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Book about an actress that was in a house fire as a child and pushed down the stairs [s]
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I read this a long time ago and have been trying to find it for the last couple years. I believe the main character is an actress and her parents died in a housefire when she was a little girl. She was pushed by someone down the stairs and found at the bottom like a broken doll. As an adult she has an Uncle or Gardian that was friends with her parents and she went back to the house, I think to live, and try to remember what happened. Not trying to ruin the book but as I recall it was the Uncle/Gardian that had killed her parents and pushed her down the stairs. I even think the title was something like "broken doll" but I can't find anything online like it. Any ideas? Possibly a romance book?
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Kind of sounds like something I might've read by V. C. Andrews as a kid maybe. Sounds like it'd be an interesting book, hope you find it :)
Oh how I wish it was V.C. Andrews! But no, I used to own all her books (when it was actually her writing them) but though the storyline is similar to My Sweet Audrina, that is not the book I am looking for. Thanks for making me double check tho! :)
Still looking for this book. Could have sworn it was called Broken Doll? But not able to find anything using key words and Google search.
Hmmm. There's a Nora Roberts book about a young woman who had a trauma as a child and now that she's an adult, she's beginning to remember (sort of) and is the focus of the killer again. She spends a lot of time in the Washington state forest. Can't remember the title, though; sorry.
I just looked through Nora Roberts book list and short descriptions but I didn't see anything that looked familier, and none of the titles rang any bells :( But thank you for the suggestion because she was one of the authors I was looking for thinking she wrote the other book I was looking for but I couldn't think of her name for some reason. So close and yet so far. Thank you though.
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Nope not either of those :( But thank you. Another thing I remember is the cover there was a rag doll like raggedy ann at the bottom of a staircase. Another part I remembered in the book was that when she was little in the hospital someone brought her a doll and had drawn on it so it had the same injuries as the girl which is why I think the book was called Broken Doll.
It sounds so similar to the story I am looking for, and now I am interested in reading it for sure, but it isn't the book I am looking for. I read the book between 93 - 97 and River's End wasn't published till 2003.
Actually, it looks like this was published originally at least as early as 1999. I don't know if there's any possibility that you read it just a couple of years later -- maybe this is still too late of a publication date. But it's definitely closer in time frame than it first appears.
Maybe it's a different Nora Roberts? Public Secrets ('90 pub) has a similar plot.
Definately not Public Secrets. Right now I am reading River's End and it is really similar, but it isn't fitting some of the things I remember. But I am only like 50 pages in, so I will keep reading. I really really think it was called Broken Doll. I remember the cover having a raggedy anne type doll on it.
There's a book called Broken Dolls by someone named Von Amon, but I can't find out anything about it.
Maybe you should try Phyllis Whitney's books. This sounds vaguely familiar to me, I wish I could give a title.
I know you didn't mean this book but Invisible Monsters has a similar plot if you're in the mood for that kind of story. Model with only half a face she lost in an accident, starts with a house fire (though she didn't lose her face in the fire), involves people that she loves scheming against her, etc.
How about The Broken Doll by Artur Kent? I can't find much about it, but click to look at the cover image. It looks promising.
That kind of reminds me of Raintree County...
Sorry you guys, thanks for trying but no luck on any of those titles. I am still looking.
Hmm. There are several other books with the words "broken doll" in the title, but none seems to match the description you give.Broken Doll
Like a Broken Doll
Broken Doll
Broken Doll
The Broken Doll
The Broken Doll With CD
Confessions of a Broken Doll
The Broken Doll: A story of unrequited love
La muneca rota / The Broken Doll: Un Cuento Sobre Frida Kahlo / A Story About Frida Kahlo
Searching not by title but by key words, The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton keeps coming up. At closer inspection, that looks like a longish shot, too, though ... :(
Yes, I keep coming up with that same list when I look by title. And the Secret Keeper is definitely not it, as it is set in modern times, I would even go so far as to say the 90's. I am normally very good with titles and have already managed to find 2 books that the system keep implying didn't exist, I am really feeling it is more a lack of record of books with that title more than me forgetting the title. But it is possible that I did :( I just really want to find the book again.
There's a murder mystery along this line that's tickling my memory ... it will surface eventually. But it had PNR/UF overtones, something ghostly, I think. And I'm pretty sure it's part of a series, too.Perhaps looking in this direction could help?
Ok I can't believe it, but I found it!! It is actually Stillwatch by Mary Higgens Clark. I don't know why I didn't find it when I went through her books earlier, but I think it was because the description didn't match up with what I remembered and I was only able to find it by reading the reveiews. Thank you everyone so much for your help!!!
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