Kelly Simmons, Author . Atria $23 (263p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8972-6
What mother wouldn’t sacrifice herself for her child? In Simmons’s electrifying debut, the answer is delivered through the harrowing ordeal of a mother held for ransom by an anonymous kidnapper. A former globetrotting journalist now...
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Kelly Simmons, Washington Square, $14 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6093-0
Simmons (Standing Still) smoothly shifts between past and present in her complex and poignant second novel, told from the point of view of a courageous woman suffering from dementia. Ann Biddle, a venerable Main Line lady, may have trouble...
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Kelly Simmons. Sourcebooks Landmark, $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4926-1864-5
A grieving mother confronts her past in Simmons's strange, wrenching ghost story. It's been over a year since Carrie Morgan's two-year-old son, Ben, disappeared, and she and her husband, John, are no closer to healing. When Ben suddenly reappears in
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Kelly Simmons. Sourcebooks Landmark, $15.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4926-8750-4
Maggie O’Farrell, the heroine of this uneven psychological thriller from Simmons (One More Day), has always been close to her only child, Emma, and her worries about her college-age daughter have ramped up since drug dealers murdered her police...
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Kelly Simmons. Sourcebooks Landmark, $16.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-7282-1766-6
Near the start of this middling domestic thriller from Simmons (Where She Went), six-year-old Liza Harris disappears while catching frogs at the creek bordering her Philadelphia Main Line neighborhood. After canvassing the community, the police...
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