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Susan Scarf Merrell

Biography

Susan Scarf Merrell

Susan Scarf Merrell is the author of a previous novel, A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, and a nonfiction work, THE ACCIDENTAL BOND: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relationships. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Literature at Stony Brook Southampton and is fiction editor of TSR: The Southampton Review.

Susan Scarf Merrell

Books by Susan Scarf Merrell

by Susan Scarf Merrell - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

When a young graduate student and his pregnant wife --- Fred and Rose Nemser --- move into the home of author Shirley Jackson and her husband, literary critic and professor Stanley Edgar Hyman, they are quickly cast under the magnetic spell of their brilliant and proudly unconventional hosts. Rose, however, senses something amiss --- something to do with nightly unanswered phone calls and inscrutable accounts of a long-missing female student.