In a quiet New England town, the Newhalls live an uneventful life with their adopted daughter. When the child's birth mother is murdered, the first suspect is the adoptive father. The author of The Unforgiven and No Way Home delivers a complex, emotionally intense "family-in-peril" thriller.

Mother's Day

Literature & Fiction

Patricia MacDonald

United States

Grand Central Publishing

Laura Reed feels safe and happy in Cape Christian, a little jewel of Victorian architecture and quiet streets on New Jersey's southern tip. The children's books she writes are earning her modest fame; her husband Jimmy's art gallery is flourishing; and Cape Christian is the right kind of small town in which to raise their little boy, Michael. She never dreams that this New Year's Eve her nearly perfect life will end. That a man in a ski mask will break into her house, knock her out, and shoot her husband dead. That it will be nearly one hour before she revives and calls 911. That those missing minutes before her call will convince the police that she committed the crime. Although there is too little evidence to arrest her, Laura feels the eyes of the entire community - including her in-laws' - accusing her. Even her lawyer, Jimmy's business partner, doesn't seem to believe her. Her only ally is Gary, a young wheelchair-bound painter. His faithful devotion and the bouquets he sends brighten Laura's days. Then Ian Turner docks his sailboat in Cape Christian, and a chance meeting brings him into Laura's life. His marriage, too, has ended in tragedy, and he not only believes Laura, but falls in love with her. For the first time since Jimmy's murder, Laura dares to feel alive. Until she begins to sense that danger is near.

Secret Admirer

The murder of a young girl comes between Karen and Greg Newhall when their adopted daughter's biological mother shows up, revealing cruel secrets about Greg's past that make Karen wonder how well she knows her own family. Reprint.

Parenting & Relationships

Visión

When a vicious burglar breaks into Andy's house and threatens his life, Elizabeth--an apparition from Ghostworld--whisks him into her world, but is unable to return him to the real world again

BEYOND TERROR (GHOSTWORLD 1)

Barbara Siegel

Scott Siegel

Children's Books

Simon Pulse

Suspicious Origin

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Atria

FROM THE PUBLISHER Eleven years ago, Anna Lange's life was shattered when her young son, Paul, disappeared -- though she never gave up hope that he might be alive. Now, her son has been returned. The joyful family reunion is short-lived, however, as the nervous, withdrawn Paul begins to behave strangely. Anna's husband and daughter grow fearful living in the same house with him. But Anna believes that Paul is still recovering from the extreme psychological trauma he experienced the night he disappeared -- though he claims he has no memory of that time. Does he or doesn't he? Someone remembers -- and will stop at nothing to keep the truth a secret. Now Anna will have to contend with a nightmare from the past that will either tear her family apart, or destroy them together....

Stranger in the House

Pocket_Books

From Book Jacket: Tess DeGraff leads a satisfying life as a documentary film maker and the adoptive single mother of an 11 year old boy, even though she is still haunted by the murder of her sister. Tess was only nine when her family's camping trip in New Hampshire turned deadly. Her eyewitness testimony convicted Lazarus Abbott who was subsequently put tp death. Abbott's mother always believed her son innocent and a DNA test now reveals that he was not the killer. Tess is stunned by the news, and returns to the small New Hampshire town to discover the truth for herself.

Stolen in the Night (Large Print Edition)

Not Guilty

Genre Fiction

Dell Publishing Co. Inc.

Headline Book Publishing

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