It’s been four years since Lydia Harris last spoke to her elder sister, Adele. Washington Post Book World From highly acclaimed novelist Barbara Wood comes an exciting thriller teeming with adventure and suspense about two sisters caught in a deadly international game. From the sensual heat of the desert to the corrupt underworld of Las Vegas, author Kathryn Harvey delivers a stimulating tale with Private Entrance.īarbara wood is an entertainer. Someone will die, someone will find love, and all three women will come to astonishing realizations about themselves. Amid the glamour of movie stars and the super rich, the three strangers Coco, Sissy, and Ophelia find themselves embroiled in a baffling mystery involving the reclusive spa owner, Abby Tyler.Īs a deadly sandstorm approaches the resort, a murderer stalks the trapped guests. This exclusive anything goes, no questions asked resort in the Southern California desert is an oasis so remote, that the only way in or out is by airplane. None of them are prepared for the luxurious and erotic prize that awaits them a week at The Grove. To locate her child and end years of heartache, Abby formulates a plan that will bring her face to face with a past she has tried to forget.Įlsewhere, three strangers receive word that they ve each won a contest that, oddly, they don t recall entering. For more than thirty years, Abby has been desperately searching for her child an infant stolen at birth before she even had a chance to see it.
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It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats and thousands of black swans driven from other parts of the country, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of first lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city. The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award. She's given the protagonists (Jude and Uriah) very interesting, very damaged and believable personalities ). Anne Frazier has done a wonderful job really fleshing out the characters. This is an excellent sequel to The Body Reader. The body count is rising.īut when the latest victim is found in Jude’s apartment, the puzzle comes with a personal twist that’s going to test the breaking point of her already-fragile state of mind. He believes that the madman’s next move is not incalculable in fact, it’s all part of a sequential and ingenious numerical riddle. But it’s a new, escalating series of mass slayings that has become her latest obsession at Homicide.Īt first, Jude and her partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, can see no pattern to the seemingly random methods, the crime scenes, or the victims - until they’re approached by a brilliantly compulsive math professor. Months after discovering the mastermind behind her own kidnapping, Detective Jude Fontaine is dealing with the past the only way she knows how: by returning to every dark corner of it. From a New York Times bestselling author comes the chilling follow-up to the Thriller Award winner The Body Reader. |