January 21, 2008
Jill Rohmer, a convicted child killer with a borderline personality disorder, lures Charlotte “Charley” Webb, a popular columnist for the Palm Beach Post
and single mom, into a web of danger and deceit in this spine-tingler from bestseller Fielding (Heartstopper
). When Jill invites Charley to collaborate on the “true story” of what really happened to the three children she was convicted of murdering, Charley at first thinks it sounds like a great idea. Her sister Anne is, after all, a bestselling romance author, so why couldn’t Charley have a nonfiction bestseller? Charley meets with Jill’s attractive lawyer, Alex Prescott, who secures a book contract. After committing to the project, Charley begins dating Alex. Then Charley learns Jill had an accomplice, someone on the loose whom Jill calls “Jack.” Fielding pulls out all the stops as the identity of the ruthless murderer becomes obvious, and Charley must race against time to catch the horrible Jack and save his next target—her son.
January 1, 2008
Fresh offthe solid thriller Heartstopper (2007), prolific, perennially best-selling Fielding delivers another suspenseful tale. Feisty Charley Webb is forever stirring up controversy with her popular column for the Palm Beach Post. But while her career is going great guns, her personal life is something of a struggle. Shes raising two children on her own, her satiricalcolumns about her neighbors hobbies and opinions have not made hervery popular in her residential community, andshe has only recently reestablished a relationship with her mother, who abandoned the family when Charley was eight. When she is asked to write a biography ofnotorious femaleserial killer Jill Rohmer, whose victims were children, she sees it as a chance to take her career to the next level. However, she is unprepared for the emotional toll that her interviews with the wily felon will exact, and she begins to receive a series of e-mails threatening harm to her own children. Despite the repetitive and, at times, inane dialogue, Fieldingturnsher latestpage-turnerinto a chillingly tense read while creating another winning lead in the smart-mouthed Charley.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)