This is an absorbing and honest novel about the responsibilities—and limitations—of being a parent and our capacity to provide our children with unconditional love in the face of an unthinkable situation. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.
Daniel allen has always been a good kid—a decent student, as a child of divorce, popular—but, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. He lives a contented life in westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel.
In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Paul allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. Told alternately from the point of view of the guilt-ridden, determined father and his meandering, ruminative son, The Good Father is a powerfully emotional page-turner that keeps one guessing until the very end.
As the chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr.
A Conspiracy of Tall Men
Energetic and funny. An engrossing debut. The new york Times. But as their journey progresses, it becomes frighteningly clear they've left the realm of the academic and are tangled up in a dangerous, multilayered cover-up. Linus owen is a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco.
But if claudia is in chicago, buy her ticket and die beside her? enlisting the aid of two fellow conspiracy theorists, how is it that two FBI agents show up at Linus' office and inform him that Claudia has been killed in a plane crash on her way from New York to Brazil? And why did a man named Jeffrey Holden, the vice president of a major pharmaceutical company, Linus heads across the country in search of answers.
Finally, deep in the heart of the American desert, stunned by an ominous revelation, Linus sees he has a new mission: to try to stay alive. His marriage is foundering and his wife, Claudia, has gone to Chicago to visit her mother.
The Punch
His brother scott can't shake the belief that at heart, people are inherently rotten. David, the older son, believes that any minute his life is going to fall apart and everyone he loves will leave him. Wickedly funny and biting, family violence, the punch is an essential exploration of modern American grief, and redemption from the bestselling author of BEFORE THE FALL and creator of the Emmy award-winning series FARGO.
First, however, his loved ones have some things to work out. Doris, their mother, just doesn't believe in anything anymore.
Other People's Weddings: A Novel
When she finally sees him again, a romance begins between them. Through her courtship, to get past, glimpses of her past emerge-her own first marriage and divorce, the things she is trying to get over, that threaten her new relationship. Before the book is over, she has to tear down all the walls she has built, in Noah Hawley's Other People's Weddings.
Later, at home, she finds pictures of him at eleven other weddings she's photographed and wonders if his propensity to crash weddings is sweet or creepy. Laurie is a wedding photographer who has photographed more than a thousand weddings over the last ten years. One morning, she wakes up and wonders what happened to all those couples.
They share a spark, a few moments of powerful chemistry, and then he's gone. Others have split up. A crasher.
We, the Jury
On the day before his twenty-first wedding anniversary, David Sullinger buried an ax in his wife’s skull. As the jurors stagger toward a verdict, adultery, they must sift through contradictory testimony from the Sullinger’s children, who disagree on which parent was Satan; sort out conflicting allegations of severe physical abuse, and incest; and overcome personal animosities and biases that threaten a fair and just verdict.
Ultimately, the central figures in We, the Jury must navigate the blurred boundaries between bias and objectivity, fiction and truth.
Before We Met: A Novel
Now, living in their elegant, expensive London townhouse and adored by her fantastically successful husband, she knows she was right to let down her guard. Why do mark's colleagues believe he has gone to paris not america? why is there no record of him at his hotel? And who is the mysterious woman who has been telephoning him over the last few weeks? Hannah begins to dig into her husband's life uncovering revelations that throw into doubt everything she has ever believed about him.
Paranoia-inducing. Entertainment weekly psychological thriller that will keep readers guessing right up until the last page. A whirlwind romance. A "taut and fraught. But when mark does not return from a business trip to the States and when the hours of waiting for him stretch into days, the foundations of Hannah's certainty begins to crack.
. Hannah reilly has seized her chance at happiness.
Before the Fall
. On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family.
Was it by chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something more sinister at work? A storm of media attention brings Scott fame that quickly morphs into notoriety and accusations, and he scrambles to salvage truth from the wreckage. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean.
Winner of the 2017 edgar award for best novel and the 2017 international thriller writers award for best novel from the award-winning creator of fargo comes "one the year's best suspense novels" NEW YORK TIMES.
The Advocate's Daughter: A Thriller
A washington, D. C. Power players, everyone has secrets they desperately want to keep hidden, including Sean Serrat, a Supreme Court lawyer. Lawyer and a frequent major media commentator on the Supreme Court, Anthony Franze delivers a high-stakes story of family, power, loss and revenge set within the insular world of the highest court of our country.
Among Washington D. C. The ensuing media frenzy leads to allegations that Malik's arrest was racially motivated, sparking a national controversy. But just as he learns he's on the short list to be nominated to the U. S. While the serrat family works through their grief, Sean begins to suspect the authorities arrested the wrong person.
People who will stop at nothing to ensure that Sean never exposes the truth. Supreme court, abby, his daughter, a talented and dedicated law student, goes missing.
Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark
The legacy truly lives on. With sidney sheldon’s angel of the dark, stylish, sexy and surprising story of a son’s globe-hopping hunt for answers about his wealthy father’s brutal death, a gripping, confirmed Sheldon fans have good reason to rejoice.
All Things Cease to Appear: A novel
A rich and complex portrait of a psychopath and a marriage, this is also an astute study of the various taints that can scar very different families, and even an entire community. A dark, beautifully written book—by “a brilliant novelist, ” according to richard bausch—that combines noir and the gothic in a story about two families entwined in their own unhappiness, a gruesome and unsolved murder Late one winter afternoon in upstate New York, riveting, with, at its heart, George Clare comes home to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone—for how many hours?—in her room across the hall.
While his parents rescue him from suspicion, a persistent cop is stymied at every turn in proving Clare a heartless murderer. He had recently, begrudgingly, taken a position at a nearby private college far too expensive for local kids to attend teaching art history, and moved his family into a tight-knit, impoverished town that has lately been discovered by wealthy outsiders in search of a rural idyll.
George is of course the immediate suspect—the question of his guilt echoing in a story shot through with secrets both personal and professional.
Three Days Missing: A Novel of Psychological Suspense
It's every parent's worst nightmare: the call that comes in the middle of the night. When kat jenkins awakens to the police on her doorstep, her greatest fear is realized. Her nine-year-old son, ethan, is missing--vanished from the cabin where he'd been on an overnight class trip. But as the police investigation unfolds, Ethan's disappearance has earth-shattering consequences for Stef, as her path crosses with Kat.
. Shocked and distraught, kat rushes to the campground, but she's too late; the authorities have returned from their search empty-handed after losing Ethan's trail in the mountain forest. Another mother from the school, seems like she has it all: money, Stef Huntington, prominence in the community, a popular son and a loving husband.
As the two mothers race against the clock, their desperate search for answers reveals how the greatest dangers lie behind the everyday smiles of those they trust the most.
