Paula Daly
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Lisa Kallisto is one of those overworked, overscheduled mothers who never secure enough sleep at night. After getting her three kids off to school, working all day as the manager of a charitable animal shelter and taking care of her household, she's lucky to get a few minutes to herself. So when her daughter's friend Lucinda turns up missing after she was supposed to spend the night at Lisa's home, Lisa is full of blame and self-loathing. And she's...
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A woman must face her husband's secrets when he is suddenly attacked in this "superior domestic thriller" of envy and literary ambition (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
A biracial couple with two young children, the Campbells face as many challenges as any family in Liverpool. But Jane tends to let her husband, Leon—a bestselling thriller writer—fight their battles. Averse to conflict, she prefers to focus...
A biracial couple with two young children, the Campbells face as many challenges as any family in Liverpool. But Jane tends to let her husband, Leon—a bestselling thriller writer—fight their battles. Averse to conflict, she prefers to focus...
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Roz has reached her breaking point. Her marriage and business have both failed. And with debts racking up, she's struggling to provide for her nine-year-old son, who is starting to misbehave in school.
Then, at her sister's fortieth birthday party, a perfect-albeit indecent-opportunity presents itself. Scott Elias is wealthy, powerful, and very married. But he wants Roz and he's willing to pay for the privilege of her company.
Offering cash in...
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From the acclaimed author of The Trophy Child comes a "superbly sinister" domestic thriller of false friendship and deadly betrayal (Mystery Scene).
When her daughter falls ill while on a school trip overseas, Natty rushes to be by her side. And she's so relieved to have a friend like Eve, who offers to help her husband around the house in her absence. But when Natty returns home she discovers that Eve has taken to family life a little too well-and...
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A woman imprisoned for murder must rely on a cold case investigator to clear her name in this tense crime thriller.
When Carrie was accused of brutally murdering her husband's lover, she denied it. Even when they found her blood inside his house. Even when they sent her to prison. Now three years into her fifteen-year sentence, she's gradually losing hope and separated from her pregnant daughter. Tess works for a charity that helps clear people...
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In her unsettling new domestic thriller, "The Trophy Child", Daly digs beneath the serene surface of the idyllic suburban Lake District community where families strive for perfection, delivering a suspenseful, surprising story of motherhood and fallibility. Karen Bloom is not the coddling mother type. She believes in raising her children for success. Some in the neighborhood call her assertive, others say she's driven, but in gossiping circles she's...