Sarah Pekkanen
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"Was it ... Bitter, all-consuming jealousy? Pathological sibling rivalry? Pure insanity? Whatever the cause -- and everyone has a theory -- it's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family. Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers...
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"Rose Barclay is a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the possible murder of her nanny - in the midst of her parent's bitter divorce - and immediately stopped speaking. Stella Hudson is a best interest attorney, appointed to serve as counsel for children in custody cases. She never accepts clients under thirteen due to her own traumatic childhood, but Stella's mentor, a revered judge, believes Stella is the only one who can help. From the moment Stella...
3) Gone tonight
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"Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin a new career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening. Ruth Sterling thinks she knows her daughter. Catherine would never rebel, would never question anything about her mother's...
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"Josie and Frank Moore are happy ... at least Josie thinks they are. As parents of two young girls in the Chicago suburbs, their days can be both busy and monotonous, and sometimes Josie wonders how she became a harried fortysomething mother rather than the driven career woman she once was. But Frank is a phenomenal father, he's handsome and charismatic, and he still looks at his wife like she's the beautiful woman he married more than a decade ago....
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"Every morning, as her husband Mike straps on his Sig Sauer and pulls on his heavy Magnum boots, Jamie Anderson tenses up. Then comes the call she has always feared: A shooting at police headquarters. Mike isn't hurt, but his long-time partner is grievously injured. As weeks pass and her husband's insomnia and disconnectedness mount, Jamie realizes he is an invisible casualty of the attack. Then the phone rings again. Another shooting - this time...
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An all-expense paid week at a luxury villa in Jamaica -- it's the invitation of a lifetime for a group of old college friends. All four women are desperate not just for a reunion, but for an escape: Tina is drowning under the demands of mothering four young children. Allie is shattered by the news that a genetic illness runs in her family. Savannah is carrying the secret of her husband's infidelity. And finally, there's Pauline, who spares no expense...
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Twenty-nine-year-old Lindsey Rose has, for as long as she can remember, lived in the shadow of her ravishingly beautiful fraternal twin sister, Alex. Determined to get noticed, Lindsey is finally on the cusp of being named VP creative director of an elite New York advertising agency, after years of eighty-plus-hour weeks, migraines, and profound loneliness. But during the course of one devastating night, Lindsey's carefully constructed life implodes....
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Family secrets may shape us all, but it's the rich, complicated layers of friendship that can save us. Cate, Renee, and Abby have come to New York for very different reasons, and in a bustling city of millions, they are linked together through circumstance and chance. Cate has just been named the features editor of Gloss, a high-end lifestyle magazine. It's a professional coup, but her new job comes with more complications than Cate ever anticipated....
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A chance to run a B&B in snowy, remote Vermont is an offer Kira Danner can't resist. As Kira and her husband, Peter, prepare, she quells her fears about living with the B&B's co-owners: Peter's brother Rand, and Rand's wife, Alyssa, essentially a stranger. But the idyllic town proves to be anything but serene: Within weeks, they are scrambling for their first big booking and soon a shy, mysterious woman comes to work for them. Dawn Zukoski is hiding...
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Viele Geheimnisse - und nur eine Wahrheit. Das perfekte Leben - das war einmal. Seit der Scheidung von Richard geht es Vanessa schlecht. Nur ein Gedanke hält sie aufrecht: Die Hochzeit von Richard und der anderen zu verhindern. Nellie schwebt im siebten Himmel: Ausgerechnet sie, die alles andere als ein aufregendes Leben führt, hat sich der attraktive, charismatische Richard ausgesucht. Ihr Leben ändert sich über Nacht. Und wäre perfekt, gäbe...
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"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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Sono tutto ciò che vuoi essere.
Hanno tutto ciò che desideri.
Ma, in realtà, sono loro che vogliono qualcosa da te, a tutti i costi.
Forse tutti noi conosciamo qualcuno come Shay Miller. Shay è una ragazza di trent'anni, sola, insicura e insoddisfatta. Cerca il vero amore, ma non riesce a trovarlo; vorrebbe un lavoro che la soddisfi, invece non ha stimoli né entusiasmo; desidera sentirsi parte di una comunità, di un gruppo di amici, ma è...
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«Hendricks & Pekkanen sanno giocare con l'amore per il rischio dei loro personaggi, portandoli sull'orlo del disastro e sfidandoli a saltare gi.» the New York Times Book Review
«Suspense pura.» Publishers Weekly
«Due autrici al massimo della loro bravura. Non indovinerete mai il finale.» People Magazine
Eminente psichiatra di New York cerca donne tra i 18 e i 32 anni per uno studio su etica e morale.
Compenso generoso. Anonimato garantito.
Una...
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«Un triangolo amoroso, ma anche molto di pi. Non saprete di chi fidarvi, fino allo straordinario finale.»Gillian Flynn, autrice diGone Girl. L'amore bugiardo
Ogni relazione ha le sue ombre. Anche il matrimonio perfetto.
Quando leggerai questo romanzo, farai molte supposizioni. Supporrai che sia la storia di una ex moglie gelosa, ossessionata dalla donna che l'ha rimpiazzata nel cuore del suo ex marito. Oppure penserai che sia quella della ragazza...
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"The thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of An Anonymous Girl and The Wife Between Us. Shay Miller has three strikes against her: no job, no apartment, no love in her life. But when she witnesses a perfectly normal looking young woman about her age make the chilling decision to leap in front of an ongoing subway train, Shay realizes she could end up in the same spiral. She is intrigued by a group of women who seem to...
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"When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing. Twisted and deliciously chilling, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen's The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of...
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"If Avery Chambers can't fix you in ten sessions, she won't take you on as a client. She helps people overcome everything, from domineering parents to assault. Her successes almost help her absorb the emptiness she feels since her husband's death. Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple, until Marissa cheats. She wants to repair things, both because she loves her husband and for the sake of their eight-year-old son. After a friend forwards...
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"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding."-- Provided by publisher.
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"When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous wife and her obsession with her replacement. You will assume you are reading about a woman about to enter a new marriage with the man she loves. You will assume the first wife was a disaster and that the husband was well rid of her. You will assume you know the motives, the history, the anatomy of the relationships. Assume nothing"-- Provided...

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