Jane Shemilt

A shocking and twisty novel of psychological suspense about a boundary-breaking love affair between a doctor and her patient, by Jane Shemilt, Edgar-nominated, #1 international bestselling author of The Daughter. What price would you pay for falling in love? Rachel is a respected doctor who lives in a picturesque and affluent English village where her husband Nathan teaches at an elite private school. Competent, unflappable, and nearing 50, Rachel has everything in her life firmly in her control, even if some of its early luster has worn off. But one day a new patient arrives at her practice for emergency treatment. Luc is a French painter married to a wealthy American woman who's just bought and restored a historic home on the edge of Rachel's posh neighborhood. The couple has only recently arrived, but Luc is struggling with a mental disorder, and so he goes to the nearest clinic...to Rachel. Their attraction is instant, and as Rachel's sense of ethics wars with newly awakened passion, the affair blinds her to everything else happening around her. A longtime patient appears to be following her every movement, turning up unexpectedly wherever she goes. Her somewhat estranged adult daughter Lizzie is hiding a secret--or at least, hiding it from Rachel. Nathan has grown sour and cold as well--or is that merely Rachel's guilty conscience weighing on her? But when one of her colleagues winds up murdered and Luc is arrested for the crime, everything Rachel didn't know about her life explodes into the open--along with her affair with her patient--a disgrace and scandal that will have consequences no one could have predicted.

The Patient

'I don't know why. I still don't know why we had to check. Did we really think you would be there, curled up and sleeping on the stage? That we could wake you and that you would smile and stretch, sleepy and stiff, with some explanation about taking too long to change? That we would put our arms round you, and take you home?' Naomi has vanished, leaving her family broken and her mother Jenny desperately searching for answers. But the traces fifteen year-old Naomi's left behind reveal a very different girl to the one Jenny thought she'd raised. And the more she looks the more she learns that everyone she trusted has been keeping secrets. Who is the real Naomi? And will discovering the truth help to find her?

Daughter

Big Little Lies meets Lord of The Flies in this electrifyingly twisty follow-up to Jane Shemilt’s breakout debut The Daughter. Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout. There’s Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband and is obsessed with her Instagrammable recipes and lifestyle. And Melissa, a successful interior designer whose casually cruel banker husband is careful not to leave visible bruises; she curates her perfectly thin body so closely she misses everything their teenage daughter is hiding. Then there’s Grace, a young Zimbabwean immigrant, who lives in high-rise housing project with her two children and their English father Martin, an award-winning but chronically broke novelist; she does far more for her family than she should have to. As the weeks go by, the couples become very close; there are barbecues, garden parties, a holiday at a country villa in Greece. Resentments flare. An affair begins. Unnoticed, the children run wild. The couples are busily watching each other, so distracted and self-absorbed that they forget to watch their children. No one sees the five children at their secret games or realize how much their family dynamics are changing until tragedy strikes. The story twists and then twists again while the three families desperately search for answers. It’s only as they begin to unravel the truth of what happened over the summer that they realize evil has crept quietly into their world. But has this knowledge come too late?

A Novel

The Playground

Their children are friends first. They hit it off immediately, as kids do. And so the parents are forced to get to know each other. Three wildly different couples. Three marriages, floundering. There are barbecues, dinner parties, a holiday in Greece. An affair begins, resentments flare, and despite it all the three women become closer. Unnoticed their children run wild. The couples are so busy watching each other that they forget to watch their children. Until tragedy strikes. But the summer wont be over until our story twists, and twists again, while three families search desperately for answers. Because while they have been looking the other way, evil has crept into their safe little world and every parent's biggest nightmare is about to come true . . . Big Little Lies meets Little Fires Everywhere in this tense domestic thriller from the bestselling author of Richard and Judy sensation Daughter.

