Books by Patricia MacDonald and Complete Book Reviews

Patricia MacDonald, Author . Pocket $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7434-2355-7
Combining hand-wringing angst with wild improbabilities, Edgar-nominee MacDonald (The Unforgiven, etc.) plunges her heroine, Keely Bennett, into a nightmarish ride through domestic bliss gone bad. First husband Richard, who suffers from horrible...
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Patricia MacDonald, Author . Atria $19.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7434-2358-8
Some clever hiding of clues in plain sight distinguishes Edgar nominee MacDonald's (The Unforgiven) otherwise unremarkable contemporary thriller. Britt Andersen finds herself playing Nancy Drew after Greta, her estranged older sister, perishes...
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Patricia MacDonald, Author . Atria $24 (286p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6955-1
In MacDonald's sixth novel, a smotheringly melodramatic mix of romance and suspense, 26-year-old psychologist Emma Hollis embarks on a nightmarish journey that begins with small glitches that raise doubts on the day she marries freelance writer...
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Patricia MacDonald, Author . Atria $24.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6956-8
A child abduction with elements of the Elizabeth Smart case triggers this pallid romantic suspense novel from Edgar-finalist MacDonald (The Unforgiven ). When she was nine, Tess DeGraff witnessed the knifepoint kidnapping of her teenage sister,...
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Patricia MacDonald, Author . Severn $28.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6844-2
Mary Higgins Clark fans who aren’t too finicky about legal detail will welcome this domestic suspense novel from MacDonald (Stolen in the Night ). When Brooklyn grad student Morgan Adair, who’s agreed to be godmother to the infant son of
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Patricia MacDonald, Author Warner Books $29 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-51685-3
Thirteen-year-old Jenny Newhall is a normal adolescent: bright, big-hearted and snappish to her adoptive mother. Jenny's birth mother, teenager Linda Emery, hid her pregnancy and disappeared from her home in Massachusetts, leaving grieving relatives
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Patricia MacDonald, Author Warner Books $23.5 (295p) ISBN 978-0-446-51687-7
Mothers and children are the emotional fulcrum of thriller veteran MacDonald's well-plotted but shallow latest (after Secret Admirer). Six-month-old Justin Wallace and his teenage baby-sitter are abducted from a small-town park; the police find the...
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Patricia MacDonald, Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6958-6
MacDonald (From Cradle to Grave) offers a fresh, suspenseful spin on the vacation gone bad crime tale. Shelby Sloan, a well-to-do Philadelphia working woman, gives her daughter, Chloe Kenricks, and Chloe's husband, Rob, a Christmas treat—a Caribbean
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Patricia MacDonald. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8120-5
In this chilling tale of domestic suspense from Edgar-finalist MacDonald (Cast into Doubt), Caitlin Rogers, “the director for diversity recruitment at Brunswick University,” moves with her troubled 16-year-old brother, James, to their parents’ South
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Patricia MacDonald. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8247-9
On returning home to Chichester, Mass., Alex Woods learns a dark secret about her late mother in this well-plotted domestic thriller from Edgar-finalist MacDonald (Missing Child). As a teen, Alex’s mother had an out-of-wedlock daughter whom she put...
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Patricia MacDonald. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8405-3
Hannah Wickes, the heroine of this chilling psychological thriller from MacDonald (Sisters), works as a counselor at Restoration House, a treatment center for veterans in West Philadelphia. She and her husband, Adam, live as tenants in a nearby...
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Patricia MacDonald. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8587-6
Early in this unsettling novel of psychological suspense from MacDonald (I See You), New York City book editor Eden Radley learns online of a mother and son murder-suicide in Cleveland, Ohio. Eden’s father, Hugh Radley, confirms that the dead are...
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Patricia MacDonald. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8778-8
In the prologue of this carefully plotted novel of psychological suspense from MacDonald (Don’t Believe a Word), 13-year-old Blair Butler is playing with her best friend, 12-year-old Molly Sinclair, at the Yorktown, Pa., home of Blair’s uncle Ellis,
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Patricia MacDonald, Author, Patricia Bourgeau, Author Grand Central Publishing $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-446-51686-0
Mediocre writing almost sinks MacDonald's (Mother's Day and Little Sister) awkward hybrid of mystery and romance. Laura Reed is a renowned children's-book writer whose personal life is just as fulfilling as her professional one. She lives in a...
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Patricia MacDonald. Severn, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8848-8
Pastry chef Dena Russell, the protagonist of this overstuffed domestic thriller from MacDonald (The Girl in the Woods), has reason to regret moving in with stable owner Brian Riley, a former schoolmate, by whom she’s become pregnant despite...
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