Julia Heaberlin

"A seasoned cop's interest in a mysterious one-eyed girl takes her back to the worst night of her life in this fast-paced thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans. They call her Angel. Found on the side of a remote highway, half-dead and blowing wishes in a field of dandelions, the young girl refuses to speak. No one knows who she is or where she came from--only that she fell from the sky. It's Wyatt who finds her and takes her home to nurse her back to health, setting into motion the town's rumor mill. A pariah, Wyatt still believes he can still communicate with his long-gone sister, and he might be the only one left who knows the truth about the night of her disappearance. The night that Wyatt's cousin, Odette Tucker, also lost something important: her leg. Now a cop, uninhibited by her prosthetic, Odette must reenter Wyatt's ghost-ridden world. In Angel's case and her beautiful green eye, she sees her once-broken self and all the things she was told she'd never do. As she begins to coax Angel into speaking and slowly pieces together her identity, Odette is ignited to reopen the cold case that has haunted her. Soon she is ensnared in a lethal game of cat and mouse with someone who doesn't want that night revisited. The night that inspired her to become a cop, the night her friend disappeared and they both exploded into a small Texas town's dark, violent mythology"--

A Novel

We Are All the Same in the Dark

For fans of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn comes an electrifying novel of stunning psychological suspense. A girl's memory lost in a field of wildflowers. A killer still spreading seeds. At seventeen, Tessa became famous for being the only surviving victim of a vicious serial killer. Her testimony put him on death row. Decades later, a mother herself, she receives a message from a monster who should be in prison. Now, as the execution date rapidly approaches, Tessa is forced to confront a chilling possibility: Did she help convict the wrong man?

A Novel of Suspense

Black-eyed Susans

A Texas map marked with three red dots like drops of blood. A serial killer who claims to have dementia. A mysterious young woman who wants answers. What could go wrong? "Fast and furious . . . You'll never see what's coming."--The Washington Post Years ago, her sister Rachel vanished. Now she is almost certain the man who took Rachel sits in the passenger seat beside her. He claims to have dementia and no memory of murdering girls across Texas in a string of places where he shot eerie pictures. To find the truth, she proposes a dangerous idea: a ten-day road trip with a possible serial killer to examine cold cases linked to his haunting photographs. Is he a liar or a broken old man? Is he a pathological con artist--or is she? You won't see the final, terrifying twist spinning your way until the very last mile. Praise for Paper Ghosts "A rich, hybrid work . . . a murder mystery, a road novel, a pair of psychological case studies and a meditation on photography."--The Sunday Times (U.K.), Thriller of the Month "[An] artful and elegiac psychological thriller . . . riveting."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[Paper Ghosts] elevates the often tawdry genre of the serial killer novel to a work of art."--Sunday Express (UK) "Texas has yet again bred a major American noir writer."--D Magazine "[Heaberlin has] developed a distinctive literary voice, one that is on full display in Paper Ghosts."--Houston Chronicle "Entertainingly unnerving."--The Dallas Morning News "Strong characterisation, haunting images, a wonderful sense of place, and some dark comedy make this travelogue-cum-psychological thriller well worth the read."--The Guardian

Paper Ghosts

After she gets a letter from a woman claiming to be her mother and that she was kidnapped 31 years earlier, Tommie McCloud must sort our a past of secrets, find out whether she really did have a violent mobster as a father and protect herself from the danger she was whisked away from three decades earlier. A first novel. Original.

Playing Dead

Night Will Find You

"An elderly man with dementia, once acquitted of a terrible murder and suspected in many others, is removed from his assisted-living facility by a woman he does not recognize--a woman who claims to be his long-lost daughter. She takes him on a road trip across Texas, searching for answers to her own burning questions. Following the paths of vanished women, she attemps to discover the truth about this man. Does he really have dementia? Is he a murderer? What secrets lurk in the dark corners of his disintegrating mind?"--

a novel of suspense

Paper ghosts

Moving from New York City to Clairmont, Texas, pregnant Emily Page is swept into a world of privilege and shifting loyalties and has secrets from her past render her vulnerable to enemies who test the bonds of her new friendships.

