He proves an able-and attractive-fellow investigator before a deadly influenza epidemic isolates Portis House, leaving it prey to a past that will not rest. As fear drives her search for explanations, Kitty bonds with a man known only as Patient Sixteen. Kitty learns that the eerie house’s original owners have mysteriously disappeared and that the patients suffer the same terrifying nightmare as well as a propensity for similar suicides. Hoping the remote location will protect her, she wins the job using falsified credentials. James’s atmospheric third ghostly mystery set in post-WWI England (after 2013’s An Inquiry into Love and Death), Kitty Weekes is fleeing her abusive father when she learns of a nursing vacancy at Portis House, a grand estate now housing shell-shocked veterans.
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