Paula Daly
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Lisa Kallisto is doing her best to juggle the demands of an overburdened life. She holds down a busy job running an animal shelter, cares for three demanding children, and worries that her husband isnt getting enough attention. During an incredibly hectic week, Lisa takes her eye off the ball for a moment and her world descends into a nightmare. Her best friends thirteen-year-old daughter goes missing, and it is all Lisas fault. Wracked with guilt...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"When Carrie was accused of brutally murdering her husband's lover, she denied it. She denied it again when they found her blood inside the victim's house, again when they put her in front of a jury, and again when they sent her to prison. Now three years into her fifteen-year sentence, gradually losing hope and separated from her pregnant daughter, she is still maintaining her innocence. Tess is the only employee of Innocence UK, a charity that helps...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Haven't we all wanted to pretend everything's perfectly fine? Jane Campbell avoids confrontation at all costs. Given the choice, she'll always let her husband, Leon--a bestselling thriller author--fight their battles. She'd prefer to focus on the good things in life: precious days with her two young children, a steady and loving marriage, their mischievously playful cat Bonita, and her fulfilling job as a creative writing teacher. In Jane's eyes,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Paula Daly is acclaimed for her distinctive voice, masterful plotting, and terrifying depictions of ordinary people whose everyday lives are turned upside down through deception and murder. 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...