Books by Heather Gudenkauf and Complete Book Reviews
Heather Gudenkauf, Author . Mira $13.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2740-0
Gudenkauf’s tightly plotted debut packs a lot of unsavory doings into a few unfortunate summer days in Willow Creek, Iowa. Seven-year-old Calli Clark hasn’t spoken a word in the three years since a particularly nasty run-in with her...
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Heather Gudenkauf, Mira, $15.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2879-7
Gudenkauf's scintillating second suspense novel (after The Weight of Silence) opens with the release of 21-year-old Allison Glenn from prison, where she has served five years for an unspecified but particularly horrible crime. Allison is reluctant...
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Heather Gudenkauf. Mira, $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1365-6
As Edgar-finalist Gudenkauf’s chilling third suspense novel opens, elementary school children and their teachers in Broken Branch, Iowa, are anxiously awaiting the dismissal that will herald the beginning of their spring vacation. Suddenly, the...
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Heather Gudenkauf. Mira, $15.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1633-6
Like her debut, The Weight of Silence, Gudenkauf’s latest explores the vulnerability of children, this time through two linked stories narrated in alternating chapters. Social worker Ellen Moore juggles responsibility for three children, a husband,...
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Heather Gudenkauf. Mira, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1865-1
Edgar-finalist Gudenkauf (Little Mercies) exchanges her usual child-centered, topical stories for an old-fashioned melodrama in her hardcover debut. Physical therapist Jack Quinlan and his advice columnist wife, Sarah, are enjoying a comfortable...
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Heather Gudenkauf. Park Row, $15.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1995-5
Former ER nurse Amelia Winn, the gutsy narrator of this moving thriller from Edgar-finalist Gudenkauf (Missing Pieces), is struggling to rebuild her life in rural Iowa, digitizing patient files in her new clerical job at the area’s largest cancer...
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Heather Gudenkauf, Author, Full Cast, Read by , read by James Colby, Eliza Foss, Cassandra Morris, Andy Paris, Therese Plummer Recorded Books $102.75 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4407-7695-3
This is the kind of compelling, can't-put-it-down audiobook that will have listeners driving around the block a few extra times just to find out what happens next. Taking turns to read (the narrative rotates between various points of view), the
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Heather Gudenkauf. Park Row, $16.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-7783-0773-0
This scintillating psychological thriller from bestseller Gudenkauf (Not a Sound) examines the cruelty of children, judgmental adults, and the consequences of pranks. Newcomer Violet Crow and class bully Jordyn Petit are having a sleepover at meek...
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Heather Gudenkauf. Park Row, $17.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7783-0970-3
Early in this suspenseful psychological thriller from bestseller Gudenkauf (Before She Was Found), Det. Maggie Kennedy-O’Keefe of the Grotto, Iowa, PD is assigned to a cold case, the murder of her 16-year-old best friend, Eve Knox, after two kids...
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Heather Gudenkauf. Park Row, $16.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1193-5
In this riveting thriller from bestseller Gudenkauf (This Is How I Lied), Oregon writer Wylie Lark retreats to an unoccupied, isolated farmhouse in Burden, Iowa, where two people were murdered and a little girl went missing in 2000. The murders and...
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