All Things Cease to Appear

<b>“This literary thriller's complex narrative involves a cursed house, an unsolved murder and impeccable writing.” —<i>The New York Times Book Review •</i> <b><b>The basis for the Netflix film <i>Things Heard and Seen</i></b></b></b><br> <br>Recent transplants to the small town of Chosen, New York, the Clares have not received the warmest welcome; once a thriving dairy farm, their home is haunted by the tragedy that left the former owner’s three sons orphaned and adrift. <br> <br>Late one winter afternoon, professor George Clare knocks on his neighbor’s door with terrible news: he returned from work to find his wife, Catherine, murdered in their bed. Someone took an ax to her head while their three-year-old daughter, Franny, played alone in her room across the hall.  <br> <br>As one dark secret peels away to reveal others—and as the Clare marriage reveals itself to have a sinister darkness that rivals the farm’s history—Elizabeth Brundage offers a rich and complex portrait of the scars that can haunt a community for generations and the dark longings inside each and every one of us that drive us to do inexplicable things.