"Alex Smyth, of Irish birth but living for many years with his wife in rural Canada, receives a trout fly in the mail, with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear that he is being stalked after the publication of his most recent book, and it awakens in him deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, before he was old enough to understand the adult world around him. It also evokes the guilt that he may have murdered a...

"Years ago, Fortune gave up on his daughter, Sophie, after a troubled adolescence. Now she's gone missing, vanished without trace. And after weeks of investigation, the police have given up on her, too. Driven by guilt, and a determination to atone for his failures as a father, he takes on the search himself. He soon finds that his daughter had been living in fear of a vicious online troll who seemed to know far too much about her. Could Sophie's...

"Lizzie Kent wasn't supposed to babysit the night she was murdered. She was covering for her best friend, Nell O'Connor, so Nell could sneak out and meet her boyfriend. Nell has had to live with the guilt ever since. Eighteen years later and Nell returns to Purity Island, desperate to escape a bad relationship. She has inherited her aunt's rundown guesthouse and hopes the island will offer her sanctuary and a fresh start. Her return isn't welcomed...

"There's heartbreak, there's joy, there are parts where you cry-and it's very high quality writing. Well done!" - Margaret Atwood "Unpretentious and affecting, with characters to remember and themes that linger and resound." - Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap Marina Endicott's Good to a Fault wrings suspense and humor out of the everyday choices we make, revealing the delicate balance between sacrifice and...

Exploring lives on the brink of disaster, R.J. Jacobs returns with another compulsively readable novel of suspense for fans of B.A. Paris and Mary Kubica. Do the mistakes of the past mark us as guilty for life? After a childhood marred by neglect, Jessie Duval's finally got it together. With an apartment in Nashville and a job with a catering company, she's thriving. But all that changes when Jessie works an event where celebrities will be in attendance--including...

After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.