Sanctuary

by Nora Roberts

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a seductive and suspenseful novel of dangerous liaisons and family betrayals…

Photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she'd escaped the house called Sanctuary long ago. She'd spent her loneliest years there, after the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. Yet the sprawling inn on an island off the Georgia coast continues to haunt her dreams. And now, even more haunting are the pictures someone is sending her: strange close-ups and candids, culminating in the most shocking portrait of all—a photo of her mother—naked, beautiful, and dead.

Now Jo must return to the island, and to her bitterly estranged family. With the help of Nathan Delaney—who was on the island the summer her mother disappeared—Jo hopes to learn the truth about the tragic past. But Sanctuary may be the most dangerous place of all.

• ISBN10: 0515122734
• ISBN13: 9780515122732
• Publish Date: 1 May 1998 (first published 17 March 1997)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Jove Publications
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 528
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780515122732

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

coming home isn't always easy Jo Ellen Hathaway left home years ago to pursue a career as a photographer in New York but stress and a stalker sending her pictures, including one that appears to be her mother, dead.  Her mother vanished years ago leaving her grieving father to deal with three children, which he did, badly.
Now she feels that she has to face her past, home means visiting old wounds.  Her stalker seems to have followed her but she's finding solace with Nathan Delaney who is licking the wounds of a failed marriage and secrets that he found after his father died.
It's fairly typically Nora Roberts, these days she would have stretched the romances out over more books.

[tellemonstar]

I love Nora Roberts's suspense titles. This one was especially creepy with a hint of I'm-pretty-sure-I-know-who-the-killer-is-but-then-now-I'm-not-so-sure thrown in to keep you guessing.

Jo Ellen Hathaway is a successful photographer. Someone is sending her photos of herself that she didn't know were taken. One final picture - this time of her long-ago disappeared mother - sets her world upside down. Forced to head back to her childhood home, Sanctuary, for her own sanity, Jo Ellen must also face the demons within her own family and the huge loss they all share.

With a killer determined to recreate 'perfection' stalking Jo Ellen even in the sanctuary of her childhood home, suspicion is cast on friends old and new, especially when her lover, Nathan reveals the true reason he ame back to Sanctuary.

A well-written, suspense-filled mystery with a little romance and family drama thrown in to even it out, Sanctuary is a great weekend read.