Books by Joy Fielding and Complete Book Reviews

Don Wallace, Author, Joy Fielding, Author Soho Press $18.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-939149-44-5
Wallace's first novel is a humorous but unstructured tale of American pastimes and obsessions, whose protagonist is Gar Foote, the general manager of a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Valhalla, Miss. Working for Coke never provides as much excitement...
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Joy Fielding, Author Onyx Books $6.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-40230-1
Renee, a feisty lawyer, tolerates the cruelty and selfishness of her own husband as she shrewdly counsels a client whose husband has left her for another woman. ``A fast read with an upbeat ending,'' wrote PW while remarking that ``Fielding is less...
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Joy Fielding. Ballantine, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-18152-8
Los Angeles therapist Robin Davis, the star of this suspenseful if workmanlike thriller from bestseller Fielding (She’s Not There), hasn’t been in touch with most of her family for years—until someone shoots her father, autocratic property developer
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Joy Fielding. Ballantine, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-39063-6
This engrossing standalone from bestseller Fielding (Shadow Creek) makes you care about Bailey Carpenter, a Miami-based investigator who’s raped while on surveillance. Previously, the biggest problems in Bailey’s life had been her mother’s death,...
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Joy Fielding. Atria/Emily Bestler, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8815-3
In this chilling tale of serial killers on the loose from bestseller Fielding (Now You See Her), Valerie Rowe and two Manhattan friends decide at the last minute to head up to the Lodge at Shadow Creek in the Adirondacks to celebrate her 40th...
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Joy Fielding, Atria, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8531-2
Fielding (The Wild Zone) delivers another emotional blitz in this story about Marcy Taggart, who, at 50, is newly divorced and mourning her daughter, Devon, who two years ago disappeared in a boating accident and is presumed dead. On what was to be...
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Joy Fielding, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-48521-0
Practical Kate Sinclair, 47, a family therapist married for 24 years and the mother of two teenaged daughters, is losing control of her orderly, settled life. She fights with her rebellious elder daughter, Sara, who's 17. Her mother is diagnosed...
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Joy Fielding, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (356p) ISBN 978-0-688-12673-5
Despite crisp prose and sharp dialogue, this latest thriller from Fielding (Tell Me No Secrets) disappoints due to a meandering plot full of implausible twists. Bonnie Wheeler, 34, a suburban Boston high-school teacher with ``cheerleader good looks,'
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Joy Fielding, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (352p) ISBN 978-0-688-08868-2
Although this latest vehicle by the author of See Jane Run ultimately reaches an ingeniously crafted finale, readers may tire of Fielding's (mostly irrelevant) plot detours and excessive emotional baggage--specifically, the protagonist's constant...
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Joy Fielding, Author William Morrow & Company $27.78 (364p) ISBN 978-0-688-08867-5
Finely tuned and convincing, Fielding's ( Kiss Mommy Goodbye ) latest novel of romantic suspense opens on a chilling note: Boston housewife Jane Whittaker finds herself on a downtown street, her pockets stuffed with a large number of crisp $100...
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Joy Fielding, Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-385-19847-9
Fielding (Kiss Mommy Goodbye explores the seemingly inexorable disintegration of a middle-aged Long Island woman's life in this chilling, suspenseful tale. Subservient, self-deprecating Joanne Hunter suddenly becomes inundated by traumas. First, her
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Joy Fielding, Author Atria Books $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7434-0705-2
Terminal illness becomes a catalyst for change in this generally affecting if sometimes maudlin drama by the bestselling author of Missing Pieces and See Jane Run. At 36, art dealer Mattie Hart seems to be enjoying a perfect life. Her husband, Jake,
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Joy Fielding, Author . Pocket $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7434-0707-6
Bestselling author Fielding (The First Time) takes a trip down memory lane in this romantic drama with a thriller twist at the end. Four women friends meet as young mothers living on Grand Avenue in an upscale Cincinnati suburb and, over the course...
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Joy Fielding, Author Avon Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-71153-6
A suburban wife and mother receives a warning that her life is in danger, then finds that the woman who warned her has herself been murdered in this novel of psychological suspense. (Mar.)
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Joy Fielding, Author Avon Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-72122-1
The author of See Jane Run depicts a 30-year-old female prosecutor obsessed with her mother's disappearance eight years earlier in this thriller. (Mar.)
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Joy Fielding, Author . Atria $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8529-9
The Wild Zone, a South Beach (Miami Beach, Fla.) bar filled with lusty men—specifically, charismatic personal trainer Jeff Rydell; his cute visiting half-brother, Will, a Princeton graduate student; and Jeff’s married best friend, Tom...
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Joy Fielding, Author . Atria $24.95 (437p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9601-4
Jill Rohmer, a convicted child killer with a borderline personality disorder, lures Charlotte “Charley” Webb, a popular columnist for the Palm Beach Post and single mom, into a web of danger and deceit in this spine-tingler from...
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Joy Fielding, Author . Atria $24.95 (387p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9598-7
Bestseller Fielding (Mad River Road ) delivers another dependably entertaining thriller. When Sandy Crosbie and her physician husband, Ian, move to Torrance, Fla. (pop. 4,160), from Rochester, N.Y., to make a new start, Sandy quickly discovers that...
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Joy Fielding, Author . Atria $25 (370p) ISBN 978-0-7434-8802-0
In the nail-biting 18th suspense novel from Fielding (Puppet ), a trio of women trapped in a web of lies, danger and self-revelation must confront their deepest fears. Lily and Emma, each a young mother with an adorable young son, are carving out...
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Joy Fielding, Author . Atria $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7434-4629-7
Motherly love fuels this latest romantic suspense novel by Fielding (Whispers and Lies; Grand Avenue; etc.), set in Toronto during the city's international film festival. When Julia—beautiful 21-year-old actress, imperious bitch-goddess&#x
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Joy Fielding, Author . S&S/Atria $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-4625-9
An ending worthy of Hitchcock rewards readers able to weather the false clues and emotional angst of Fielding's latest page-turner. Once again, the bestselling author (Grand Avenue; The First Time; Missing Pieces; etc.) tests the complex ties...
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Joy Fielding, read by Jeffrey Cummings, Brilliance Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 10.5 hours, $36.99 ISBN 978-1-4233-6268-5
When Jeff, Will, and Tom make a wager to see who can bed an attractive woman first, it (inevitably) blows up in their faces and sends them all down paths of destruction from which no one will walk away unscathed. Unfortunately, neither the prose nor
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Joy Fielding. Ballantine, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-18155-9
In this near-miss of a thriller from bestseller Fielding (The Bad Daughter), 33-year-old Bostonian Paige Hamilton needs a shot of validation. Recently fired from her advertising job due to a merger, and betrayed by a cheating boyfriend with her look-
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Joy Fielding. Ballantine, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-9848-2025-9
This gripping psychological thriller from Fielding (All the Wrong Places) focuses on the occupants of five identical two-story homes on a cul-de-sac in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., in the two months leading up to a Fourth of July weekend when simmering
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Joy Fielding. Ballantine, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-15892-0
Toronto real estate broker Jodi Bishop, the narrator of this engrossing psychological thriller from bestseller Fielding (Cul-De-Sac), has a lot to worry about. Jodi’s husband, a onetime literary sensation whose second novel has been stalled for...
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