Lie Still

En intens og dybt original psykologisk domestic noir-thriller om en ung kvinde, der kæmper for sig selv og for sit barn, mens hun genoplever de hårrejsende erindringer, der ligger gemt under et blomsterhav på en mark.

Kvinden i graven

The Letter: A few weeks after her father's death, Tommie McCloud receives a letter in the post from a stranger. The woman claims that Tommie is her biological daughter, kidnapped from her as a baby over thirty years ago. The Lies: Tommie is approached by journalist Jack Smith, who claims to know about her past. But is he really who he says he is? The Truth: Not sure who to trust or what to believe, Tommie sets out to discover the truth about her identity and in doing so uncovers explosive secrets that threaten not only her life, but also the lives of those she holds dear.

Mädchentod

«Una trama incredibile che trae in inganno il lettore proprio quando pensa di averla compresa.» The Guardian Un grande thriller Tessa Cartwright, sedici anni, viene ritrovata in un campo del Texas, sepolta da un mucchio di ossa, priva di memoria. La ragazza è sopravvissuta per miracolo a uno spietato serial killer che ha ucciso tutte le altre sue giovani vittime per poi lasciarle in una fossa comune su cui crescono delle margherite gialle. Grazie alla testimonianza di Tessa, però, il presunto colpevole finisce nel braccio della morte. A quasi vent’anni di distanza da quella terrificante esperienza, Tessa è diventata un’artista e una mamma single. Una fredda mattina di febbraio nota nel suo giardino, proprio davanti alla finestra della camera da letto, una margherita gialla, che sembra piantata di recente. Sconvolta da ciò che evoca quel fiore, Tessa si chiede come sia possibile che il suo torturatore, ancora in carcere in attesa di essere giustiziato, possa averle lasciato un indizio così esplicito. E se avesse fatto condannare un innocente? L’unico modo per scoprirlo è scavare nei suoi dolorosi ricordi e arrivare finalmente a mettere a fuoco le uniche immagini, nascoste per tanti anni nelle pieghe della memoria, che potranno riportare a galla la verità... Un thriller magistrale Tradotto in 16 lingue Uno dei romanzi più venduti dell’anno negli Stati Uniti Da questo libro presto un grande film «Un thriller magistrale, brillantemente concepito e scritto. Il lavoro della Heaberlin è eccezionale e ricorda L’amore bugiardo della Flynn. Da non perdere.» The Washington Post «Un thriller spettacolare, avvalorato dalla qualità della scrittura e da una tensione mozzafiato.» The Times «Una trama incredibile che trae in inganno il lettore proprio quando pensa di averla compresa.» The Guardian Julia HeaberlinNata in Texas, è una giornalista pluripremiata, che ha lavorato per varie testate locali («Fort-Worth Star Telegram», «The Detroit News» e «The Dallas Morning News»). Con Gli occhi neri di Susan è arrivata in vetta alle classifiche degli Stati Uniti e presto dal suo romanzo sarà tratto un grande film. Vive a Dallas.

