"Madeline Dare is like that wild smart-mouthed friend who blows into town, sweeps you off into a knife-edge adventure you never saw coming, and makes you laugh out loud even at the darkest, most intense moments. I can't wait to meet her again." --Tana French, New York Times bestselling author of In the Woods Recently settled in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts, Madeline Dare now teaches at the Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for disturbed teenagers. But behind its ornate gates, she discovers a disorienting world where students and teachers alike must submit to the founder's bizarre therapeutic regimen. A chilling event confirms Maddie's worst suspicions, leading her to an even darker secret that lies at the academy's very heart. Now cut off from the outside world, Maddie must join forces with a small band of the school's most violently rebellious students--kids who, despite their troubled grip on reality, may well prove to be her only chance of survival.

The Crazy School (A Madeline Dare Novel, 2)

Literature & Fiction

Read, Cornelia

Contemporary

Grand Central Publishing

"Cornelia Read's darkest, most passionate, and most poignant book yet." -Tana French, New York Times Bestselling Author The smart-mouthed but sensitive runaway socialite Madeline Dare is shocked when she discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three-year-old boy in her own weed-ridden family cemetery outside Manhattan. Determined to see that justice is served, she finds herself examining her own troubled personal history, and the sometimes hidden, sometimes all-too-public class and racial warfare that penetrates every level of society in the savage streets of New York City during the early 1990s. Madeline is aided in her efforts by a colorful assemblage of friends, relatives, and new acquaintances, each one representing a separate strand of the patchwork mosaic city politicians like to brag about. The result is an unforgettable narrative that relates the causes and consequences of a vicious crime to the wider relationships that connect and divide us all.

Invisible Boy (A Madeline Dare Novel, 3)

United States

Madeline Dare trades New York's gritty streets for the tree-lined avenues of Boulder, Colorado when her husband Dean lands a promising job. Madeline, now a full-time homemaker and mother to beautiful toddler twin girls, has achieved everything she thought she always wanted, but with her husband constantly on the road, she's fighting a losing battle against the Betty Friedan riptide of suburban/maternal exhaustion, angst, and sheer loneliness. A new freelance newspaper gig helps her get her mojo back, but Boulder isn't nearly as tranquil as it seems: there's a serial arsonist at large in the city. As Madeline closes in on the culprit, the fires turn deadly-and the stakes tragically personal. She'll need every ounce of strength and courage she has to keep the flames from reaching her own doorstep, threatening all she holds most dear.

Valley of Ashes (A Madeline Dare Novel, 4)

Valley of Ashes (Madeline Dare)

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

From the acclaimed author of A FIELD OF DARKNESS comes another compelling novel featuring the acerbic and memorable voice of ex-debutante Madeline Dare. Madeline Dare has finally escaped rust-belt Syracuse, New York, for the lush Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts. After her husband's job offer falls through, Maddie signs on as a teacher at the Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for disturbed teenagers. Behind the academy's ornate gates, she discovers a disturbing realm where students and teachers alike must submit to the founder's bizarre therapeutic regimen. From day one, Maddie feels uneasy about smooth-talking Dr. Santangelo but when she questions his methods, she's appalled to find that her fellow teachers would rather turn on each other than stand up for themselves, much less protect the students in their care. A chilling event confirms Maddie's worst suspicions, then hints at an even darker secret history, one that twines through the academy's very heart. Cut off from the outside world, Maddie must join forces with a small band of the school's most violently rebellious students-kids whose troubled grip on reality may well prove to be her only chance of salvation.

The Crazy School

Madeline Dare would be the first to tell you her money is so old there's none left. A former socialite from an aristocratic family in decline, Maddie is a tough-talking, would-be journalist exiled to the rust belt of upstate New York. Her prospects for changing her dreary lifestyle seem dim--until a set of dog tags found at a decades-old murder site is linked to her family. Shocked into action, Maddie embarks on a search that takes her from the derelict smokestacks of Syracuse to the posh mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast. But instead of the warm refuge of home, this prodigal daughter soon uncovers dark, sinister secrets that will violently challenge everything she believes in and holds dear.

A Field of Darkness (Madeline Dare, Book 1) (A Madeline Dare Novel, 1)

[Read by Hillary Huber] Madeline Dare a tough-talking, shotgun-toting ex-debutante is not your average detective. Syracuse, New York, her current home, isn't where she thought she would be at age 25. She was born into high society and had visions of an upper-crust life. But when true love called, in the form of her handsome machinist husband, Dean, she couldn't resist. But when she discovers mysterious circumstances linking her favorite cousin to a murder twenty years ago, she begins investigating, and what she finds may just kill her.

A Field of Darkness

Blackstone Audiobooks

Business & Money

Married outside of her blue-blood class to an investor who takes frequent business trips, Maddie Dare endures long weeks alone and becomes involved in an investigation to clear her favorite cousin from a double murder charge.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Thorndike Pr

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The Crazy School (A Madeline Dare Novel, 2)

Invisible Boy (A Madeline Dare Novel, 3)

Invisible Boy (A Madeline Dare Novel, 3)

Valley of Ashes (A Madeline Dare Novel, 4)

Valley of Ashes (Madeline Dare)

The Crazy School

A Field of Darkness (Madeline Dare, Book 1) (A Madeline Dare Novel, 1)

A Field of Darkness

A Field of Darkness

A Field of Darkness