- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0375507760
- ISBN-13: 978-0375507762
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 382,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Twins Marina and Susannah used to spend their nights 'nightspinning', talking to each other telepathetically through until their teens when Marina started 'blocking' Susannah out. Slowly they drifted apart, leading separate lives until the sudden, violent death of Marina at the hands of an uncaught and unknown murderer. Two years on, Susannah starts to receive anonymous flowers and telephone calls. Then her car is graffiteed. Worse is to follow. Trapped in a basement in a sudden powercut she hears the humming of a childhood song but no-one is there... It soon transpires that she is being stalked in an identical way to Marina in the lead-up to her death and so begins a hunt and chase for a madman intent on killing her. Lucretia Grindle's lyrical writing lulls the reader into a false sense of security, with her reminiscences of long, hot Southern summers. But suddenly she springs terror to the page, catching the reader unaware and thus enhancing the thrill of the plot. A gripping, well-written book with a plot spanning Southern childhood and modern-day Philadelphia. - Lucy Watson
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“Without so much as a motion or a sound, Marina and I are weaving words. We are sliding them along the bar of light from the hall that filters under the door. We are sending phrases, paragraphs, laughter, faster and faster, like flights of moths across the dark space of the room. Braiding the strands of our secret cocoon, we are nightspinning.”
Growing up in rural Georgia, Susannah and her twin sister, Marina, silently communicated in a secret language they called “nightspinning.” But as they grew older, Susannah tired of having a doppelgänger, particularly one who could read her every thought. After college, when their mother died, Susannah made her escape.
Years later, now an up-and-coming restaurant designer living in a handsome Philadelphia brownstone, Susannah has left the past safely behind her. But in doing so, she’s also left Marina behind, and this betrayal fills her with guilt. Then Marina is brutally murdered, and Susannah is haunted by inexplicable events: a funereal flower arrangement arrives from an anonymous admirer; she recognizes a song, not heard since childhood, emanating from the dark silence of her basement; she awakens one morning to find that a lock of her hair has been snipped off and taped to her bathroom mirror.
Terrified to learn that similar events preceded Marina’s murder, Susannah is forced to ask herself: Is her sister’s killer now coming after her? Is she imagining a conspiracy where only coincidence exists? Or is Marina nightspinning from beyond the grave? Desperate to uncover the truth and escape her sister’s fate, Susannah grimly sets out to investigate on her own, fleeing her carefully orchestrated life and returning to an abandoned Georgia farmhouse to reveal the long-buried secrets that created a killer. A chilling, hypnotic read, The Nightspinners is psychological suspense at its best.
Growing up in rural Georgia, Susannah and her twin sister, Marina, silently communicated in a secret language they called “nightspinning.” But as they grew older, Susannah tired of having a doppelgänger, particularly one who could read her every thought. After college, when their mother died, Susannah made her escape.
Years later, now an up-and-coming restaurant designer living in a handsome Philadelphia brownstone, Susannah has left the past safely behind her. But in doing so, she’s also left Marina behind, and this betrayal fills her with guilt. Then Marina is brutally murdered, and Susannah is haunted by inexplicable events: a funereal flower arrangement arrives from an anonymous admirer; she recognizes a song, not heard since childhood, emanating from the dark silence of her basement; she awakens one morning to find that a lock of her hair has been snipped off and taped to her bathroom mirror.
Terrified to learn that similar events preceded Marina’s murder, Susannah is forced to ask herself: Is her sister’s killer now coming after her? Is she imagining a conspiracy where only coincidence exists? Or is Marina nightspinning from beyond the grave? Desperate to uncover the truth and escape her sister’s fate, Susannah grimly sets out to investigate on her own, fleeing her carefully orchestrated life and returning to an abandoned Georgia farmhouse to reveal the long-buried secrets that created a killer. A chilling, hypnotic read, The Nightspinners is psychological suspense at its best.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I stumbled across Lucretia Grindle's Nightspinners last week and couldn't put it down. After a long history of reading every thriller and crime novel that I could put my hands on, I found Nightspinner exciting and gripping. The book has an amazing twist that for the first time in a long time of reading predictable thrillers came as a real surprise. It is well written, complete and incredibly succinct in delivering each stage of the story. For anyone who has not yet discovered Lucretia Grindle this is an amazing start!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I enjoyed 'The Faces of Angels' a lot, and much more recently came across 'The Night-Spinners', which I believe was written first. In atmosphere and suspense, and even some elements in the plot and structure, the two books are quite similar. I think they are more than just spooky novels and are genuinely well-written. Susannah is tied to her murdered sister Marina by a shared past and the fact that, as twins, they have been and perhaps still are in each other's heads. What led to the death of Marina - strange 'phone calls, the unexpected arrival of flowers, apparently mindless damage done to her belongings - seems to be paralleled in events which are happening to Susannah. There are a number of startling and frightening events (Grindle is very good at ending chapters with a nasty surprise) and enough well-concealed red herrings to put you off the trail of the real culprit, and the book ends, not tidily with all loose ends dealt with, but in an open-ended way which seems more true to life. It is thoroughly readable and gives great pleasure - a fine book of its kind.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It doesnt really matter who did it of course. It hardly ever does. It is the journey that matters. That and what is gained and who is met along the way - by the characters and the reader who walks with them. And here you do not want the journey to end. You do not really want to find out who did it because after that you know you must leave the bleak threatening cityscape and beguiling treacherous farm country all behind. And that is a shame because you want to know what happens next to the writer's and your imagination's bruised heroine. But before then, if you require good writing and indelible atmosphere with your crime, you cannot read this and be disappointed
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I read this novel straight after reading and loving 'The Faces of Angels'. Although I found 'The Faces of Angels' a superior novel, taken on its own merits this too was a good... Read more
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Very creepy tale
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