Joanna Schaffhausen. (2017). The Vanishing Season: Ellery Hathaway Series, Book 1. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Joanna Schaffhausen. 2017. The Vanishing Season: Ellery Hathaway Series, Book 1. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Joanna Schaffhausen, The Vanishing Season: Ellery Hathaway Series, Book 1. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2017.

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   • bioText: JOANNA SCHAFFHAUSEN wields a mean scalpel, skills developed in her years studying neuroscience. She has a doctorate in psychology, which reflects her long-standing interest in the brain—how it develops and the many ways it can go wrong. Previously, she worked for ABC News, writing for programs such as World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and 20/20. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and daughter. She is also the author of The Vanishing Season, No Mercy, All the Best Lies, Every Waking Hour, Gone for Good, and Long Gone.
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Winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition, Joanna Schaffhausen's accomplished debut The Vanishing Season will grip readers from the opening page to the stunning conclusion.
Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only one who lived.
When three people disappear from her town in three years—all around her birthday—Ellery fears someone knows her secret. Someone very dangerous. Her superiors dismiss her concerns, but Ellery knows the vanishing season is coming and anyone could be next. She contacts the one man she knows will believe her: the FBI agent who saved her from a killer all those years ago.
Agent Reed Markham made his name and fame on the back of the Coben case, but his fortunes have since turned. His marriage is in shambles, his bosses think he's washed up, and worst of all, he blew a major investigation. When Ellery calls him, he can't help but wonder: sure, he rescued her, but was she ever truly saved? His greatest triumph is Ellery's waking nightmare, and now both of them are about to be sucked into the past, back to the case that made them...with a killer who can't let go.

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   • source: The Richmond-Times Dispatch
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     "[A] stunning debut. Schaffhausen devises a clever storyline, complete with an ingenious pattern, a skillful piece of misdirection and a conclusion that simultaneously troubles and satisfies."

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   • source: The Washington Book Review
   • content: "A gripping and powerful read. It is what we call an edge-of-your-seat, rollercoaster of a thriller. You will not be able to put it down before you finish it."
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   • source: Associated Press
   • content: "The Vanishing Season won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Novel Competition. Given the precise prose, the suspenseful plot and the emotionally tortured characters, to say nothing of an irresistible basset hound named Bump, it's easy to see why."
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   • source: Huffington Post
   • content: "Crime fanatics and mystery lovers will love this story. Schaffhausen really nails the genre and the character development beautifully."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "Powerful...the complex plot and affecting characters--especially gritty survivor Ellie and her basset hound, Bump--make for some nail-bitingly tense thrills."
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   • source: RT Book Reviews
   • content: "Schaffhausen's debut is a fantastic, convoluted thriller that will have her audience on the edge of their seats, taking notes to catch every crumb of a clue. Ellery and Reed, her protagonists, are complex yet brilliantly believable, competent yet very imperfectly human.The villain is both evil and cunning. The storytelling is exceptional and the dialogue is powerful. This chilling tale will have readers guessing till the end! This one is sure to end upon the bestseller list."
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     September 4, 2017
     In Schaffhausen’s powerful if implausible first novel, Ellery “Ellie” Hathaway is the only cop in Woodbury, Mass., convinced that the baffling disappearances from the small town—one every July for the past three years—are connected to each other, and to sadistic imprisoned serial killer Francis Michael Coben. She’s also the only one of Coben’s victims to survive. Fearing the worst as the July window once again looms, Ellie reluctantly reaches out to the one person she thinks might be willing to help: FBI profiler Reed Markham, who cracked the Coben case 14 years earlier and rescued her. The other members of the Woodbury force are less than pleased by Markham’s arrival, especially when it’s followed within days by a grisly present on Ellie’s porch—a severed hand, Coben’s signature. Although the book’s eventual big reveal feels contrived, until then the complex plot and affecting characters—especially gritty survivor Ellie and her basset hound, Bump—make for some nail-bitingly tense thrills.

