Fragile

Zusatztext “A nail-biting! nuanced whodunit.” — People  “Intriguing! downright frightening. . . . [It] will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very last sentence.” — Las Vegas Review-Journal “A thrilling story that affects complicated and nuanced people. . . . Fragile delivers everything that Lisa Unger's readers have come to expect.” —Laura Lippman! author of I'd Know You Anywhere   “Unger keeps the energy level high . . . [and] the tension taut.” — Sun Sentinel “If you're a fan of Jodi Picoult's family chronicle storytelling! you'll enjoy Fragile ! too. . . . Unger balances nicely the suspense of her missing person story . . . with deeper sentiments.” — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel   “In the style of Jodi Picoult! Fragile tells its tale through the real-time action and freighted recollections of a diverse cast of characters.” — Boston Globe   “All of Unger’s characters in Fragile are keeping secrets! some of them truly dangerous. The ending is gripping! almost painful to read.” — Fredericksburg Freelance Star “Unger skillfully builds suspense. . . . Much of the emotional weight and considerable tension of Fragile have to do with families.” — St. Petersburg Times   “[An] entertaining and extremely readable mystery.” — Florida Times-Union   “Lisa Unger brings this little town alive with flourish. . . . [She] has a rare talent for exploring the vast pallet of human emotions! and she wraps that talent around a highly intriguing story.” — Bookreporter.com    “Unger specializes in thrillers involving family life! and she steps back from her suspense roots this time to tell a slow! simmering! tragic tale. Fans of authors like Jodi Picoult will want to read this one in a nice comfortable chair.” — Associated Press  Informationen zum Autor Lisa Unger Klappentext Maggie and Jones live with their teenage son, Rick, in The Hollows, a small town outside of New York City. The cozy intimacy of the town is broken when Rick's girlfriend, Charlene, mysteriously disappears. The investigation has Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely and Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn. Maggie finds herself drawn in both as a trained psychologist and as a mother, walking a tightrope that threatens the stability of her family. Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie pursues her own leads into Charlene's disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secret-one that could destroy everything she holds dear. Leseprobe Prologue When Jones Cooper was younger, he didn’t believe in mistakes. He thought that every road led you somewhere and wherever you wound up, that’s where you belonged. Regrets were for the shortsighted, for the small-minded. He didn’t believe that anymore. That was a young man’s arrogant way of looking at the world. And youth, among other things, had abandoned him long ago. Jones felt the full weight of all his regrets as he pulled his Ford Explorer off the small side road and engaged the four-wheel drive to haul himself through the muck. Over the last week, the late autumn weather had been wild—hot one day, cold with flurries the next, then warm again. Now a thunderstorm loomed, as if heaven itself had decided to launch a protest against the erratic conditions. By morning, his tracks would be lost. What had amazed him, what amazed him still, even after all these years, was how quickly he’d stepped out of himself. He’d slipped off every convention and moral that had defined him, a great cowl that fell to the floor with the unfastening of a single closure. The person beneath it was someone he barely recognized. He’d tried to tell himself over the years that the circu...

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Unger
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.07.2011
• EAN: 9780307745262
• ISBN: 978-0-307-74526-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 174 mm x 34 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense