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In one of America's most completed and acclaimed fiction writers, a spectacularly riveting novel predicated on a real-life multiple murder by way of a con man who preyed on widows - a tale that has haunted Jayne Anne Phillips for more than four years. In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, mother of three, is lonesome and despairing, pressed for money after the quick fatality of her hubby. She begins to get seductive words from a chivalrous, chic man called Harry Forces, who promises to cherish and protect her, eventually to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks later, all Eichers are dead. Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago press, becomes deeply committed to understanding what took place to this beautiful family, especially to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting woman with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Bold and intrepid, Emily allies herself with a banker who's wracked by guilt for not keeping Asta. Emily would go to West Virginia to protect the murder trial and to investigate the story herself, accompanied by a lovely and unconventional photographer who is equally attracted to the case. Motivated by secrets of their own, the heroic character types in this wonderful tale will stop at nothing at all to ensure that Forces is convicted. Mesmerizing and deeply moving, Calm Dell is a tragedy, a love account, and a head to de push of obsession and imagination in one of America's most celebrated writers.
