Behind Closed Doors - A Novel

Zusatztext Praise for Susan Lewis   “Spellbinding . . . The atmosphere grows more intense with the turn of each page.” —The Free Lance-Star ! on No Child of Mine   “Unputdownable . . . a compelling blend of family dynamics! courtroom drama! and a love story.” —Booklist ! on Don’t Let Me Go Informationen zum Autor Susan Lewis Klappentext For readers of Jodi Picoult! Heather Gudenkauf! and Elizabeth Flock comes a spellbinding tale of a girl gone missing-and the detective who will risk everything to find her. Detective Sergeant Andrea Lawrence is reluctant to take this emotionally charged case! but she can't help herself. In a small British seaside community! a fourteen-year-old girl has vanished. Sophie Monroe hasn't been seen since she fought-loudly! miserably-with her stepmother and father more than a week ago. But her frantic parents seem to be the only people concerned about Sophie's disappearance. Everyone else just assumes that an angry teenager is acting out by hiding for a while. Did someone help Sophie run away! or abduct her? Either way! Detective Andee is certain something bad has happened. As Andee investigates! two men jump to the top of the list of suspects-but neither of them can be located. And the deeper Andee delves into Sophie's life! the more she struggles to keep her own darkest fears at bay-because Andee knows all too well what happens when young girls are lost and never found. Praise for Susan Lewis "Spellbinding . . . The atmosphere grows more intense with the turn of each page."-The Free Lance-Star! on No Child of Mine "Unputdownable . . . a compelling blend of family dynamics! courtroom drama! and a love story."-Booklist! on Don't Let Me Go Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more. Leseprobe Chapter 1   Andrea Lawrence had taken a wrong turn in life. She’d known it for a long time now—it was impossible not to know it when it kept her company like a shadow or stepped out of nowhere to trip her up with a reminder. It could even make her feel like a stranger when she looked in the mirror, or force her to ask herself what she was doing when right in the middle of something serious. The trouble was, it was too late to turn back. All she could do was keep following the road she’d chosen at a time when she really hadn’t been thinking straight at all, and hope it would all come right in the end.   But how was it going to do that when so much had already gone so horribly wrong? She wasn’t in proper control, was making decisions that even she didn’t agree with, and pride—yes, she had to admit it, pride— was making it impossible to back down. And professionalism was playing its part, she mustn’t forget that, since she wasn’t bad at what she did; some even said she was made for it, but she knew that wasn’t true.   This was what was going round in her mind when a tentative voice said, “Hi .?.?. I don’t suppose you’ve got a minute?”   Looking up from the case notes she was supposed to be reading on her laptop, Andee’s aqua-green eyes, behind the frames of her progressive lenses, showed impatience, wariness, reserve, until she saw who was asking the favor: Barry Britten, one of her oldest friends and, as of a year ago, a colleague. She liked him, a lot. He was honest, funny, direct when he needed to be, and sensitively discreet. He was also one of the world’s best dads to his adorable year-old twins.   “As it’s you, I’ll make it two,” she replied, removing her feet from the chair they were resting on and putting the laptop aside. Though she was a woman who rarely turned heads at first glance, a second look might arrest attention, in spite of her efforts to blend into the world unnoticed for anyth...

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• Autori: Susan Lewis
• Editore: Ballantine
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.01.2015
• EAN: 9780345549518
• ISBN: 978-0-345-54951-8
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 220 mm x 23 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi