Bücher von Patricia MacDonald

Two estranged sisters.One obsessive boyfriend.A dark secret that could destroy them all.Beth has the perfect life. She's the one who escaped her bleak hometown and now she's got a successful business, a devoted boyfriend, and her dream home.Then one phone call changes everything . . .Her father is dead. And Beth must go home to Maine to take care of her fourteen-year-old little sister who she hasn't seen in eight years.Her little sister is dating a dangerous man. He's too old for her. Obsessive and controlling.And he'll do anything to keep Beth's little sister to himself.

Meet Maddy Blake, devoted wife and mom.Always stood by her husband.Getting her life back together.But now all her hard work is about to be destroyed.A teenage baby-sitter and the baby boy she's looking after are abducted. Her naked body is discovered in the woods. The little boy is still missing.Witnesses put Maddy's husband, Doug, at the scene of the crime.She stood by him when he was accused of the ultimate betrayal, but can she trust him now?

Laura has it all.A loving husband, a five-year-old son, a flourishing career and a beautiful home on the shore.New Year's Eve. An intruder in a ski mask invades her beautifully restored Victorian home. He knocks her unconscious and shoots her husband dead in their bed.Her perfect life just ended.The police think she's lying about what happened. And now she's the prime suspect for her husband's murder.But if she didn't do it, who did?An electrifying blend of high domestic suspense, heart-stopping tension - with a shattering final twist. Perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, T.M. Logan, B.A. Paris, Liane Moriarty, Claire Dyer, Sam Carrington, Celeste Ng.

She's out to clear his father's name... and caught in killer's sights. The affluent town of Hoffman, Ney Jersey, was shattered when esteemed doctor Duncan Avery stabbed his wife to death one spring evening. Now, fifteen years later, struggling actress Nina Avery -- who never doubted her father's innocence -- returns to Hoffman when he is paroled and moves home. Not only does Dr. Avery want to repair his relationship with Nina and her two brothers, successful investment banker Patrick and recovering drug addict Jimmy, he wants to find the real killer. But when violence overturns the Averys' lives again, Nina no longer knows who she can trust. Relying only on herself and on the mysterious prison doctor who treated her father, she searches frantically for the truth. But she must dig deep down into the secrets of her family and her town if she stands the chance of catching the killer who has his sight set on the new target: her.

Patricia MacDonald has captivated readers worldwide with her page-turning suspense novels that are filled with surprising twists and turns and psychologically perceptive characterizations. Now MacDonald delivers her most masterful work to date -- a chilling thriller about a woman who, while investigating her sister's death in a house fire of suspicious origin, uncovers the work of a twisted killer who has taken refuge in an idyllic Vermont town. When Boston cable television news producer Britt Andersen learns of the death of her beautiful sister, Greta, she heads straight for her sister's hometown. Estranged from Greta since their father died, Britt meets for the first time her attractive brother-in-law, Alec Lynch, the owner of a successful snowmobile dealership, and her eleven-year-old niece, Zoe, who narrowly escaped the fire with her life. Surprised by the emotional bond that springs up between her and Zoe, Britt decides to spend time with her sister's family to help her niece recover from the tragedy. But soon Britt clashes with her brother-in-law and picks up clues about her sister's unhappy marriage and Alec's likely infidelity. When the fire marshal discovers the house fire was set deliberately, Britt pushes the police to question Alec more closely. An outsider in a small town whose ways she doesn't understand, Britt finds it difficult to sort the truth from the gossip and the innuendos. Why does Dr. Olivia Farrar, with whom Greta worked, hold a grudge against Alec? Is pretty Lauren Rossi merely Alec's devoted employee or "e;the other woman"e;? And what do the Carmichaels, Alec's former neighbors, really know about the events that led to the deadly conflagration? When Britt learns a closely guarded family secret she begins to question everything she believed about her sister's life and death...and unwittingly places herself on a collision course with a killer. With a vibrant cast of memorable characters, unerring insight into the dark side of human nature and exciting twists of plot, Suspicious Origin holds readers engrossed as it races to its stunning, emotionally charged conclusion.