Joy Fielding
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bonnie Wheeler reluctantly agrees to meet with her husband's ex-wife after the woman cautions her against an unknown danger, but when Bonnie arrives, she finds Joan has been murdered and learns to her horror that she is not only the main suspect, but that the dead woman's warning was true.
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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Description
Family therapist Kate Sinclair's life starts to unravel when her sister announces she intends to marry an accused serial murderer, her mother begins to lose her grip on reality, her daughter enters a rebellious phase, and an old flame arrives on the scene.
3) Puppet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amanda Travis is a high-powered, twenty-eight-year-old lawyer whose greatest likes are spinning classes at her Palm Beach gym and a compliant jury. As for the things she hates, they include nicknames, the color pink, clients who don't follow her advice ... and memories. Unfortunately, running from her past becomes a lot harder when one of her ex-husbands calls from her hometown of Toronto with the alarming news that her mother has shot and killed...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Single mom Charley Webb, a controversial columnist for the "Palm Beach Post," jumps at the chance to write the memoirs of Jill Rohmer, a woman on death row for the murders of three children, but what she believed might be her ticket to fame turns deadly when Charley begins receiving threatening mail, and Jill reveals that she had an accomplice who has never been brought to justice.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After surviving an auto accident that broke nearly every bone in her body and plunged her into a coma, successful businesswomen and happily married Casey Marshall realizes that although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. She quickly discovers that her friends aren't necessarily the people she thought them to be--and that her accident might not have been an accident at all.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Fifty-year-old Marcy Taggart's husband has left her for another woman. Devastating as that may be, it hardly compares to the death of her 21-year-old daughter, Devon, in a canoeing accident. Her body was never found in the icy waters of Georgian Bay, and as a result Marcy has never fully accepted her death. Now, in Ireland, Marcy yet again thinks she sees her daughter casually strolling past her on the sidewalk, which will lead to a desperate search...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Brothers Will and Jeff, along with their friend Tom, find an innocent bet over who can seduce a young woman they met while out at a South Beach bar changing their relationships and lives when the target ends up being a woman looking for a man to kill her abusive husband for her.
14) Cul-de-sac
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places"--
15) The deep end
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
As Joanne Hunter's secure suburban world is falling apart, she receives disturbing phone calls. She can't get anyone to believe that the killer of three housewives in the community is stalking her. The voice on the phone whispers "You're next."
16) Home Invasion
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Kathy Brown suddenly wakes up. Was that a noise in the house, or part of her dream? In her dream, Kathy was about to kiss Michael, her high school boyfriend. Her husband, Jack, lies beside her, snoring. Michael is exciting. Jack is boring. When Kathy hears the noise again, she gets up. Then she hears whispers. Then...
17) Lost
Author
Language
English
Description
Julia Carver, a twenty-four-year-old model and aspiring actress, has always had a difficult relationship with her mother, Cindy. So when her daughter disappears, Cindy assumes that Julia is just being Julia. But after a day and night passes with no word, Cindy suspects that something terrible has happened, and begins a frantic search. As the days pass, secrets are revealed, lives are forever altered, and Cindy is forced to acknowledge the disturbing...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2016], p2015
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the kidnapping of her infant fifteen years earlier, Carole Shipley receives a phone call from a young girl claiming to be her lost daughter, an event that plunges Carole back into a world of heartbreak, suspicion, and questions.
19) The first time
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
After sixteen years of marriage, Mattie Hart's husband Jake leaves her for another woman, leaving her to cope with her teenage daughter's anger and a health crisis that will tear all their lives apart.