Diane Chamberlain, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-06-017907-6
Although one significant secret in this many-layered novel will fail to surprise readers, the brisk, atmospherically evocative narrative is absorbing reading. Eden Riley, an Oscar-winning actress and recently divorced mother of a four-year-old,...
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Diane Chamberlain. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-01070-4
In this heart-wrenching historical fiction, prolific author Chamberlain focuses on a time in North Carolina’s history that most people would rather forget. It’s 1960, and Jane is a 21-year-old newlywed who’s just accepted a job as a social worker,...
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Diane Chamberlain. Mira, $14.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1346-5
Prolific author Chamberlain (Kiss River) explores themes of family loyalty, grief, and healing around Travis Brown, a good man in an impossible situation. Twenty-three-year-old single dad Travis is struggling to get by with his young daughter, Bella,
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Diane Chamberlain. Mira, $15.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2986-2
Chamberlain (The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes) unravels a heartbreaking mystery about a midwife whose suicide opens the door to her dark past. Noelle Downie was an unconventional beauty whose calling as a midwife defined her among her friends, Tara...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-017651-8
A young mother who has a secret in her past and an ache in her heart is the heroine of Chamberlain's (Reflection) latest novel, a fairly pedestrian affair that would do well as a made-for-TV movie. Boulder, Colo., bank secretary Susanna Miller has...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017652-5
Lightning strikes an elderly woman in the gripping beginning of Chamberlain's (Brass Ring) latest. Too bad the electricity ends there, as the story slackens into an unlikely, melodramatic, often sentimental tale of tragedy, unrequited love and...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (402p) ISBN 978-0-06-017712-6
The venerable theme of the stranger who comes to a community and acts as a catalyst for change and redemption receives an entertaining treatment in this new novel by the author of Lovers and Strangers. Years of drought and devastating brush fires...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author HarperCollins Publishers $21 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-017612-9
Chamberlain's latest novel (after Private Relations) is an empathic but honey-coated tale of one woman's journey into her long-buried past, and of the lingering impact of her disturbing discoveries. Therapists Claire Harte-Mathias and her husband,...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author HarperCollins Publishers $5.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-109950-2
Actress Eden Riley discovers her true relationship to the ``uncle'' who raised her and embarks on a steamy affair with an archeologist after she returns home to film her deceased mother's life story. ``Although one significant secret in this many-lay
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Diane Chamberlain, Author . Mira $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-55166-882-6
Healing, be it psychological, physiological or spiritual, informs this humane but too-familiar novel from veteran writer Chamberlain (The Courage Tree, etc.). The daughter of '60s free spirits, Joelle D'Angelo is a recently divorced,...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (435p) ISBN 978-0-06-017964-9
With her fourth novel (after Secret Lives ), Chamberlain spins an absorbing tale of romantic obsession and betrayal. Beautiful artist Annie O'Neill is known as St. Anne on North Carolina's Outer Banks for her selfless devotion to any cause that...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author Mira Books $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-55166-799-7
A race against time to find a sick child lost in the West Virginia wilderness keeps pages turning in this suspenseful family drama by former psychotherapist Chamberlain (Breaking the Silence). Janine Donohue lives with her eight-year-old daughter,...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author Mira Books $5.99 (408p) ISBN 978-1-55166-509-2
Twenty years after 11-year-old Daria Cato found a baby abandoned on a beach in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., she is still very much a part of the child's life. Daria's parent's had adopted the infant, but now they are dead and she has accepted...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author Mira Books $5.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-55166-484-2
Chamberlain (The Escape Artist) explores psychiatric tensions in this disturbing story of dark secrets and redemption. Before astronomer Laura Brandon's father dies, he asks her to visit Sarah Tolley, an elderly woman he's never before mentioned....
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Diane Chamberlain, Author . Mira $13.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2853-7
A hurricane's aftermath affects two sisters whose parents were murdered when they were teens in Chamberlain's (Secrets She Left Behind
) murky melodrama. Maya is a frustrated pediatric orthopedist who continues to miscarry the babies her...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author . Mira $13.95 (470p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2541-3
Chamberlain (The Bay at Midnight
) lays out her latest piece of romantic suspense in a shattered chronology that’s as graceful as it is perfectly paced. Most of the adults in the tightly knit coastal community of Topsail Island, N.C., accept...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author . Mira $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2146-0
Family secrets sizzle at the core of an unsolved mystery in this smooth, deceptively simple tale of romantic suspense from Chamberlain (In Her Mother's Shadow
). During the summer of '62, two families vacationing at the Jersey shore, the...
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Diane Chamberlain, Author . Mira $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2017-3
Chamberlain (Kiss River
; Keeper of the Light
; etc.) bridges the gap between romance and relationship novels in another tale of lost family and found love on North Carolina's Outer Banks. On Christmas 1990, 13-year-old Lacey O'Neill watches
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Diane Chamberlain. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-08727-0
Bestseller Chamberlain (Necessary Lies) conveys a strong sense of daily life in the American South during WWII, and the concurrent devastation of the polio epidemic, in this well-crafted crime-tinged tale of a marriage of convenience. Theresa “Tess”
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Diane Chamberlain. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-08730-0
Chamberlain’s exciting and heartfelt novel (after The Stolen Marriage) follows one woman who risks everything to travel through time and save the life of her unborn child. In 1970, after the death of her husband in the Vietnam War, pregnant Carly...
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Diane Chamberlain. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-08733-1
This rich novel from Chamberlain (The Silent Sister) tracks artists whose lives intertwine after a mural is commissioned for a small town. In 1939, 22-year-old New Jersey artist Anna Dale is in Edenton, N.C., having won a federal art contest and...
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Diane Chamberlain. St. Martin’s Press, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-26796-2
Chamberlain (Big Lies in a Small Town) delivers the goods with this affecting and spellbinding account of a community’s buried secrets. In 2010, North Carolina architect Kayla Carter reluctantly prepares to move into her dream home with her three-yea
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