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A circle of wives: a novel

✍ Scribed by Alice LaPlante


Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.;Atlantic Monthly Press
Year
2014
Tongue
ar-SA
Weight
285 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0802192742

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


* An Indie Next Pick
* A LibraryReads Selection
* An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Mysteries & Thrillers)
* A Daily Candy Best Book of March
* One of More Magazine's "Five Thrillers Not to Read After Dark"

When Dr. John Taylor turns up dead in a hotel room, the local police uncover enough incriminating evidence to suspect foul play. Detective Samantha Adams, whose Palo Alto beat usually covers petty crimes, is innocently thrown into a high-profile case that is more complicated than any she has faced before. A renowned reconstructive surgeon and a respected family man, Dr. Taylor was beloved and admired. But beneath his perfect faΓ§ade was a hidden lifeβ€”in fact, multiple lives. Dr. Taylor was married to three very different women in three separate cities. As the circumstances surrounding his death emerge, Detective Adams finds herself tracking down a murderer through a tangled web of marital deception and revenge. New York Times...


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