Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, author portrait
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Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore is the author of The Witch and the Tsar and The Haunting of Moscow House. Originally from Moscow, she was raised in the US and graduated from Pepperdine University with a BA in English/political science, and from Northwestern School of Law with a JD. She practiced litigation at a large law firm in Chicago for several years before pursuing her dream of becoming an author. She writes gothic suspense and other dark fiction. She also loves exploring Eastern European history and folklore. Her work has appeared in LitHub, Tor.com, CrimeReads, Writer’s Digest, and Washington Independent Review of Books, among others. She lives in a wooded, lakeside suburb of Chicago with her husband and two daughters.
The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru
The Haunting of Moscow House
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The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru
The Haunting of Moscow House
The Witch and the Tsar

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Tue Mar 24 | 06:30 PM
THE BOOK STALL
811 ELM ST
WINNETKA, IL 60093-2236
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Wed Mar 25 | 07:00 PM
SAMANTHA JACQUEST DBA BLUE HOUSE BOOKS
5915 6TH AVENUE A
KENOSHA, WI 53140-4109
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Dear Librarians: A Letter from Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, Author of The Haunting of Moscow House

“The Haunting of Moscow House is many things. It is about a society on the cusp of momentous change, a persecuted group in history now quite forgotten, a female-centric story of survival and the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood that make this possible, an old house with hundreds of years of past and memory. But at its heart, The Haunting of Moscow House is a ghost story.”

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