Patricia J. MacDonald

Twelve-year-old Jenny Newhall meets her natural mother, Linda Emery, but the reunion is short-lived--Linda is soon found murdered, and Jenny's adoptive father is the prime suspect

Mother's Day

After the suicide of her husband, Richard, Keely Bennett and her son, Dylan, move to her late spouse's Maryland hometown, where she marries again, but when her new husband drowns in their pool, evidence emerges that implicates Dylan in both deaths.

Not Guilty

When Shelby Sloan's daughter Chloe disappears from the cruise she was taking with her husband, everyone assumes that she accidentally fell overboard, but Shelby soon comes to doubt that all is as it seems.

Cast Into Doubt

Hoffman, dans le New Jersey : une petite ville paisible, bourgeoise. Lorsqu’on apprend que le très estimé docteur Avery a poignardé sa femme, c’est la stupeur. Nina, sa fille de seize ans, est convaincue de son innocence. Quinze ans plus tard, libéré sur parole Avery revient à Hoffman. Mais la ville est-elle prête à l’accueillir ? Armée de ses seules certitudes, Nina n’a d’autre choix pour aider son père que d’explorer un passé familial douloureux. Peu à peu, les secrets des uns et des autres se dévoilent. Et la mort frappe à nouveau. Un très grand thriller où les instincts les plus noirs, les passions les plus féroces se dissimulent sous des apparences anodines. Jamais Patricia MacDonald n’aura autant mérité son titre de reine du suspense psychologique. [Source : 4e de couv.]

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La fille sans visage

Laura Reed has success, love, and happiness until her husband is murdered, but she eventually rebuilds her life and falls in love again--only to be accused of killing her late husband

Secret Admirer

Twelve-year-old Jenny Newhall meets her natural mother, Linda Emery, but the reunion is short-lived--Linda is soon found murdered, and Jenny's adoptive father is the prime suspect. By the author of The Unforgiven. 50,000 first printing.

After losing her parents in a car accident, Alex Woods learns of the existence of a baby that her mother gave up for adoption and decides to search for her long-lost sister, a decision that may turn out to be a terrible mistake.

Sisters

Inspired by today's headlines, this riveting new novel by the Edgar Award-nominated author of "The Girl Next Door" tells the story of a young newlywed who survives a brutal attack and must confront the possibility that her husband tried to kill her.

A Novel

Married to a Stranger

When her estranged sister Greta dies in a mysterious house fire, Britt Andersen heads for Vermont to find out what happened, meeting her brother-in-law and young niece for the first time and discovering that Greta had been hiding dark family secrets.

Suspicious Origin

After her husband is killed by an intruder, Laura Reed, an author of children's books, goes away to grieve--and meets a man. When they become romantically involved, police arrest her for the murder of her husband. Now Laura must come up with proof of her innocence.

Eleven years after her young son mysteriously disappeared, Paul is miraculously returned, but Anna Lange and her family find their joy taking a dark turn because of Paul's odd behavior and by someone who will do anything to keep the truth a secret. Reprint.

Stranger in the House

A chilling novel about a 20-year-old murder, a present-day killer, a single mother on the run, and the controversial role of death penalty's in the criminal justice system.

Stolen in the Night

When her father is murdered 15 years after being convicted of killing her mother, struggling actress Nina Avery must dig into the past to find the real killer before she becomes the next victim.

The Girl Next Door

Believing her paroled father innocent of killing her mother, a woman plans a family reunion only to meet with another act of violence.

La soeur de l'ombre

Rapt de nuit

Unjustly convicted of and imprisoned for murdering her lover, Maggie moves to a quiet New England island after her release, but an unknown tormentor is unwilling to let her forget the past, in a new edition of the author's first, Edgar-nominated suspense novel. Reprint.

The Unforgiven

After Brooklyn graduate student Morgan Adair agrees to be the godmother for the infant son of her best friend Claire, she is shocked when she receives a phone call from Claire, who claims to have killed her husband and son.

From Cradle to Grave

Beth Pearson reluctantly returns to her bleak Maine hometown after the death of her father to take charge of her fourteen-year-old sister, Francie, but her plans to return with her sister to Philadelphia are threatened by her sister's boyfriend, the torme

Little Sister

When a fifteen-year-old baby-sitter vanishes with her towheaded charge, Maddy Blake, like the rest of her sleepy, suburban town, is shaken. When the teenager's naked body is recovered and a manhunt for the missing toddler turns up nothing, Maddy, like the entire community of Taylorsville, is horrified. She follows the case with some detachment - until the police arrive at her door. Her husband, Doug, has become the prime suspect. Recently acquitted of sexual misconduct charges levied by the shy daughter of the local police chief, he becomes the object of a father's vendetta. Once again, Maddy rallies to her husband's defense - only to find herself questioning the innocence of the moody, self-absorbed man who shares her bed.

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