Cassandra Taylor, like many middle-aged women, has plenty of practice putting her own dreams and career on the backburner in order to focus on her family. She has a lovely home in Hillston, New Jersey. Three wonderful daughters. And fills her free hours with a part-time docent position at a museum. It’s not the life…
CHAPTER 1 FEBRUARY 2018 “Wake up, Tess.” Sophie leans in closer to me. “Stealth approach, two o’clock.” I blink and pull myself back into the present, glancing over my shoulder to see two men approaching our table, creased shirts and red faces a sure sign they’ve been here a while. Not bad-looking, but neither does…
Chapter 1 Before the great earthquake of 1906, I was not haunted, but it would be inaccurate to say my mind was entirely at peace. From the time I was a small child, I’d suffered from what the sisters called “spells”—strange, trancelike episodes of which I have no memory. I’d be found, say, with a…
Prologue When the car bypassed the main terminal building and pulled up next to a sign that said PRIVATE JET CENTER, Emily breathed in so fast she almost choked. “You’re kidding me,” she said to her driver (her very own driver!), who smiled and opened the door for her like she was Cinderella. A security…
Chapter 1 It was a chilly predawn morning when Anthony Strauss eased Sweet Caroline, his seventeen-foot Boston Whaler, from the trailer into water so dark it was indistinguishable from the sky. To the east, the rising sun raced along the riverbank, igniting the shoreline of Lake Winnipesaukee in a buttery glow. Anthony cast his lure…
New York Times and internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah has been thrilling readers stateside and across the pond for years with her novels of psychological suspense, whether singular stories, the Zailer and Waterhouse series, or Golden Age whodunits featuring Agatha Christie’s iconic detective, Hercule Poirot. Also an accomplished poet and podcaster, and the visionary behind…
Careful What You Wish For by Hallie Ephron introduces Emily Harlow—a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives who finds herself in a mess that might be too big for her to clean up. New York Times bestselling author Hallie Ephron (yes, Ephron as in the Ephron writing dynasty) has made a name for…
The Good Sister by Gillian McAllister is a novel about the unyielding bond between two sisters, which is severely tested when one of them is accused of the worst imaginable crime. Martha and Becky Blackwood are sisters who aren’t just close due to their family bond but are actually friends despite being quite different people.…
From Louise Candlish, author of the international bestseller Our House, Those People is a story of domestic suspense that asks, “Could you hate your neighbor enough to plot to kill him?” There are bad neighbors—people who, say, let their dogs use your front yard as a toilet or start their yard work a little too…
