A must read for lovers of Jane Eyre, dark humor, and mystery.'-PopSugar. Thornfield, she faces a terrible dilemma: Can she possess him-body, soul, and secrets-without revealing her own murderous past? When she flees, she leaves behind the corpses of her tormentors. And like Jane Eyre, they call her wicked - but in her case, she fears the accusation is true. As Jane catches ominous glimpses of the pair's violent history and falls in love with the gruffly tragic Mr. Like the heroine of the novel she adores, Jane Steele suffers cruelly at the hands of her aunt and schoolmaster. Thornfield appears far deeper and darker than they pretend. Thornfield, an army doctor returned from the Sikh Wars, and the gracious Sikh butler Mr. Reader, I quickly fell in love with this story set in. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess.īurning to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position incognito and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new residents-the fascinating but caustic Mr. What happens when you take a classic story like Jane Eyre and make it more bloody, fill it with a lost treasure, throw in a few murders, and a girl filled with fiery vengeance You get a book like Jane Steele, by Lyndsay Faye. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr.

After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre 'last confessions' of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. 'Reader, I murdered him.'Ī sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. The reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls 'wonderfully entertaining' and USA Today describes as 'sheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety'-nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

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