Sanctuary by Nora Roberts

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 . . .

Reviewed by tellemonstar on

4 of 5 stars

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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.

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