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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Child in the Burned Photograph
CLARA VOSS : Secrets that Never Sleep
Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35004475
EAN: 9798185653937
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Zustellung: Fr, 02.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 46.25
Beschreibung
A burned photograph. A missing child. A family secret someone was willing to kill to protect. Clara Voss restores damaged photographs for a living. She knows how to read fire, water, torn paper, and the small visual lies people leave behind when they try to erase the truth. But when an anonymous envelope arrives at her Chicago studio containing a scorched photograph of a lakeside house and a child who looks exactly like Clara at six years old, her own past becomes the case she cannot walk away from. On the back of the photograph is a message that should not exist. You were not the only child. Clara's search leads her to Briar Lake, a quiet town built on silence, where the burned remains of Briar House still haunt the shoreline and everyone seems to recognize a name Clara was never supposed to remember: Lena. As she uncovers fragments of old police files, missing welfare records, therapy tapes, and photographs someone tried to destroy, Clara realizes the official story of the 1998 fire was a lie. There were children at Briar House. One was declared dead without a body. One was hidden under another name. One became Clara Voss. And the child in the burned photograph may not be who Clara thinks it is. As a present-day murder tears open the old cover-up, Clara is forced to confront the people who claimed they saved her: a controlling adoptive mother, a psychiatrist who locked away her memories, a sheriff who controlled the evidence, and a man who has been standing just outside the frame from the beginning. Dark, atmospheric, and emotionally charged, The Child in the Burned Photograph is a psychological crime thriller about memory, identity, family secrets, institutional betrayal, and the fragile evidence survivors leave behind. Perfect for readers who enjoy slow-burn mysteries, small-town secrets, cold cases, unreliable memory, forensic clues, and literary crime fiction with a haunting emotional twist. Book Two in the Clara Voss Series.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Elise Varende
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 506