Danièle Momont Livres

1947. Accompagnee d'un ami d'enfance secretement amoureux d'elle, Olivia Hamilton retourne en Australie, sa terre natale, ou sa mere Eva vient de mourir. Avant de disparaitre, cette derniere lui a transmis des documents qui ont ebranle ses certitudes concernant ses origines. Sur place, Olivia retrouve sa soeur ainee, qui cultive a son egard une franche hostilite. Les archives leguees par leur mere seraient-elles a l'origine d'une telle animosite ? Aidee par Maggie, la gerante de la pension ou elle loge, Olivia tentera de percer un a un les secrets qui nimbent son enfance. Avec cette saga, dans la lignee de ses grands succes, Tamara McKinley signe son roman le plus personnel, celui qui lui tient le plus a coeur.

When Lauren Stillwell discovers her husband leaving a hotel room with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But while she's sneaking around, her husband is hatching a plan of his own. After a torrid quickie with a co-worker, Lauren hears a struggle outside her window and looks out just in time to see her husband loading her lover's limp body into the trunk of a car. When the body shows up in a pool of shallow water, she races to the scene of the crime. But Lauren Stillwell is no regular wronged woman. She's a NYC cop—and she's just been assigned to this case. Unable to tell anyone what she saw and unwilling to turn her husband in, Lauren is paralyzed by a secret that will tear her life apart. But as she attempts to point fingers away from her husband, she uncovers something shocking: her husband didn't have an affair—what he did was far worse than she could have ever imagined. A gripping story of secrets and infidelities that begins where Adrian Lyne's movie Unfaithful leaves off, The Quickie will have readers' hearts pounding to the very last page.