Still Water
An absolutely gripping private investigator crime novel
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- 1,99 €
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- 1,99 €
Publisher Description
How do you find the truth in a town full of secrets?
When Sally Proulx and her son mysteriously disappear from the stormy town of High River, Clare O’Dey is hired to track them down. She hopes to find them alive, but High River is not a typical town. It is a place where women go to escape their past. The women run to Helen Haines, the community matriarch, who offers them safe haven and anonymity.
Pretending to be Sally’s long lost friend, Clare starts asking questions but nothing prepares her for the deception and lies simmering beneath the surface of this quiet little neighbourhood. As the truth surges through High River, Clare must confront the thing she has been so desperately running from, even if it comes at a devastating cost.
Gripping, twisty and compulsive, Still Water is a deep dive of a thriller that will leave you breathless, perfect for fans of Louise Penny and Liz Nugent.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Stuart's engrossing but over-plotted psychological thriller, Clare O'Dey, who fled an abusive husband in 2016's Still Mine, has her doubts about helping mysterious PI Malcolm Boon, whom her husband hired to track her down in the previous book, find another missing woman. The last time they teamed up, Clare was nearly killed, but Malcolm knows that empathetic Clare will be unable to refuse the case of Sally Proulx. Sally and her two-year-old son have vanished from the women's refuge in High River, a remote western town that could be in either the U.S. or the author's native Canada. It doesn't take long after Clare's arrival in High River, where she pretends to be an old friend of Sally's, for her to suspect that almost everyone is hiding some pretty dangerous secrets including attractive detective Colin Rourke, who's codirecting the local police investigation. Although the myriad plot strands end up needlessly muddying matters, a complex heroine to whom readers will relate and the vividly evoked natural setting save the day.
