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2) The red one
Author
Publisher
Mawenzi House
Language
English
Description
Nisha, "Azar's beautiful wife," lives a life surrounded by all the modern luxuries of a wealthy suburban home in Toronto. Her father is a taxi driver, her mother a conservative religious housewife jealously craving a better material life. Tormented by her childhood memories of serial sexual abuse by a family friend, contemptuous of the lies lived by her circle of fake friends, Nisha is unwilling to have a child by her dominant, patronizing husband....
Author
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Shari Lapena and The Perfect Nanny, a tale of marriage, secrets, and domestic skills put to sinister use in the present and in the past. Alice Hale is the reluctant new owner of a suburban house outside of New York; Alice misses the city but is determined to work hard to build the kind of life her husband dreams of, complete with children. At first the house seems to resent Alice as much as she resents it, but after she discovers an old...
6) Confidence
Author
Series
Anna and Fin volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Description
When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the center of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman silver casket. One day after Lisa vanishes that casket gets...
Author
Language
English
Description
Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbours, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate - not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts...
11) Cruel intent
Author
Series
Alison Reynolds mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Author
Series
Mommy-track mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
Former public defender Juliet Applebaum finds her new life as a stay-at-home mother interrupted by her investigation into a local murder.
13) Stay close
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
Three characters confront the dark side of the American Dream - the boredom of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades - to discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat. A stand-alone thriller.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Language
English
Description
"The page-turning new novel from the internationally bestselling author known for her "conversational writing style and a knack for making readers care about her characters" (The Washington Post) takes us into the homes of an idyllic suburban neighborhood where we discover the burning secrets hiding just below the surface. Bucolic Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on balmy nights and all of the streets are named for flowers, is proud...
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