Grace comes from a prominent Boston family, and because of her illegitimate pregnancy, is sent to live in the Wayburne Lunatic Asylum in Boston until she gives birth. Narrated in the first person perspective by young female protagonist Grace Mae, the story begins in 1890 Boston, Massachusetts. The novel has been praised for its “bountiful buffet of twisted, dark intrigue” by USA Today, its “dark study of the effects of power in the wrong hands, buoyed by a tenacious heroine and her colorful companions" by Kirkus Reviews, and comes “highly recommended” by School Library Journal. A Madness So Discreet won the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Young Mystery. Using her sharp intellect to escape the asylum, Grace relocates to Ohio and begins a new life of solving crimes, accessing her madness to investigate crime scenes and gain insight to the motivations of a mysterious serial killer. In this beautifully twisted historical thriller, Mindy McGinnis, acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, explores the fine line between sanity and insanity, good and evil-and the madness that exists in all of us.Set in 1890 Boston and Ohio, young-adult mystery thriller A Madness So Discreet (2015) by American author Mindy McGinnis follows Grace Mae, a young woman from a prestigious family who is compelled to enter an insane asylum to conceal her out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Grace, continuing to operate under the cloak of madness, must hunt a murderer while she confronts the demons in her own past.
But gruesome nights bring Grace and the doctor into the circle of a killer who stalks young women. Escaping from Boston to the safety of an ethical Ohio asylum, Grace finds friendship and hope, hints of a life she should have had. With her keen eyes and sharp memory, Grace will make the perfect assistant at crime scenes. When her voice returns in a burst of violence, Grace is banished to the dark cellars, where her mind is discovered by a visiting doctor who dabbles in the new study of criminal psychology.
Those secrets, along with the bulge in her belly, land her in a Boston insane asylum. She keeps it locked away, along with her voice, trapped deep inside a brilliant mind that cannot forget horrific family secrets.
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