Author: Amanda Stevens

Video Production: Stonecreek Media

Set against the turbulent Louisiana Gulf Coast, The Dollmaker is the story of a twisted obsession and a mother’s desperate quest to learn the fate of her missing child.

Seven years ago, Claire Doucett’s daughter vanished without a trace. A clue has finally surfaced—a doll that looks exactly like her beloved Ruby, right down to a birthmark painted on one porcelain arm. Claire’s search will lead her from a quaint collectibles shop in the French Quarter to the murky Louisiana bayou country and the shadowy home of an eccentric doll maker whose ‘portrait’ dolls resemble missing children.

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"From the genteel shops lining the French Quarter of New Orleans to the forbidden bayous in the surrounding parishes, The Dollmaker by Amanda Stevens is a terrifying thriller..." - Mysterious Reviews

"This intriguing book has elements of Silence of the Lambs and John Saul’s myriad child-in-danger books, skillfully weaving great mood and atmosphere with solid dialogue and suspense that never fails to build." - Curled Up With A Good Book

"With The Dollmaker, author Amanda Stevens conjures up James Patterson and Anne Rice in this creepy gothic chiller of a novel. Making the leap from the romantic suspense yarns for which she's known to psychological suspense thriller, Stevens steers clear of the throwaway potboiler and crafts a well-constructed, multi-layered plot ripe with police corruption, child abduction, and enough creepy dolls to make one shudder at the next mention of Madame Alexander. It's John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil meets House of Wax — minus Paris Hilton with just a hint of John Grisham's Southern sensibilities." - Vince A. Liaguno, author of The Literary Six

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