cover image Peachtree Road

Peachtree Road

Anne Rivers Siddons. Ballantine Books, $6.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-345-36272-8

In ``a suspenseful tale featuring vividly portrayed characters,'' narrator Shepard Gibbs Bondurant III tells the story of his bewitchingly beautiful but manipulative, destructive cousin Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable. Siddons's ``imaginative plot twists make this hefty novel an absorbing page-turner,'' wrote PW. (Dec.)