Título: No Place Like Home: A Novel
Autor: Mary Higgins Clark
Sinopse: In a riveting and unputdownable thriller from the Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever—her childhood home.
At the age of ten, Liza Barton shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Cartwright, and the tabloids compared the child to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity of their names.
To erase her past, her adoptive parents change her name to Celia. At age twenty-eight, a successful interior designer in Manhattan, she marries a childless sixty-year-old widower, Laurence Foster, and they have a son. Before their marriage, she reveals to him her true identity. Two years later, on his deathbed, he makes her swear never to tell anyone so that their son, Jack, will not carry the stigma of her past.
Two years later, Celia is happily remarried. Her peace of mind is shattered when her new husband surprises her with a gift—the house where she killed her mother. And it soon becomes clear that there is someone in the community knows Celia.
More and more, there are signs that someone in the community knows Celia’s true identity. When the real estate agent who sold them the house is brutally murdered and Celia is the first on the crime scene, she becomes a suspect. As she fights to prove her innocence, she has no idea that she and her son, Jack, are now the targets of a killer.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “No Place Like Home: A Novel”, de Mary Higgins Clark, publicado pela editora Pocket Books, em 2008 e com 496 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Pocket Books
Páginas: 496
Ano: 2008-03-25
Edição: 1st ptg.
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1416579559
ISBN13: 9781416579557
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Pocket Books oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas que transitam entre o suspense, o thriller psicológico e a fantasia urbana, com frequentes incursões em histórias de amor e dramas pessoais. As sinopses sugerem um catálogo que valoriza personagens em conflitos intensos, seja contra ameaças externas ou dilemas internos, com ritmo geralmente ágil e tom que varia do sombrio ao emocionalmente carregado. Há obras que exploram desde investigações criminais e tramas de vingança até romances contemporâneos e fantasia sobrenatural, criando um contraste entre o realismo tenso e o imaginário fantástico.
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