Little Friends

Una famiglia quasi perfetta

Un delitto quasi perfetto

How Far We Fall

As horas passam mas Naomi não aparece. A noite avança e Jenny desespera. A filha adolescente já devia ter voltado da escola, onde participou numa peça de teatro. A vida de Jenny, uma médica casada com um neurocirurgião de sucesso, está prestes a mudar. Um ano depois da noite fatídica, Naomi continua desaparecida. A polícia procurou em vão e os piores cenários (rapto ou homicídio) parecem hipóteses remotas. A busca obsessiva de Jenny, que não desiste da filha, sugere outra explicação: as pessoas em quem confiava e que julgava conhecer têm escondido segredos – sobretudo a própria Naomi. A Filha Desaparecida é um bestseller internacional.

A Filha Desaparecida

Jenny Malcolm er fornøyd med tingenes tilstand. Hun har et travelt liv, konstant på farten mellom en krevende karriere, tre barn og den arbeidsnarkomane mannen Ted. Likevel synes hun det meste går etter planen. Så forsvinner hennes 15 år gamle datter Naomi, og verden raser sammen. Jenny innser snart at det finnes mye under den tilsynelatende plettfrie overflaten som er helt annerledes enn hun trodde. Etter ett år er Naomi fortsatt borte, og hele familien er på sammenbruddets rand. Men vil sannheten om Naomis forsvinning kunne samle dem igjen, eller vil den tvert imot rive familien fra hverandre for godt? Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.

Datteren

David Dyer's astonishing novel The Midnight Watchis based on the true story of the SS Californian, the ship that sawtheTitanic'sdistress rockets and yet, unfathomably, did nothing. A psychological thriller. Sometimes the smallest of human failings can lead to the greatest of disasters On a wretchedly cold night in the North Atlantic, a steamer stopped in an icefield sees the glow of another ship on the horizon. Just after midnight the first of eight distress rockets is fired. Why did theCalifornian look on while theTitanicsank? As soon as Boston Americanreporter John Steadman lays eyes on the man who stood the midnight watch on the Californian, he knows there's another story lurking behind the official one. Herbert Stone must have seen something, and yet his ship did nothing while the calamity took place. Now Stone, under his captain's orders, must carry his secret in silence, while Steadman is determined to find it out. So begins a strange dance around the truth by these three men. Haunted by the fifteen hundred who went to their deaths in those icy waters, and by the loss of his own baby son years earlier, Steadman must either find redemption in the Titanic's tragedy or lose himself. Based on true events, The Midnight Watchis at once a heart-stopping mystery and a deeply knowing novel - about the frailty of men, the strength of women, the capriciousness of fate and the price of loyalty.

The Drowning Lesson

Jenny houdt van haar werk, haar man, haar tweeling Theo en Ed en haar vijftienjarige dochter Naomi. Ze vormen een hecht gezin, niets is onbespreekbaar. Dan krijgt Naomi de hoofdrol in een toneelstuk op school. Het gezin leeft mee naar de grote dag van de premiÞre. Als de roes van de prachtige avond is uitgewerkt, slaat de harde werkelijkheid toe. Naomi is niet thuisgekomen. In de zoektocht naar Naomi stuit Jenny op schokkende feiten. De dochter die ze dacht zo goed te kennen, hield een groot geheim voor haar verborgen. æHet is de nachtmerrie van elke moeder: de vermissing van een kind. Maar in De dochter wordt een ogenschijnlijke ontvoering een veel complexere situatie, vol leugens en onwaarheden. Jane Shemilt bouwt de spanning laagje voor laagje op. Een thriller waarin je moet blijven lezen.Æ tess gerritsen Jane Shemilt is arts en psycholoog, en ze heeft een master in Creative Writing. De dochter is haar debuut, waarvoor ze al voor publicatie werd genomineerd door de Janklow and Nesbitt Award en de Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize.

De dochter

Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail has gone cold. Yet, for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun.

