Katharine Beutner
Author
Language
English
Description
In Greek mythology, Alcestis is known as the good wife; she loved her husband so much that she died and went to the underworld in his place.
This compelling new take on the classic story gives voice to the woman behind the ideal: What were her true motivations? And what happened to Alcestis in the three days she spent in the afterlife?
2) Killingly
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Bertha Mellish, "the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl" at Mount Holyoke College, is missing. One cold November morning the junior is spotted walking through the Massachusetts woods; then, she vanishes. As a search team dredges the pond where she might have drowned, Bertha's panicked father and sister arrive at the campus desperate to find some clue as to her fate or state of mind. Bertha's best friend, Agnes, a scholarly loner studying medicine,...