Safe As Houses

Safe as Houses

✍ Eric Walters 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Tundra Book Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 126 KB

The date is October 15, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Weston, is a typical grade 8 girl. She has a secret crush on a boy in her class and she thinks Elvis Presley is "dreamy." Elizabeth also has a part-time job babysitting an adorable little grade 2 girl named

Safe as Houses

✍ Susan Glickman 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Cormorant Books 🌐 English ⚖ 181 KB

Liz Ryerson believes that Hillcrest Village, her Toronto neighbourhood, is quaint and quiet, but stumbling over a corpse while walking her dog dissolves that illusion for good. When she realizes that she actually knew the dead man, a real estate broker who appraised the building she coowns with her

Safe as Houses

✍ Bertino, Marie-Helene 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 University of Iowa Press 🌐 English ⚖ 82 KB

Overview: Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young d

Safe as Houses

✍ der Vlugt, Simone van 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Canongate Books 🌐 English ⚖ 248 KB

A single mother stands in the garden of her isolated house, hanging out the washing, when suddenly a man appears. When he grabs at her, Lisa runs, but she is not quick enough. Suddenly Lisa and her young daughter find themselves held hostage in their own home. In the following hours and days, Li

Safe as Houses

✍ der Vlugt, Simone van 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Canongate Books 🌐 English ⚖ 126 KB

A single mother stands in the garden of her isolated house, hanging out the washing, when suddenly a man appears. When he grabs at her, Lisa runs, but she is not quick enough. Suddenly Lisa and her young daughter find themselves held hostage in their own home. In the following hours and days, Lisa

Safe as Houses

✍ Kelly Creighton 📂 Fiction 📅 2023 🌐 English ⚖ 135 KB

Some families evolve. Some erupt. Travelling through Norway after a tough year of loss, DI Harriet Sloane leaves her family behind and falls into the company of strangers. Some of whom help her shake loose for a while. One of whom is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. When their paths cross, Harriet m