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Дочь

From the author of bestselling phenomenon Daughter comes a thrilling exploration of a marriage consumed by ambition and revenge . . . The perfect couple Meeting Albie gave Beth a fresh start - a chance to leave her past behind. Now she has her new husband; an ambitious, talented young neurosurgeon. The perfect marriage Their marriage gives Beth the safe haven she's always wanted - with just one catch. Albie has no idea of the secrets she's keeping. He doesn't know that years ago, Beth had an affair with Ted, the boss helping Albie's star ascend. Nor that the affair's devastating ending will have consequences for their own future. The perfect storm So when Ted's generous patronage begins to sour, Beth senses everything she's built could crumble. And she sees an opportunity. To satisfy Albie's ambitions, and her own obsessive desire for revenge . . . She'll keep her marriage and her secret safe. But how far will the fall take them? 'Instantly intriguing, chilling' Daily Mail 'A modern Macbeth, with a compelling sense of place, good twists, and a tense, intense ending' Sarah Vaughan, bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal 'Breathtaking' Woman & Home

A shocking and twisty novel of psychological suspense about a boundary-breaking love affair between a doctor and her patient, by Jane Shemilt, Edgar-nominated, #1 international bestselling author of The Daughter. What price would you pay for falling in love? Rachel is a respected doctor who lives in a picturesque and affluent English village where her husband Nathan teaches at an elite private school. Competent, unflappable, and nearing 50, Rachel has everything in her life firmly in her control, even if some of its early luster has worn off. But one day a new patient arrives at her practice for emergency treatment. Luc is a French painter married to a wealthy American woman who’s just bought and restored a historic home on the edge of Rachel’s posh neighborhood. The couple has only recently arrived, but Luc is struggling with a mental disorder, and so he goes to the nearest clinic…to Rachel. Their attraction is instant, and as Rachel’s sense of ethics wars with newly awakened passion, the affair blinds her to everything else happening around her. A longtime patient appears to be following her every movement, turning up unexpectedly wherever she goes. Her somewhat estranged adult daughter Lizzie is hiding a secret—or at least, hiding it from Rachel. Nathan has grown sour and cold as well—or is that merely Rachel’s guilty conscience weighing on her? But when one of her colleagues winds up murdered and Luc is arrested for the crime, everything Rachel didn’t know about her life explodes into the open—along with her affair with her patient—a disgrace and scandal that will have consequences no one could have predicted.

In the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Ruth Rendell, this compelling and clever psychological thriller spins the harrowing tale of a mother’s obsessive search for her missing daughter. Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come home after her school play, Jenny’s seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios—kidnapping, murder—seem less plausible. The trail has gone cold. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. More than a year after her daughter’s disappearance, she’s still digging for answers—and what she finds disturbs her. Everyone she’s trusted, everyone she thought she knew, has been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the girl she thought she’d raised.

The Daughter

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON DAUGHTER A wife who must keep her affair secret. A husband who has the power to bring her lover down. A marriage that could end in murder. Beth was still reeling from the end of her affair the night she met Albie - a man who knows her ex better than anyone, but has no idea of their history. He's perfectly placed to give Beth the revenge she craves - if only she can keep her secret safe. But how far is she willing to go? 'Instantly intriguing, chilling' Daily Mail 'A breathtaking dissection of a marriage' Woman & Home 'A brilliant exploration of power and responsibility, jealousy and vengeance, set against the fascinating backdrop of the world of neurosurgery' Daily Express 'A modern Macbeth, with a compelling sense of place, good twists, and a tense, intense ending' Sarah Vaughan, bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal

The perfect marriage. The perfect murder?

