Nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best NovelThe reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls â€œwonderfully

Jane Steele

Nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel

The reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls â€œwonderfully entertainingâ€ and USA Today describes as â€œsheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety.â€
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â€œA thrill ride of a novel. A must read for lovers ofÂ Jane Eyre, dark humor, and mystery.â€
â€”PopSugar.com

â€œReader, I murdered him.â€

A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre â€œlast confessionsâ€ of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess.

Burning to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position incognito and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new residentsâ€”the fascinating but caustic Mr. Thornfield, an army doctor returned from the Sikh Wars, and the gracious Sikh butler Mr. Sardar Singh, whose history with Mr. Thornfield appears far deeper and darker than they pretend. As Jane catches ominous glimpses of the pairâ€™s violent history and falls in love with the gruffly tragic Mr. Thornfield, she faces a terrible dilemma: Can she possess himâ€”body, soul, and secretsâ€”without revealing her own murderous past?

A satirical romance about identity, guilt, goodness, and the nature of lies, by a writer who Matthew Pearl calls â€œsuperstar-caliberâ€ and whose previous works Gillian Flynn declared â€œspectacular,â€ Jane Steele is a brilliant and deeply absorbing book inspired by Charlotte BrontÃ«â€™s classic Jane Eyre.
Country USA
Manufacturer G.P. Putnam's Sons
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-03-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780399169496

Country	USA
Manufacturer	G.P. Putnam's Sons
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-03-22
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780399169496

Jane Steele

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