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     September 15, 2017
     The survivor of a childhood kidnapping investigates a series of missing persons who may be tied to her own history.Inspired by her traumatic past as the victim of a kidnapping, Abby Hathaway, who now goes by her middle name, Ellery, serves as a member of Massachusetts' Woodbury Police Department in an effort to protect others. But a string of missing persons incidents in her jurisdiction has Ellery worried that she's not as able to protect her fellow citizens as much she would like. Bea Nesbit, Mark Roy, and Shannon Blessing could just be a string of runaways, but to Ellery it seems obvious that their disappearances are signs of something much worse. Ellery's insight into the riddle may be tied to the cards she gets in the mail from someone who appears to know secrets of her past she's tried very hard to hide. Not sure what to do, Ellery contacts Reed Markham, the FBI agent who cracked the case Ellery was once at the heart of and rescued her from sadistic Francis Coben, who was almost certainly going to kill her. Reed has been more fixated on his work than his family, causing no good for either, so he welcomes Ellery's help on an informal basis. He shares her fear that the disappearances may be following Coben's original pattern and her conviction that they need to act soon before someone else vanishes. The biggest obstacle in their investigation is Markham's suspicion that Ellery may be not just an investigator, but a suspect, but this idea isn't given enough weight to intensify the suspense. Though it reads more like a dabbling in the genre than a fully realized thriller, Schaffhausen's debut gives evidence that she may develop into an author more in control of readers' emotional attention in future work.

     COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     November 15, 2017
     Her boss can't figure out why police officer Ellery Hathaway insists there's a pattern in the disappearances of two residents of Woodbury, Massachusetts, over the past few years. What Ellery's not saying is that she is a violent-crime survivor herself and has received an unsigned birthday card on the anniversary of her own abduction whenever a townsperson goes missing. Fearing another neighbor is about to be taken, she asks the FBI agent who found her 14 years ago to help her unlock the mystery. When he arrives, however, he finds a woman who is not dealing with her dark past as effectively as she thinks she is. Agent Reed Markham hasn't weathered the last decade and a half unscathed, either, despite his well-publicized rescue of Ellery and subsequent publishing of a best-selling book about the case. Winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America award for First Crime Novel Competition, this gripping thriller will be sure to please fans of Karin Slaughter. Schaffhausen is a science editor who has worked as an editorial producer for ABC News.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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      November 1, 2017
      

      On her 14th birthday, Abigail Hathaway became the 17th young woman abducted by notorious serial killer Frances Coben and the only one to survive. Fourteen years later, Hathaway--using her middle name, Ellery, to hide her past--is a cop in a small Connecticut town who's concerned about the disappearances of three people over the past three summers. At the same time, she's been receiving anonymous cards on her birthday. Unable to arouse her police chief's concern without revealing her past, Hathaway calls FBI agent Reed Markham, who rescued her from Coben. Markham is currently on leave after botching a case, as well as having troubles at home, but he responds to her request for assistance. Together, they dig into the missing-persons cases that seem to center on her, wondering if a copycat serial killer is at work. VERDICT Winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition, this debut thriller occasionally strains credulity, notably in Hathaway's keeping her past hidden, and seasoned mystery readers are likely to spot the perpetrator before she and Markham do. Still, it's a nice diversion for readers with a taste for serial killers. [See Prepub Alert, 6/12/17.]--Michele Leber, Arlington, VA

      Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      July 1, 2017
      

      As the only person to have survived the evil intentions of a serial killer, Ellery Hathaway ought to feel relieved. But for three years now, people from her town have disappeared around her birthday, the date of her kidnapping years ago, and soon she's in touch with the FBI agent who snatched her to safety. Winner of the 2016 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award.

      Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only one who lived.
When three people disappear from her town in three years—all around her birthday—Ellery fears someone knows her secret. Someone very dangerous. Her superiors dismiss her concerns, but Ellery knows the vanishing season is coming and anyone could be next. She contacts the one man she knows will believe her: the FBI agent who saved her from a killer all those years ago.
Agent Reed Markham made his name and fame on the...

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