Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski knows from the start that Consuelo Alvarado's baby is trouble.Consuelo is sixteen.Diabetic.And the daughter of a friend.When she goes into labor too early, even V.I.'s wild drive to get her to the hospital can't save either Consuelo or her child.Soon V.I. is inves
The better sister: a novel
โ Scribed by Alafair Burke
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 188 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
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Keep your enemies close and your sister closer.
Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be the one in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky--always restless and more than a little reckless--was the opposite of her ambitious little sister. She floated from job to job and man to man, and stayed close to home in Cleveland.
For a while, it seemed that both sisters had found happiness. Chloe earned a scholarship to an Ivy League school and moved to New York City, where she landed a coveted publishing job. Nicky married promising young attorney Adam Macintosh and gave birth to a baby boy they named Ethan. The Taylor sisters became virtual strangers.
Now, more than fifteen years later, their lives are drastically...
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