Patricia Macdonald Books

Laura has it all.A loving husband, a five-year-old son, a flourishing career and a beautiful home on the shore.New Year's Eve. An intruder in a ski mask invades her beautifully restored Victorian home. He knocks her unconscious and shoots her husband dead in their bed.Her perfect life just ended.The police think she's lying about what happened. And now she's the prime suspect for her husband's murder.But if she didn't do it, who did?An electrifying blend of high domestic suspense, heart-stopping tension - with a shattering final twist. Perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, T.M. Logan, B.A. Paris, Liane Moriarty, Claire Dyer, Sam Carrington, Celeste Ng.

Hailed as "one of the best practitioners of romantic suspense" (The Plain Dealer), Patricia MacDonald unfolds a masterful thriller that explores how far a mother will go to save her troubled son. WAS IT AN ACCIDENT OR WAS IT MURDER? Years ago, Keely Bennett's world was shattered by her husband's suicide -- witnessed by her young son, Dylan. Determined to go on, Keely has remarried, and now lives a comfortable life with a newborn baby girl. The darkness of the past is all but forgotten -- until the nightmare begins again, and this time the authorities think it's murder. The prime Dylan, now a brooding, troubled teen. To clear her son's name, Keely must battle her own worst fears, an indifferent police force, and a D.A. with a vengeful agenda. But someone very close to her is watching her every move. And as her investigation threatens to expose a conspiracy of secrets and lies, Keely steps into the sights of a killer who will stop at nothing to bury the truth forever....

Twelve-year-old Jenny Newhall meets her natural mother, Linda Emery, but the reunion is short-lived--Linda is soon found murdered, and Jenny's adoptive father is the prime suspect.

She's out to clear his father's name... and caught in killer's sights. The affluent town of Hoffman, Ney Jersey, was shattered when esteemed doctor Duncan Avery stabbed his wife to death one spring evening. Now, fifteen years later, struggling actress Nina Avery -- who never doubted her father's innocence -- returns to Hoffman when he is paroled and moves home. Not only does Dr. Avery want to repair his relationship with Nina and her two brothers, successful investment banker Patrick and recovering drug addict Jimmy, he wants to find the real killer. But when violence overturns the Averys' lives again, Nina no longer knows who she can trust. Relying only on herself and on the mysterious prison doctor who treated her father, she searches frantically for the truth. But she must dig deep down into the secrets of her family and her town if she stands the chance of catching the killer who has his sight set on the new her.

On being told that her estranged mother has killed herself and her severely disabled young son, Eden Radley heads to Cleveland, Ohio, in search of answers. She discovers there was so much she didn't know about her mother and her troubled, enigmatic stepfather, Flynn. But of one thing Eden is increasingly certain: her mother's death was no suicide.

Hannah, Adam und die kleine Sydney haben es geschafft, sich unter neuen Namen in Philadelphia ein zweites Leben aufzubauen. Doch die hart erarbeitete Sicherheit gerät ins Wanken, als durch einen Zufall das Medieninteresse an der Familie geweckt wird und die Gesichter der drei, die nie wieder auffindbar sein wollten, in allen Zeitungen auftauchen. Denn Hannah und ihre Familie teilen ein grausames Geheimnis, das nun ein weiteres Mal droht, ihr Leben in einen Alptraum zu verwandeln. Und ihr größter Feind ist jemand, den sie am meisten lieben …

Catlin a tout pour être heureuse : un mari avocat qu'elle adore et un beau-fils de six ans qu'elle élève comme le sien puisqu'il a perdu sa mère. Mais quand le petit Geordie disparaît un jour où elle le conduit à l'école, ce rêve de famille idéale s'effondre. Bientôt son mari la croit coupable alors que tous les mensonges sur lesquels elle a bâti son mariage font surface. Séparée de son mari, en proie au désespoir, Catlin va tout faire pour retrouver Geordie et prouver qu'elle mérite l'amour des siens. Mais il lui faudra pour cela mettre au jour de terribles secrets de famille...