Shell Games
Nominated for an Edgar Award
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A dazzling thriller about a young woman whose fabulously wealthy mother might be the victim of an elaborate con or might be losing her mind—and the daughter can’t tell where the truth lies.
Julie’s mother Kate is a force of nature—a glamorous woman of seventy, a self-made real estate developer, a grande dame in Florida society, and a power broker in Florida politics. It wasn’t easy for Julie to grow up in the shadow of such a dynamo, but she loves her mother, and she and her husband Eric are thrilled when Kate marries her long-lost high school sweetheart, a salt-of-the-earth man named Charlie.
But their storybook romance ends abruptly. On their wedding night, Kate calls the police in hysterics to report that Charlie just confessed to a notorious unsolved crime from decades before.
Praise
“Un-put-downable . . . .Kistler masterfully keeps the action thrumming with a series of subtle ground-shifts that force readers to recalculate everyone’s motives. The narrative never veers into implausibility as the misdeeds and double-crossings stack up, resulting in the rare page-turner that doesn’t deflate in its final act. This will keep readers up all night.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“… an absolutely perfect setup . … A wonderfully suspenseful, twist-filled, edge-of-your-seat story that builds to a smashing conclusion. As good as Kistler’s previous books were, and they were very good indeed, this is hands down her best novel so far.”
— Booklist
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Her, Too
Defending an accused rapist, a high-powered lawyer learns firsthand the terrible truth about her client . . . a discovery that propels her on a quest for revenge in this addictively readable thriller from the author of The Cage.
Kelly McCann is a fighter. She’s fought to build a successful legal career, fought to provide for her family, and, above all, fought to win for her clients. Her specialty is defending men accused of sex crimes, either at trial or by silencing their victims with hush money settlements. Her detractors call her a traitor to her gender, but she doesn’t care. Kelly simply loves to win, and as the story opens, she’s done it again, securing an acquittal for a renowned scientist accused of sexually assaulting his female employees.
The Cage
Combining the propulsive narrative drive of The Firm with the psychological complexity of The Silent Patient, a gripping and original thriller about two professional women—colleagues at an international fashion conglomerate—who enter an elevator together… but only one is alive when they reach the ground floor.
On a cold, misty Sunday night, two women are alone in the offices of fashion conglomerate Claudine de Martineau International. One is the company’s human resources director. Impeccably dressed and perfectly coiffed, she sits at her desk and stares somberly out the window. Down the hall, her colleague, one of the company’s lawyers, is buried under a pile of paperwork, frantically rushing to finish.
About Bonnie
Bonnie Kistler is a former Philadelphia attorney and the author of House on Fire and The Cage. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College, magna cum laude, with Honors in English literature, and she received her law degree from the University of the Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a moot court champion and legal writing instructor.