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Informationen zum Autor Joy Fielding is an internationally bestselling author. Her novella, Home Invasion, was the winner of the Golden Oak Award. Five of her novels have been made into TV movies. She was named Author of the Year in 2005 by the Canada News Group. She was born in Toronto, Canada, and went to the University of Toronto, where she obtained her B.A. after majoring in English. Her acting ambitions took her to Hollywood, where she got a part in an episode of "Gunsmoke." She returned to Toronto to pursue her love of writing. Fielding currently divides her time between Toronto and Palm Springs. Klappentext New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding returns with MAD RIVER ROAD, a sexy, suspenseful novel of murder, romance, and revenge.After spending a year in prison, Ralph has explicit plans for his first night of freedom: tonight, someone will be held accountable. He goes to murderous lengths to learn the address of his former wife-the woman he blames for his fate, and has sworn vengeance against. Determined to bring her to his idea of justice, Ralph's next step is to travel from Florida to Ohio to find his ex-wife's house on Mad River Road.Also in Florida, Jamie Kellogg wakes from an agonizing nightmare of her mother's funeral, and assesses her life: a twenty-nine-year-old woman in a dead-end job, with an ex-husband in Atlanta, a married lover in the hospital, and a virtual stranger in her bed. But this stranger is everything the previous men in her life weren't: tender, attentive and adventurous. After convincing Jamie to quit her miserable job and ditch her judgmental, perfectionist sister, he proposes a romantic getaway. While Jamie wonders if this thrilling man might finally be her Prince Charming, they plan a road trip to visit his son, who lives with his mother on a street called Mad River Road. As riveting and beguiling as Joy Fielding's previous novels, including LOST, WHISPERS AND LIES and PUPPET, MAD RIVER ROAD is a novel about courage, truth and the need to trust one's instincts....
