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Misty Wilmot, a former art student married into an old island family, writes a diary for her husband, who lies in a coma, as she starts painting again in a trance and the island's people seem to want something from her.
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Duma Key
Edgar Freemantle, a Minnesota building contractor who lost his right arm in a site accident, moves alone to Duma Key, a small island off the Florida coast, where he starts to paint, and finds his pictures can do things.
The Blue Hour
At an exhibition of the late artist Vanessa Chapman, a doctor recognises that one of her sculptures contains a human bone, and James Becker, the curator who manages her estate, goes to the remote tidal island where she lived to meet her old friend Grace.
The Drowning Girl
India Morgan Phelps, a painter in Providence who lives with schizophrenia, sets out to write down what really happened when she met Eva Canning, a woman she found on a road beside the Blackstone River one night.
Dark Places
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered on their Kansas farm and her testimony sent her brother Ben to prison, and twenty-five years later, broke, she agrees to revisit the case for a club of true-crime obsessives.
Choke
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout and sex addict, pays for his mother's care home by choking on purpose in restaurants and letting his rescuers send him money, until he learns something about his mother and himself.
Killing Commendatore
A portrait painter in a rural Japanese valley discovers a hidden painting and a mysterious pit, and both lead him towards a vanished man and the nature of inspiration.
How to Be Both
Two linked stories, of a Renaissance painter in Ferrara and of a grieving teenage girl in present-day Cambridge, can be read in either order, and both ask how we see and who we become.
Our Lady of Darkness
Franz Westen, a widowed writer of weird fiction in San Francisco, spots a pale figure waving from a hilltop he can see from his window, and comes across an old book on the haunting powers of great cities.
Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary Woodhouse and her husband Guy, a struggling actor, move into the Bramford, an old Manhattan apartment building with a dark history, and when Rosemary becomes pregnant, the elderly neighbours who have befriended them take an unusually close interest in the baby.
A Dark Matter
In 1966 a group of Madison teenagers followed a charismatic guru into a meadow for a ritual that left one boy dead. Decades later the writer Lee Harwell, married to one of them, sets out to learn what each of them saw.
Cat's Eye
A painter in 1980s Toronto revisits her childhood tormentors and discovers that the cruelties of girlhood shaped everything she became.
We Sold Our Souls
Kris Pulaski, once the guitarist of the heavy metal band Dürt Würk, works the night desk at a Pennsylvania motel, while the singer who broke up the band is a superstar about to start a farewell tour.