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The murder house

  • David Ellis,
  • James Patterson

4.25

4 ratings

No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multimillion-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty, and rumored to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance. Detective Jenna Murphy used to consider herself a local, but she hasn't been back since she was a girl. Trying to escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career on the rocks, the former New York City cop hardly expects her lush and wealthy surroundings to be a hotbed of grisly depravity. But when a Hollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned Murder House, the gruesome crime scene rivals anything Jenna experienced in Manhattan. And what at first seems like an open and shut case turns out to have as many shocking secrets as the Murder House itself, as Jenna quickly realizes that the mansion's history is much darker than even the town's most salacious gossips could have imagined. As more bodies surface, and the secret that Jenna has tried desperately to escape closes in on her, she must risk her own life to expose the truth -- before the Murder House claims another victim.

Genres

  • Homicide
  • Women detectives
  • Police
  • Mansions
  • Blessing and cursing
  • Secrets
  • Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
  • Policewomen
  • Serial murder investigation
  • Fiction
  • Homecoming
  • Criminal investigation
  • Investigation
  • Murder
  • Fiction, thrillers
  • Fiction, thrillers, general
  • nyt:hardcover-fiction=2015-10-18
  • New York Times bestseller
  • nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2015-10-18
  • Thrillers
  • collectionid:jpsat
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About the authors

  • David Ellis

    4.00

    9 ratings · 62 works

  • James Patterson

    born 22 March 1947 Newburgh, Orange County

    3.85

    755 ratings · 1114 works

Editions

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    Grand Central Publishing

    2015-09

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    Little, Brown and Company

    2015

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    1st international mass market ed.

    Grand Central Pub.

    2016

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    Penguin

    2015

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Century

2001

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    Penguin Random House

    Jul 14, 2016

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    Century

    2015

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    Grand Central Publishing

    2016-12

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    Arrow

    Mar 26, 2001

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    Little, Brown and Company

    2015-09

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    Little, Brown and Company

    2015-09

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    Little, Brown and Company

    2015-09

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    Little, Brown & Company

    Dec 27, 2016

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    Turtleback Books

    Apr 05, 2016

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    Penguin Random House

    2015

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    First edition.

    2015-09

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    Penguin Random House

    2015

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    Penguin Random House

    2015

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    Penguin Random House

    2015

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    Penguin Random House

    2015

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    Penguin Random House

    2015

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    Penguin Random House

    2015

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    Little Brown & Company

    2015