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Local police have announced that they're closing the investigation of the suspected drowning of 37-year-old painter Colleen Westcott. She disappeared on April 11, 2010, and her car was found parked near the waterfront in Cleveland two days later, but her body has never been found. The chief of police has stated that no concrete evidence of foul play has been discovered in the probe.
close the online search window, annoyed. These articles never have enough detail. They think my husband's first wife disappeared or they think she is dead. There's a big difference.
My phone rings, jarring me away from my thoughts, and when I pick it up, it's an unknown number. The only answer to my slightly breathless hello is empty static.
When the voice does finally come, it's female, low, muffled somehow. "Where is it, Claire? What did you do with it? Tell me where it is."
A woman. A real flesh-and-blood woman on the other end of the phone. She's not just in my head.
A wave of panic spreads under my skin like ice water. It's Colleen.
"Laurin knows how to ratchet up the suspense." — Publishers Weekly
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- ISBN: 9781549120589
- File size: 228339 KB
- Duration: 07:55:42
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- English
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May 6, 2019
Claire Westcott, the principal narrator of this gripping tale of obsession from Laurin (Girl Last Seen), believes passionately that fate brought her together with her husband of two years, charismatic Byron Westcott, a professor at Ohio’s Mansfield College, and fate is never wrong. Byron’s first wife, Colleen, also a Mansfield professor, committed suicide five years before Claire married Byron. Claire, 20 years younger than her spouse, is consumed with being the perfect second wife and ensuring that Byron forgets Colleen. Plagued with unexplained illness, fainting spells, and days of lost consciousness, Claire is prepared to do anything to keep the marriage that is her destiny intact. When she discovers emails between Byron and an unknown correspondent indicating he “has to get rid of her,” she begins to wonder if Byron is a serial wife-killer. A second narrative voice, which belongs to a woman who may be stalking Claire, raises the tension. The bombshell plot twist toward the end will surprise most readers. Laurin knows how to ratchet up the suspense. Agent: Rachel Eckstrom Courage, Folio Literary Management. -
May 1, 2019
Two years into her marriage to literature professor Byron Westcott, a man 20 years her senior, Claire Westcott feels things going awry. As their passion ebbs, she ponders the death of Byron's starter wife, artist Colleen May, whose paintings still hang in Claire's home, a presumed suicide whose body was never found. But now Colleen seems to be sending Claire messages. And someone (an enamored student of Byron's?) is stalking Claire and has plans for a future with him that doesn't include her. Indications also are that Byron, in league with an unknown woman, is gaslighting Claire to make her question her sanity. As first-person-narrator Claire is questioning whether her life is in peril with Byron, her estranged older sister reappears in her life, and the plot takes a turn, revealing just whose safety and sanity are in question. Laurin, with her knack for psychological suspense, here portrays the effects of obsession in chilling detail as the facts of Claire's life are revealed. A spine-tingler.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
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