposed husband. The doctors used an experimental drug on her as a test
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subject. Adelaide travels to Burning Cove to hide where she works in a tea shop. She meets Jake Truett, who says he’s in town to rest, but that’s not all he’s there for. When psychic Madame Zolanda is killed, Adelaide and Jake are pulled into an underground world of shadows and danger. Intriguing with deception and twists to lead the reader in several directions as the story unfolds.
I enjoyed the mystery as I realized that it was connected to the first book and understood a bit more. This story did conclude but there are still some questions. I’m looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
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Original publication date
2018-05-08
ISBN
9780399585340