Sanctuary

by Nora Roberts

Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she'd escaped the house called Sanctuary long ago. She'd spent her loneliest years there after the sudden, shattering disappearance of her mother. But now someone is sending Jo strange, candid pictures, culminating in the most shocking portrait of all - a photo of her mother, naked, beautiful and dead.

Jo returns home to face her bitterly estranged family, only to find an unexpected chance for happiness in the form of architect Nathan Delaney. But while Jo and Nathan hope to lay the past to rest, a sinister presence is watching from the shadows. And Jo will soon learn there is no peace at Sanctuary . . .

• ISBN10: 0748110224
• ISBN13: 9780748110223
• Publish Date: 2 October 2008 (first published 17 March 1997)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Piatkus Books
• Edition: Digital original
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 496
• Language: English

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.