Quiet Dell (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) - Hardcover

In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It s the story of a serial killer s crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell" will be compared to In Cold Blood", but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity. --Stephen King

Quiet Dell" has all the elements of a murder mystery, but its emotional scope is larger and more complex. It combines a strange, hypnotic and poetic power with the sharp tones of documentary evidence. It offers a portrait of rural America in a time of crisis and dramatizes the lives of a number of characters who are fascinating and memorable. --Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn and The Testament of Mary

In Quiet Dell", Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it. --Elissa Schappell "Vanity Fair "

Jayne Anne Phillips is one of the finest pure stylists in contemporary literature, and she s found a story that sounds like a perfect match for her talents. --Jeff Baker "Portland Oregonian "

The truth of all of Phillips characterizations is what lies behind this careful novel s compelling momentum. --Brad Hooper "Booklist "

A mesmerizing novel drawn from the annals of infamous true crime Meticulous, engrossing and spellbinding. --Philip Turner "The Great Gray Bridge "

In 1931, Emily Thornhill, one of the few women in the Chicago press, covers the murders of Asta Eicher and her three children and, obsessed with finding out what happened to this beautiful family, allies herself with the man funding the investigation who is wracked with guilt for not saving Asta himself. (general fiction).