Alice Laplante
1) Turn of mind
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Implicated in the murder of her best friend, Jennifer White, a brilliant retired surgeon with dementia, struggles with fractured memories of their complex relationship and wonders if she actually committed the crime.
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When Dr. John Taylor is found dead in a hotel room in his
hometown, the local police find enough incriminating
evidence to suspect foul play. Detective Samantha Adams,
whose Palo Alto beat usually covers small-town crimes, is
innocently thrown into a high-profile murder case that is
more intricately intertwined than she could ever imagine.
A renowned plastic surgeon, a respected family man, and an
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Never one to conform, Anna always had trouble fitting in. Earnest and willful, she quickly learned, as a young girl, how to hide her quirks from her parents and friends. But at sixteen, a sudden melancholia takes hold of her life. Then the Goldschmidt's move in next door. The new neighbors are active members of a religious cult, and Anna is awestruck by both their son, Lars, and their fervent violent prophecies for the Tribulation at the End of Days....
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100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints, from the author of The Making of a Story.
When you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a constraint, based prompt, for example, "you must use the words 'cloud' and 'green'" or "you must set the scene in a crowded grocery store", can get your brain working in unexpected ways.
In this creative writing guide, longtime teacher and novelist Alice LaPlante...
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"An eerie, tense, and finely written novel…Readers will grip their chairs" (SFGate.com) as they try to unravel this tale of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind.
Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed in a senseless accident. Devastated, she manages to make one tiny stab at a new life: she moves from San Francisco to the seaside town of Half Moon Bay. Jane is inconsolable,...