Books by Alison Gaylin and Complete Book Reviews
Alison Gaylin, Author . Signet $5.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-21448-5
In journalist Gaylin's sharp debut suspense novel, preschool teacher and off-off-Broadway box office staffer Samantha Leiffer is happy with her offbeat life in downtown Manhattan—"the kind of muted happy that you don't notice at...
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Alison Gaylin, Author . Signet $6.99 (294p) ISBN 978-0-451-21722-6
Post-9/11 Manhattan is the ominous setting for Gaylin's deliciously chilling second thriller (after Hide Your Eyes
), in which preschool teacher Samantha Leiffer is still recovering from her brush with a murderer a year earlier. Her live-in cop...
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Alison Gaylin, Author . Obsidian $21.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-451-22113-1
Gaylin’s giddy hardcover debut follows young reporter Simone Glass on her short but shocking infiltration of Hollywood’s sleazy side. Simone, a recent Columbia journalism grad, heads for L.A. to work for a slick weekly that goes out of...
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Alison Gaylin, Author . NAL/Obsidian $21.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-451-22497-2
Occult horror meets chick-lit suspense in Gaylin’s entertaining if formulaic fourth novel. When investigative journalist Steve Sorenson hears that his best friend, celebrity reporter Zoe Greene, has fallen for soap opera star Warren Clark and...
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Alison Gaylin. Morrow, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-236985-7
Gaylin (Hide Your Eyes) smoothly alternates between past and present in this melodramatic Hollywood whodunit. In 1978, aspiring actress Catherine Lund, frustrated by her lack of acclaim, leaps to her death from an overlook in the San Gabriel Valley.
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Alison Gaylin. Morrow, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-264109-0
A violent carjacking sends shock waves through sleepy Havenkill, N.Y., in this moving character-driven standalone from Edgar-finalist Gaylin (What Remains of Me). The incident leaves high school football star Liam Miller, who was run over while...
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Alison Gaylin. Morrow, $16.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-284454-5
In this uneven thriller from Edgar finalist Gaylin (If I Die Tonight), Quentin Garrison, the interviewer for Closure, an L.A.-based podcast on the ongoing impact of murder, knows too well the lasting damage of a brutal crime. His mother’s younger...
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Alison Gaylin. Morrow, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-308315-8
Camille Gardener, the grief-stricken narrator of this gripping psychological thriller from Edgar winner Gaylin (If I Die Tonight), knows who raped her only child, Emily, at a Brayburn College frat party in upstate New York and left her to die in the
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Alison Gaylin. Morrow, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-327518-8
Edgar winner Gaylin (The Collective) delivers a timely thriller about the nefarious workings of cults and conspiracy theorists. Meg Russo and her husband, Justin, own a bookstore in the small town of Elizabethville, N.Y. The couple lives a quiet...
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