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Black Eyed Susans / druk 1

In the tradition of Lisa Unger’s Beautiful Lies and Nancy Pickard’s The Scent of Rain and Lightning comes a twisting, riveting novel of shifting trust and shattered lives. Lie Still delves deep into the heart of an opulent Southern town, where gossip is currency and secrets kill. When Emily Page and her husband move from Manhattan to the wealthy enclave of Clairmont, Texas, she hopes she can finally escape her haunted past—and outrun the nameless stalker who has been taunting her for years. Pregnant with her first child, Emily just wants to start over. But as she is drawn into a nest of secretive Texas women—and into the unnerving company of their queen, Caroline Warwick—Emily finds that acceptance is a very dangerous game. It isn’t long before Caroline mysteriously disappears and Emily is facing a rash of anonymous threats. Are they linked to the missing Caroline? Or to Emily’s terrifying encounter in college, years earlier? As the dark truth about Caroline emerges, Emily realizes that some secrets are impossible to hide—and that whoever came for Caroline is now coming for her. Praise for Lie Still “In this engrossing novel of suspense . . . [Heaberlin] expertly spins out a tale of lies and deceit that will keep the reader guessing.”—Publishers Weekly “Heaberlin’s depiction of one tight-knit Texas community is both culturally savvy and politically astute. . . . A carefully wrapped package of Texas soap opera, social and political exposé, and well-paced thriller.”—Booklist “Heaberlin combines a culturally pertinent suspense story (the plot revolves around the main character’s struggles with the repercussions of an unreported date rape) with satirical observations about Texas’ moneyed suburban elite.”—The New York Times “Lie Still mixes serious discussion about ‘the last frontier in crime’ with a twisty-turny mystery plot and a cast of eccentric characters.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Reading a book by Julia Heaberlin is like hearing your best friend tell you a particularly thorny story, filled with secrets and intrigue and human hopes and failures. Lie Still is a book you want to curl up with for a good long while but, more important, Julia Heaberlin is an author you want to get to know.”—Jenny Milchman “Julia Heaberlin weaves an intricate tapestry of secrets and suspense, lies and betrayals that kept me reading late into the night. Lie Still is a thriller par excellence and a page-turner, true—but it’s also a moving story of one woman’s unlikely path toward healing, and another’s lifelong search for redemption. I challenge you to visit Claremont, Texas—where nothing is quite as it seems and no one is quite who they claim—and leave unchanged.”—Emily Colin “Julia Heaberlin deceives the reader in the most deliciously chilling way in Lie Still: With gorgeous prose and sterling character work, she takes us on a deeply felt and wonderfully composed thrill ride. Layer after layer of secrets, longing, and deception is peeled away and we begin to dread the twisted kernel at the heart, never guessing what Heaberlin has in store for us.”—Sophie Littlefield, bestselling author of Garden of Stones

“A compelling family mystery that kept me turning the pages. Highly recommended.”—Margaret Maron, New York Times bestselling author of Three Day Town “Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?” The letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father’s death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter—and that she was kidnapped as a baby thirty-one years ago. Tommie wants to believe it’s all a hoax, but suddenly a girl who grew up on a Texas ranch finds herself linked to a horrific past: the slaughter of a family in Chicago, the murder of an Oklahoma beauty queen, and the kidnapping of a little girl named Adriana. Tommie races along a twisting, nightmarish path while an unseen stalker is determined to keep old secrets locked inside the dementia-battered brain of the woman who Tommie always thought was her real mother. With everything she has ever believed in question, and no one she can trust, Tommie must discover the truth about the girl who vanished—and the very real threats that still remain. “[Julia Heaberlin’s] voice is pitch perfect, and her story of one woman’s fierce struggle to reconcile her past with her present is gripping and powerful. An outstanding debut.”—Carla Buckley, author of Invisible

Beste Tommie, Heb je je ooit afgevraagd wie je bent? Ik zoek mijn dochter, die op 15 juli 1981 is ontvoerd, ze was toen nog maar één jaar oud. Ze heet Adriana Marchetti. Ik ben het grootste gedeelte van mijn leven naar jou op zoek geweest. Volgens mij ben jij mijn dochter. Na de dood van haar vader ontvangt kinderpsychologe Tommie McCloud een merkwaardige brief. Een onbekende vrouw beweert dat Tommie als baby gekidnapt is en dat zij haar biologische moeder is. Wanneer Tommie de identiteit ontdekt van haar vermeende biologische vader, een beruchte maffioso die op vrije voeten dreigt te komen, raakt ze verwikkeld in een gevaarlijk spel. Terwijl ze samen met haar zus probeert het familiebedrijf te runnen, zet Tommie alles op alles om de waarheid over haar ouders en zichzelf te achterhalen. Julia Heaberlin heeft diverse journalistieke prijzen op haar naam staan. Voordat ze als auteur debuteerde met Playing Dead werkte ze onder meer als redacteur van misdaadreportages voor een aantal grote kranten. Ze woont met haar echtgenoot en hun zoon in Dallas, waar ze als freelance auteur inmiddels aan haar tweede boek bezig is.

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"It's been a decade since the town's sweetheart Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Since her disappearance, Tru's brother, Wyatt, has lived as an outcast, desperate to know what happened to his sister. So when Wyatt finds a lost girl, he believes she is a sign. But for new cop, Odette Tucker, this girl's appearance reopens old wounds. Determined to solve both cases, Odette fights to save a lost girl in the present and in doing so digs up a shocking truth about that fateful night in the past . . ."--Provided by publisher.

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