The Others
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3.2 • 15 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A biting and propulsive thriller in which a pact made twenty years before lands one woman at the heart of a murder investigation—but is she the next victim, or the primary suspect?
“Singularly creepy." ―New York Times Book Review
“A dark and funny page-turner.” ―Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, author of Waking Lions
As soon as Sheila hears the news, she knows the police will be calling. Dina Kaminer—one of Israel’s preeminent feminist scholars and Sheila’s oldest friend—has been found murdered, the word “mother” carved into her forehead and a baby doll fixed to her hands.
For Sheila, that word is a warning. Two decades before, she and Dina had joined a group of women who swore they would never have children. Instead, they would follow the example of “The Others,” women the Torah considered childless, but they saw as willingly child-free. Sheila has upheld her vow year after year, even as her friendship with Dina fell apart. But now, as more women turn up dead, each transformed into a mother against her will, Sheila must decide if she’s made the right choice . . . and who might want to make her pay the ultimate price.
An instant international bestseller with shades of The Perfect Nanny and My Sister, the Serial Killer, The Others is a dark, witty, and riveting psychological thriller.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Israeli author Blau makes her English-language debut with a brashly original if plot-challenged psychological thriller. Provocative, passionate, and stubborn Israeli feminist scholar Dina Kaminer has inflamed more than her share of haters, especially as an advocate for the childfree lifestyle. But who loathed her enough to murder her, then turn the corpse into a macabre tableau, the word Mother printed across her forehead and a baby doll glued to her hand? Micha Yarden, a young police detective, questions Sheila Heller, Dina's academic rival, who, back in college as part of Dina's flamboyant posse, pledged to defy conventional female roles—particularly the notion of motherhood as civic duty—but during the two decades since turned acid-tongued frenemy. Overwrought and at times outright lying, Sheila seems a slam dunk person of interest—or maybe she's simply terrified of becoming the next victim. The twisty, often sardonic narrative shifts neatly between the ongoing investigation and secrets of the women's emotionally fraught past. Blau offers a revealing glimpse into a world not often seen outside her homeland.
