{"product_id":"a-vermont-mystery-thomas-s-j-reese-9780595448456","title":"A Vermont Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe demented loon is at the far end of the lake; the Albany detective is at the bottom of Old Maid's cove. The historic Hyde Manor sits forlornly at lake side and waits for guests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJeanne Sands comes to Vermont to paint the autumn colors. TH Ryder plans to spend a sabbatical through the winter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStaying at opposite ends of the Manor, they begin to hear sounds, voices in other empty rooms. Jeanne investigates and learns that 10 years before, the Browns were shot point blank at the dinner table in a gruesome family killing. Blood on the wall, no known motive, never solved.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJeanne reads in the old newspapers the various accounts of the murders and learns that the adopted daughter, Nancy Stokes, was considered a person of interest. But Nancy vanished without a trace. Jeanne reads that Nancy was adopted from the nearby Albany School of Troubled Girls.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJeanne and TH pay the Albany Institute a visit and hear that Nancy Stokes was a strange girl, remarkable, perhaps a mystic, maybe a Nephilim, other worldly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNell, the Director, tells Jeanne and TH that the former Institute Director, Dr. Bollinger, was in love with Nancy. He had recently retired and moved to the Hyder Manor that spring. Bollinger was taking six months to write a history of Central Vermont and the historic Hyde Manor. One morning, he hanged himself from the second floor balcony.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBollinger left a considerable estate and most of it to Nancy Stokes, if she can be found alive. Nell hired an Albany detective to discover what happened to Nancy, but the investigator disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJeanne and TH return to the Manor and visit the strange man across the way in the boarded-up house trailer. Gene used to be the Hyde Manor maintenance man. He tells Jeanne and TH he also loved Nancy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGene warns them that Nancy has returned to the Manor and that they are in danger.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe haunting has begun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas S. J. Reese, Gary Pederson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0595448453\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595448456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Thomas S. J. Reese","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059378483455,"sku":"9780595448456","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a55a7fd9-c924-42eb-870e-cd83f5ba6257.jpg?v=1685057866","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-vermont-mystery-thomas-s-j-reese-9780595448456","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}