Erin Flanagan

In this unforgettable psychological thriller, the dark is a terrifying mystery for a woman on the edge. Seven hard-won months into her sobriety, sociology professor Maris Heilman has her first blackout. She chalks it up to exhaustion, though she fears that her husband and daughter will suspect she's drinking again. Whatever their cause, the glitches start becoming more frequent. Sometimes minutes, sometimes longer, but always leaving Maris with the same disorienting question: Where have I been? Then another blackout lands Maris in the ER, where she makes an alarming discovery. A network of women is battling the same inexplicable malady. Is it a bizarre coincidence or something more sinister? What do all the women have in common besides missing time? Or is it who they have in common? In a desperate search for answers, Maris has no idea what's coming next--just the escalating paranoia that her memories may be beyond her control, and that everything she knows could disappear in the blink of an eye.

A Thriller

Blackout

A teenage girl goes missing. When Hal, an intellectually disabled farmhand, returns from a hunting trip with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight, Alma Costagan and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of.

Deer Season

Two women. An old friendship rekindled. A growing fear. Not everything is as it seems in a dark and twisty novel of suspense by the Edgar Award-winning author of Deer Season. Gwen Maner is a widowed single mom, returning to her Ohio hometown with her daughter. And thanks to former acquaintance Nicola Kimmel, this is the start of Gwen's new and promising life. Nicola's secured Gwen a lucrative job, rented Gwen a house on her same street, and won the heart of Gwen's daughter, but she almost seems too good to be true. She's so selfless. So charismatic. And so take-charge. Gwen is sure Nicola is yearning only for someone to get close to. After all, according to Nicola, her marriage is falling apart, and her best friend just up and left one day. But how well does Gwen really know Nicola? What does Nicola ultimately want? As their lives become more entwined, and Nicola's grip tightens, Gwen begins to think that Nicola isn't helping Gwen and her daughter but vying for control of every aspect of her life. And the consequences may be deadly.

Come with Me

Gunthrum, Nebraska, 1985. Es ist das erste Wochenende der Jagdsaison, und der geistig beeinträchtigte Hal, Landarbeiter auf der Farm von Alma und Clyle und gewissermaßen ihr Adoptivsohn, geht mit Freunden jagen. Am selben Wochenende verschwindet ein junges Mädchen aus dem Ort spurlos. Als Hal von seinem Ausflug zurückkehrt, sind Blut im Truck und eine Delle am Kühlergrill, und Hals Erklärungen lassen zu wünschen übrig. Schon bald beginnt man in Gunthrum zu spekulieren. Und nach und nach wird für Alma und Clyle die Frage, wozu Hal fähig sein könnte, immer dringlicher – denn wer sonst sollte an diesem Verbrechen schuld sein?

Dunkelzeit

“It’s not going to kill you,” a mother tells her protesting child. And maybe it won’t, but that doesn’t mean anyone is getting off scot-free. A no-man's-land between exoneration and repercussion, this is the place where the people in Erin Flanagan’s stories live: in events as big as 9/11 and as small as an infatuation with a dog groomer, as meaningful as the birth of a baby and as senseless as a car crash, as unique as a 1980s air band living out dreams for a city in decline and as common as an afterschool job that sucks. These stories accept that we all make mistakes, but it’s what we do in the aftermath that defines us. Sharp-witted and tenderhearted, these are stories in which readers will find people they recognize but never really knew until now.

It's Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories

These characters may be the usual suspects, making the usual mistakes, but their stories are not the usual fare. Populated by pretenders, ex-cons, and wannabes who bend the rules, break the law, and risk everything to salvage their own hearts, the twelve stories in The Usual Mistakes conduct readers into a world where betrayal is just a beginning. Deception, infidelity, even death-where a person goes from there is the mainspring of Erin Flanagan's fiction, and in the turns her characters take, we find rare insights: that we are often wedded to one another because of, not in spite o.

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