BEST—SELLER INTERNACIONAL"Viciante até a última página!" — My Weekly"Tenso e instigante." — Sunday Mirror"Viciante. Um suspense instigante que mantém a tensão até o fim devastador." — Main On Sunday"Se na superfície este é um suspense sobre o desaparecimento de uma adolescente, a estreia de Jane Shemilt vai mais a fundo e explora o sentimento de culpa que assombra as mães que trabalham fora, algo bastante familiar para muitas de nós." — Woman & Home"Complexo e impressionante. Jane Shemilt constrói a tensão camada por camada. Você não vai conseguir parar de ler." — Tess Gerritsen, autora best-sellerA NOITE DO DESAPARECIMENTO Ela me contava tudo. A polícia, a foto dela. Isso vai ajudar. Mas a foto não mostra como seu cabelo brilha como ouro sob o sol. Ela tem uma pintinha bem embaixo da sobrancelha esquerda. Ela tem um leve perfume de limão. Ela rói as unhas. Ela nunca chora. Ela ama o outono, eu quis contar aos policiais. Ela coleciona as folhas que caem, como uma criança. Ela é só uma criança. POR FAVOR, ENCONTREM MINHA FILHA.UM ANO DEPOIS Naomi permanece desaparecida. Jenny, sua mãe, está obcecada. A família se despedaçou. Será que descobrir a verdade sobre Naomi é a única forma de salvar essa família? Ou a verdade vai destruí-la de vez?Jennifer Malcolm tem uma vida perfeita. Ela e o marido são médicos bem-sucedidos, com carreiras estelares, um casamento amoroso, uma bela casa num bairro de classe média e três filhos. Quando a filha mais nova, Naomi, com apenas 15 anos, não volta para casa após a apresentação de uma peça escolar, Jenny se desespera. Horas e dias se passam sem notícias da caçula. A polícia é envolvida. Todos temem pelo pior.Com o passar dos meses, a fachada de perfeição da família começa a desmoronar. Perguntas indesejadas levantam dúvidas que Jenny gostaria que nunca tivessem surgido, segredos que deveriam ter permanecido no esquecimento.

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A filha

A Paperback Original A shocking and twisty novel of psychological suspense about a boundary-breaking love affair between a doctor and her patient, by Jane Shemilt, Edgar-nominated, #1 international bestselling author of The Daughter. What price would you pay for falling in love? Rachel is a respected doctor who lives in a picturesque and affluent English village where her husband Nathan teaches at an elite private school. Competent, unflappable, and nearing 50, Rachel has everything in her life firmly in her control, even if some of its early luster has worn off. But one day a new patient arrives at her practice for emergency treatment. Luc is a French painter married to a wealthy American woman who's just bought and restored a historic home on the edge of Rachel's posh neighborhood. The couple has only recently arrived, but Luc is struggling with a mental disorder, and so he goes to the nearest clinic...to Rachel. Their attraction is instant, and as Rachel's sense of ethics wars with newly awakened passion, the affair blinds her to everything else happening around her. A longtime patient appears to be following her every movement, turning up unexpectedly wherever she goes. Her somewhat estranged adult daughter Lizzie is hiding a secret--or at least, hiding it from Rachel. Nathan has grown sour and cold as well--or is that merely Rachel's guilty conscience weighing on her? But when one of her colleagues winds up murdered and Luc is arrested for the crime, everything Rachel didn't know about her life explodes into the open--along with her affair with her patient--a disgrace and scandal that will have consequences no one could have predicted.

Hvor godt kender du egentlig din familie? Alle har hemmeligheder. Natten hvor hun forsvinder Hun plejede at fortælle mig alt. De har et billede. Det vil hjælpe. Men det viser ikke, hvordan hendes hår skinner. Hun dufter svagt af citroner. Hun bider negle. Hun græder aldrig. Hun elsker efteråret. Det ville jeg gerne fortælle dem. Hun samler blade som et barn. Hun er kun et barn. FIND HENDE. Et år senere 15-årige Naomi er stadig forsvundet. Jenny er en mor på randen af sammenbrud. Malcolm-familien er faldet fra hinanden. Er sandheden om Naomi, det eneste som kan bringe dem sammen igen? Eller er sandheden det, som endegyldigt vil flå dem fra hinanden?

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