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The Women in White

Sarah Pekkanen · Mystery & Thriller

73 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

psychological thrillerclosed circle
psychological thrillersupernatural horror
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#9 This Month · #134 All Time

About this book

In the new thriller from #1 New York Times Bestseller Sarah Pekkanen, a young divorcee accepts a caretaker job for an elderly widow and is drawn into a decades-old mystery of four college girls who vanished after volunteering for parapsychology experiments. When Riley Bell lands a caretaker job for Betty Sadler, she imagines quiet afternoons of tea and card games - and a chance to heal from her shattering divorce. Instead, she steps into a house that feels suspended in time, with every lampshade, cocktail coupe and record album exactly as it was in 1964. No television. No microwave. And Betty has never even heard of a cell phone. For Betty, there’s only one thing left she wants in life: To locate her three best friends who seemingly disappeared after they all volunteered for mysterious experiments in their college’s psychology department. No clues, no contact, just an unanswered mystery that has shadowed Betty for six decades. Inspired by the real-life research once conducted at Duke U

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