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In this tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day, a woman prepares for a party that goes dreadfully wrong - for fans of Ashley Audrain and Lisa Jewell.Nadine Walsh's summer garden party is in full swing. The neighbors all have cocktails, the catered food is exquisite - everything's going according to plan. But Nadine - devoted wife, loving mother, and doting daughter - finds herself standing over a dead body in her basement while her guests clink glasses upstairs. What happened? How did it come to this? Rewind to that morning, when we find Nadine in her kitchen, making her last-minute preparations before she welcomes over a hundred guests to her home to celebrate her mother's birthday. But her husband is of little help to her; her two grown children are consumed with their own concerns; and her mother - only her mother knows that today isn't just a birthday party.
About the Author
Amy Stuart's first novel, Still Mine, was an instant national bestseller in Canada and is now available in the US!Currently at work on the sequel to Still Mine, Amy won the 2011 Writers' Union of Canada Short Fiction Competition and was a finalist for the 2012 Vanderbilt/Exile Award. In 2012, Amy completed her MFA in Creative Writing. When not writing, she is a guidance counsellor at an alternative high school.Amy was born in Toronto where she still lives with her husband and their three sons. Aside from writing, she loves hockey. Ice hockey.
