Joy Fielding Livres

Apparemment, Mattie Hart, trente-six ans, marchand d'art à Chicago, a tout pour être heureuse. Un mari avocat, le plus brillant sans doute de la ville, une fille adorable, une ravissante maison, un métier qu'elle adore. Apparemment... Si Jake a épousé Mattie, il y a seize ans, c'est seulement parce qu'il l'avait mise enceinte. Il la trompe depuis des années. Et s'apprête aujourd'hui à la quitter pour sa nouvelle maîtresse. Leur vie à tous deux bascule lorsque Mattie apprend qu'elle est atteinte d'une maladie rarissime et meurtrière. Jake décide de rester à ses côtés. Il ne peut la laisser lutter seule. Mari et femme n'ont que peu de temps pour se dire ce qu'ils ont tu toutes ces années... L'urgence les délivre, leur permet de se découvrir. Et de s'aimer, enfin. Mais pour combien de temps ?

Echaudée par une mauvaise expérience avec sa précédente locataire, partie en pleine nuit avec plusieurs mois de loyers impayés, Terry hésite à louer de nouveau le cottage au fond de son jardin. Mais lorsque Alison, si gentille et si drôle, se présente à elle, ses réticences s'envolent en une seconde. Une profonde amitié commence à se nouer entre les deux femmes, mais peu à peu les doutes et les soupçons assaillent Terry. Alison est-elle vraiment la personne douce et innocente qu'elle prétend être, et sa présence auprès de Terry est-elle vraiment le fruit du hasard?

Psychothérapeute, Kate Sinclair résout les problèmes des autres tout en menant une vie de famille heureuse ... Mais quand sa demi-sœur lui annonce son intention d'épouser un homme jugé pour le meurtre de treize femmes, le bel édifice chancelle. En voulant protéger les siens Kate provoque la colère et la haine. Peu à peu le havre de paix familial est insidieusement envahi par les conflits, les désirs malsains, les rancœurs trop longtemps tues, les déchirements, la violence ... Au cœur de cette tempête : le meurtrier, son goût de la manipulation, son art de fasciner ses victimes, son amour du sang. Avec quelles armes Kate va-t-elle pouvoir combattre la bête qui s'est glissée dans sa maison, dans sa famille, dans son couple? [payot.ch]

'I think my real name is Samantha. I think I'm your daughter.' Caroline Shipley's heart nearly stops when she hears those words from the voice on the other end of the phone. Instantly, she's thrust 15 years into the past, to a posh resort in Baja, Mexico and the fateful night her world collapsed. The trip is supposed to be a celebration. Caroline's husband, Hunter, convinces her to leave their two young daughters, Michelle and Samantha, alone in their hotel suite while the couple enjoys an anniversary dinner in the restaurant downstairs. But returning afterward, Caroline and Hunter make a horrifying discovery: Two-year-old Samantha has vanished without a trace. What follows are days, weeks and years of anguish for Caroline. She's tormented by media attention that has branded her a cold, incompetent mother, while she struggles to save her marriage. Caroline also has to deal with the demands of her needy elder daughter, Michelle, who is driven to cope in dangerous ways. Through it all, Caroline desperately clings to the hope that Samantha will someday be found only to be stung again and again by cruel reality. Plunged back into the still-raw heartbreak of her daughter's disappearance, and the suspicions and inconsistencies surrounding a case long gone cold, Caroline doesn't know whom or what to believe. The only thing she can be sure of is that someone is fiercely determined to hide the truth of what happened to Samantha.

Charley Webb schrijft een populaire maar controversiële column voor een grote krant in Florida. Ze heeft geleerd zich niets aan te trekken van de kritiek van lezers, maar nu ontvangt ze voor het eerst bedreigingen - tegen Charley zelf, maar ook tegen haar kinderen. De bedreigingen worden grimmiger en serieuzer als ze besluit de biografie van Jill Rohmer te schrijven. Na de moord op drie kleine kinderen zit Jill in de gevangenis en wacht ze op de voltrekking van haar doodstraf. Charley ontdekt dat Jill een handlanger heeft gehad, een onbekende man die ze Jack noemt. En Jack weet meer van Charley en haar kinderen dan iemand kan vermoeden...(

Amanda Travis is a high-powered, 28-year-old lawyer whose greatest likes are spinning classes at her Palm Beach gym and a compliant jury. As for the things she hates, they include nicknames, the color pink, clients who don't follow her advice... and memories. Unfortunately, running from her past becomes a lot harder when one of her ex-husbands calls from her hometown of Toronto with the alarming news that her mother has shot and killed a complete stranger. Now she must return to face her demons--a love that once consumed her and a mother who seems to hold a strange, dark power over everyone she encounters. But Amanda is no longer willing to acquiesce to her mother's fatal whims--no matter what the cost.

Ever since she was a child, Julia Carver has tested her mother Cindy's nerves and tried her patience. Forever willful and self-absorbed, Julia, now twenty-one and an aspiring actress, moves back home when her father remarries -- and turns Cindy's household into chaos. But when Julia doesn't return after a promising audition with a Hollywood film director, Cindy knows it's more than just typical Julia dramatics -- and a frantic search begins. Now, secrets are revealed, lives are forever altered, and Cindy is forced to acknowledge the disturbing truth about the daughter she realizes she never really knew.

Torrance, Florida. Population: 4,160. A safe place where residents feel comfortable leaving their doors unlocked and allowing their children to run freely. It's here that high school English teacher Sandy Crosbie is establishing a new life for herself and her teenage children, following the painful and very public breakdown of her marriage. But when the body of the most popular girl at Torrance High is found buried in a shallow, swampy grave, everyone in the cosy community becomes a suspect. Suddenly it seems that everyone has something to hide. A down-on-his-luck sheriff must wade through the murkier depths of smalltown secrets to determine who the killer is. And when the body count rises to three, Sandy Crosbie must do everything in her power to help protect her family and target the attacker before it's too late.

Torrance, Florida, is a small town where people leave their doors open and children play outside unsupervised, creating an ideal setting for a murderer targeting young girls.

Beautiful, happily married, and the owner of a successful interior design business, Casey Marshall couldn't be more content with her life. Until a car slams into her at fifty miles an hour, breaking nearly every bone in her body - and plunging her into a coma. Lying in her hospital bed, Casey realizes that, although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. As the visitor gather at her bedside, she is horrified to discover that her friends aren't necessarily the people she thought them to be - and that her accident might not have been an accident at all. As she struggles to break free from her living death, Casey determines to find out and somehow expose the truth. Whatever it takes.