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Locust Lane' is as perceptive as it is compulsively readable."--The Washington PostFor fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon's Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence in a seemingly idyllic town. Can anyone be trusted? On the surface, Emerson, Massachusetts, is just like any other affluent New England sub...

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Emerson ist die perfekte amerikanische Vorstadt - doch der Mord an einer jungen Frau treibt fünf Menschen an den Rand des Abgrunds. »Das Ende von Eden« ist ein fesselnder Kriminalroman über die Suche nach Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit in einem Geflecht aus Lügen, Geld und Macht. Emerson ist eine wohlhabende und scheinbar idyllische amerikanische Vorstadt. Doch dann wird die junge Eden in einer der schönsten Villen dort tot aufgefunden. Bald stel...

For fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon's Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence in a seemingly idyllic town. Can anyone be trusted?On the surface, Emerson, Massachusetts, is just like any other affluent New England suburb. But when a young woman is found dead in the nicest part of town, the powerful n...

Stephen Amidon's Human Capital is a gripping novel of new money, old jealousies, and the secret lives of parents and children in the suburbs. Now a major motion picture! It's the spring of 2001. Drew Hagel has spent the last decade watching things slip away-his marriage, his real estate brokerage, and his beloved daughter, Shannon, now a distant and mysterious high school senior. But as summer approaches, Drew forms an unexpected friendship wi...

Ella (Helen Mirren) und John (Donald Sutherland) sind schon viele Jahre verheiratet. Sie sind alt geworden, beide sind nicht mehr wirklich gesund, ihr Leben wird mittlerweile von Arztbesuchen und den Ansprüchen ihrer erwachsenen Kinder bestimmt. Um ein letztes richtiges Abenteuer zu erleben, machen die beiden ihr Oldtimer-Wohnmobil namens "The Leisure Seeker" flott und verlassen stillschweigend ihr Zuhause in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Verärger...

Amidon is the master of low-key but riveting suspense... Excellent entertainment.' Daily MailFrom one of America's leading novelists, a tense, page-turning novel of small town paranoia, public hysteria, private fear and human insecurity, for readers of Jonathan Franzen and John Irving.

Michael Coolidge non può dimenticare Justine. L'ha incontrata in un bar, insieme hanno passato quattro giorni di sconvolgente intimità, poi lei è scomparsa. Nove mesi dopo, la riconosce mentre litiga con un uomo in mezzo alla strada. Il giorno dopo lo stesso uomo viene trovato morto per overdose. Michael ne è turbato e intrigato, e decide di mettersi sulle tracce della ragazza. Ma come fare a trovarla? Tutto quello che possiede è una sua fotog...

The heart has consistently captured the human imagination. It has been singled out as a cultural icon, the repository of our deepest religious and artistic impulses, the organ whose steady functioning is understood, both literally and symbolically, as the very life force itself. The Sublime Engine will explore the profound sense of awe every person feels when they ponder the miracle encased within their ribs. In this lyrical history of our mos...

Drew Hagel ha trascorso gli ultimi dieci anni guardando la vita sgusciargli fra le dita: un matrimonio fallito, la sua attività che non è mai decollata, la figlia Shannon con cui non ha costruito un rapporto. Finché sopravviene l'amicizia di un potente finanziere, Quint Manning, che gli offre la possibilità del riscatto. Quello che Drew non sa è che anche Manning ha dei problemi simili ai suoi: una moglie delusa, un figlio alcolizzato e un.imm...

As the fortunes of two crumbling families become perilously interwoven, a terrible accident leads one of the patriarchs to begin speculating with human lives instead of money. The unforeseen consequences bring the novel to a devastating climax.

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There isn't much crime in Stoneleigh, Massachusetts, a college town, a mountain getaway for the quietly rich. So when Edward Inman, owner of Stoneleigh Sentinel security, gets a late-night alarm from the home of one of his wealthiest clients, Doyle Cutler, he does a routine check and thinks nothing more of it-until a local student claims that she was sexually assaulted that night at Cutler's house.Edward soon finds himself drawn into the girl'...

A thought-prooking thriller and a literate page-turner, Stephen Amidon's The New City takes aim at the suburban American dream and captures the real nightmare behind it.It is 1973, the Vietnam War is winding down and the Senate Watergate hearings are heating up. But Newton, Maryland, is a model community, an enclave of harmony and prosperity. Through years of cunning legal maneuvering and smooth real-estate deals, the white lawyer Austin Swope...