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The Nightspinners (Hardcover)

by Lucretia Grindle (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan (7 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 033398918X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333989180
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 627,010 in Books (See Bestsellers 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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A secret history, a menacing future, and a killer who knows too much...'It is our secret. No one guesses that we are nightspinners. No one knows how much we talk, or about the words we weave between us. We work in silence, and when our mother eases the door open she rewards us for what she assumes is our sleep. She whispers "You are such a good girl." She says it just once, to both of us, as if we were one. Which, in fact, we are. We are two peas in a pod. Marina and me. Mirror images. We are twins. Twenty years later Marina is dead, horrifically murdered, her body discovered only three days after the killer struck in her apartment in Alexandria, Virginia. But what haunts Susannah the most is the phone call she never returned, the last chance she would ever be given to make amends with her estranged twin sister. Until, that is, Susannah herself becomes victim to a stalker, someone who pursues her with an uncanny knowledge of her fears, her regrets and her secret history. And so Susannah is forced into a journey back to her childhood home, to the idyllic past she shared with Marina where, very possibly, clues to the murder quietly lie..

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling & Gripping Read, 28 Mar 2007
By A. J. Hodges (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Nightspinners (Paperback)
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!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars suspense and some excellent atmospheric writing here, 24 Nov 2007
By Mr. Ian A. Macfarlane "almac1975" (Fife, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Out of the past...., 24 Sep 2007
By Colin Ferris (Cranbrook, England) - See all my reviews
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars A slow burner!
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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