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The Lamplighters
A Mystery Novel by Emma Stonex
Subgenres:
- Historical Mystery,
- Psychological Suspense,
- Cornwall
This book is for you if you're into...
- Mysteries set in remote, atmospheric lighthouses
- Stories unraveling secrets through both past and present timelines
- Haunting disappearances that leave more questions than answers
From Little Stack
Our next book takes us to the place we had our first family holiday: Cornwall on the south coast of England. Based on a true story, The Lamplighters tells the story of three missing men, their warring widows, ghostly goings-on and the power and mystery of the sea.
Told in dual timelines, we follow the men in the days leading up to their disappearance and then their widows twenty years later as they are interviewed by a writer who hopes to finally discover what really happened on that frigid winter day.
This extraordinary debut is told so evocatively that you will smell the salty sea air, see the waves and hear the siren song of the sea as she whispers her secrets. A must read if you like your historical fiction with a bit of mystery and the supernatural.
Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote tower miles from the Cornish coast—and about the wives who were left behind.
What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the swell like a finger of light, the salt-scratched tower stands lonely and magnificent.
It's New Year's Eve, 1972, when a boat pulls up to the Maiden Rock lighthouse with relief for the keepers. But no one greets them. When the entrance door, locked from the inside, is battered down, rescuers find an empty tower. A table is laid for a meal not eaten. The Principal Keeper's weather log describes a storm raging round the tower, but the skies have been clear. And the clocks have all stopped at 8:45.
Two decades later, the keepers' wives are visited by a writer determined to find the truth about the men's disappearance. Moving between the women's stories and the men's last weeks together in the lighthouse, long-held secrets surface and truths twist into lies as we piece together what happened, why, and who to believe.
In her riveting and suspenseful novel, Emma Stonex writes a story of isolation and obsession, of reality and illusion, and of what it takes to keep the light burning when all else is swallowed by dark.
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