Joy Fielding Livres

C'est un matin comme les autres. Mattie discute avec sa fille Kim, seize ans, avant que celle-ci ne parte à l'école, fait quelques longueurs dans sa piscine, planifie sa journée. Mais intérieurement, Mattie bouillonne. Encore une fois, elle a trouvé la preuve d'une infidélité de son mari Jake. Elle est décidée à le mettre à la porte lorsqu'une nouvelle bien plus dramatique vient bouleverser sa vie. Atteinte d'une maladie incurable, Mattie se voit confrontée à l'impensable. Jadis, elle et Jake s'étaient bien promis de s'aimer "... pour le meilleur et pour le pire, dans la maladie et l'adversité, jusqu'à ce que la mort nous sépare...". Mais dans cette épreuve terrible, Mattie pourra-t-elle compter sur son mari ?

Jess Koster, brillante avocate, s'est acquis une réelle célébrité dans les affaires criminelles. Mais cette fois, Rick Ferguson, qu'elle a réussi à faire poursuivre pour viol et meurtre, la menace ...

Echaudée par une mauvaise expérience avec sa précédente locataire, partie en pleine nuit avec plusieurs mois de loyers impayés, Terry hésite à louer de nouveau le cottage au fond de son jardin. Mais lorsque Alison, si gentille et si drôle, se présente à elle, ses réticences s'envolent en une seconde. Une profonde amitié commence à se nouer entre les deux femmes, mais peu à peu les doutes et les soupçons assaillent Terry. Alison est-elle vraiment la personne douce et innocente qu'elle prétend être, et sa présence auprès de Terry est-elle vraiment le fruit du hasard?

Psychothérapeute, Kate Sinclair résout les problèmes des autres tout en menant une vie de famille heureuse ... Mais quand sa demi-sœur lui annonce son intention d'épouser un homme jugé pour le meurtre de treize femmes, le bel édifice chancelle. En voulant protéger les siens Kate provoque la colère et la haine. Peu à peu le havre de paix familial est insidieusement envahi par les conflits, les désirs malsains, les rancœurs trop longtemps tues, les déchirements, la violence ... Au cœur de cette tempête : le meurtrier, son goût de la manipulation, son art de fasciner ses victimes, son amour du sang. Avec quelles armes Kate va-t-elle pouvoir combattre la bête qui s'est glissée dans sa maison, dans sa famille, dans son couple? [payot.ch]

'I think my real name is Samantha. I think I'm your daughter.' Caroline Shipley's heart nearly stops when she hears those words from the voice on the other end of the phone. Instantly, she's thrust 15 years into the past, to a posh resort in Baja, Mexico and the fateful night her world collapsed. The trip is supposed to be a celebration. Caroline's husband, Hunter, convinces her to leave their two young daughters, Michelle and Samantha, alone in their hotel suite while the couple enjoys an anniversary dinner in the restaurant downstairs. But returning afterward, Caroline and Hunter make a horrifying discovery: Two-year-old Samantha has vanished without a trace. What follows are days, weeks and years of anguish for Caroline. She's tormented by media attention that has branded her a cold, incompetent mother, while she struggles to save her marriage. Caroline also has to deal with the demands of her needy elder daughter, Michelle, who is driven to cope in dangerous ways. Through it all, Caroline desperately clings to the hope that Samantha will someday be found only to be stung again and again by cruel reality. Plunged back into the still-raw heartbreak of her daughter's disappearance, and the suspicions and inconsistencies surrounding a case long gone cold, Caroline doesn't know whom or what to believe. The only thing she can be sure of is that someone is fiercely determined to hide the truth of what happened to Samantha.

The story of an ambitious journalist whose foray into the mind of a killer puts her own family in jeopardy.

Amanda Travis is a high-powered, 28-year-old lawyer whose greatest likes are spinning classes at her Palm Beach gym and a compliant jury. As for the things she hates, they include nicknames, the color pink, clients who don't follow her advice... and memories. Unfortunately, running from her past becomes a lot harder when one of her ex-husbands calls from her hometown of Toronto with the alarming news that her mother has shot and killed a complete stranger. Now she must return to face her demons--a love that once consumed her and a mother who seems to hold a strange, dark power over everyone she encounters. But Amanda is no longer willing to acquiesce to her mother's fatal whims--no matter what the cost.

Ever since she was a child, Julia Carver has tested her mother Cindy's nerves and tried her patience. Forever willful and self-absorbed, Julia, now twenty-one and an aspiring actress, moves back home when her father remarries -- and turns Cindy's household into chaos. But when Julia doesn't return after a promising audition with a Hollywood film director, Cindy knows it's more than just typical Julia dramatics -- and a frantic search begins. Now, secrets are revealed, lives are forever altered, and Cindy is forced to acknowledge the disturbing truth about the daughter she realizes she never really knew.

New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding takes readers on a terror-charged hunt for a serial killer holding a small South Florida town in a vice-like grip of fear, suspicion, and violence. As Sheriff John Weber would attest, the deadliest predators in Torrance, Florida, were the alligators lurking in the nearby swamps. But that was before someone abducted and murdered a runaway teenage girl...and before the disappearance of popular and pretty Liana Martin. The pattern is chilling to Sandy Crosbie, the town's new high school English teacher. With a marriage on the rocks, thanks to her husband's online affairs, and a beautiful teenage daughter to protect, Sandy wishes she'd never come to the seemingly quiet town with shocking depths of scandal, sex, and brutality roiling beneath its surface. And as Sheriff Weber digs up more questions than answers in a dead-end investigation, one truth emerges: the prettiest ones are being targeted, the heartstoppers. And this killer intends to give them their due....

Torrance, Florida, is a small town where people leave their doors open and children play outside unsupervised, creating an ideal setting for a murderer targeting young girls.