From the awardwinning author of the Brigid Quinn thrillers, which have been translated into 20 languages, comes this gripping series spinoff and upmarket domestic suspense novel.Alice Einstein—known as “Malice” to her former schoolfriends—likes to tell herself stories. There’s a good one she’s workshopping about how, despite once being a critically acclaimed literary novelist, she’s ended up blocked and uninspired, living in her timid, conflictaverse sister Liesl’s spare room.But then Liesl sends her an SOS worthy of a thriller novel. The horror! The horror! Sam is back.Sam, Liesl’s wealthy exhusband, vanished ten years ago, leaving her a chunk of money but no explanation. Sam is handsome, charming, manipulative . . . and now he claims he’s sick. But Alice, with her experience of spinning tales, knows a liar when she sees one.Haunted by a childhood tragedy that gave birth to the cruel nickname “Lethal”, Liesl now specializes in saving things: dogs, children, sisters. Telling herself it’s time she returned the favor, Alice engages the services of Brigid Quinn, a hardboiled local private investigator with a shady past, to help her get rid of Sam for good.But as the plot thickens, Alice begins to wonder if she knows anyone involved—most of all herself—quite as well as she thinks . . .
From the awardwinning author of the Brigid Quinn thrillers, which have been translated into 20 languages, comes this gripping series spinoff and upmarket domestic suspense novel.Alice Einstein—known as “Malice” to her former schoolfriends—likes to tell herself stories. There’s a good one she’s workshopping about how, despite once being a critically acclaimed literary novelist, she’s ended up blocked and uninspired, living in her timid, conflictaverse sister Liesl’s spare room.But then Liesl sends her an SOS worthy of a thriller novel. The horror! The horror! Sam is back.Sam, Liesl’s wealthy exhusband, vanished ten years ago, leaving her a chunk of money but no explanation. Sam is handsome, charming, manipulative . . . and now he claims he’s sick. But Alice, with her experience of spinning tales, knows a liar when she sees one.Haunted by a childhood tragedy that gave birth to the cruel nickname “Lethal”, Liesl now specializes in saving things: dogs, children, sisters. Telling herself it’s time she returned the favor, Alice engages the services of Brigid Quinn, a hardboiled local private investigator with a shady past, to help her get rid of Sam for good.But as the plot thickens, Alice begins to wonder if she knows anyone involved—most of all herself—quite as well as she thinks . . .
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