num_pages: 340
description: The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s Californiawhere the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets...After escaping from a private sanitarium Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove California desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide his exhaustion is just a cover.In Burning Cove no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers gangsters and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda. Adelaide and Jake know better than to fall for her kind of con. But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed they'll be drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection.Neither Adelaide or Jake can predict that in the shadowy underground they'll find connections to the woman Adelaide used to beand uncover the specter of a killer who's been real all along...
language: English
title: The Other Lady Vanishes
publisher: Berkley