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At an elite private school nestled in the Colorado mountains, a tangled web of lies draws together three vastly different women. Natalie, a young office assistant, dreams of having a life like the school moms she deals with every day. Women like Brooke-a gorgeous heiress, ferociously loving mother and serial cheater-and Asha, an overachieving and overprotective mom who suspects her husband of having an affair.
Their fates are bound by their relationships with the handsome, charming assistant athletic director Nicholas, who Natalie loves, Brooke wants and Asha needs. But when two bodies are carried out of the school early one morning, it seems the jealousy between mothers and daughters, rival lovers and the haves and have-nots has shattered the surface of this isolated, affluent town-a town where people will stop at nothing to get what they want.
Set in a world of vast ranches, chalet-style apartments and mountain mansions, The Lying Club is a juicy thriller of revenge, murder and a shocking conspiracy-one in which the victims aren't who you might think.
Three women. Two bodies. One big lie... 'Shocking and scandalous'
Cosmopolitan, Best Books of 2022 'Dark and compelling' Liv
Constantine 'An edgy, addictive read about the lengths people go to
in the name of love' Heather Gudenkauf 'Clever and brilliantly
written' Karen Hamilton At an elite private school nestled in the
Colorado mountains, a tangled web of lies draws together three
vastly different women. Natalie, a young office assistant, dreams
of having a life like the school moms she deals with every day.
Women like Brooke-a gorgeous heiress, ferociously loving mother and
serial cheater-and Asha, an overachieving and overprotective mom
who suspects her husband of having an affair. Their fates are bound
by their relationships with the handsome, charming assistant
athletic director Nicholas, who Natalie loves, Brooke wants and
Asha needs. But when two bodies are carried out of the school early
one morning, it seems the jealousy between mothers and daughters,
rival lovers and the haves and have-nots has shattered the surface
of this isolated, affluent town-a town where people will stop at
nothing to get what they want. Set in a world of vast ranches,
chalet-style apartments and mountain mansions, The Lying Club is a
juicy thriller of revenge, murder and a shocking conspiracy-one in
which the victims aren't who you might think.
'Ward writes with the same compelling energy as you get in a
blockbuster Netflix series' Daily Mail 'Compelling. Filled with
unexpected twists... a riveting read' Sarah Pekkanen, author of The
Wife Between Us Maddie and Ian's romance began when he was serving
in the British Army and she was a travel writer visiting her best
friend Jo in Europe. Now sixteen years later, married with a
beautiful son, Charlie, they are living the perfect suburban life
in Middle America. But when an accident leaves Maddie badly
scarred, she begins attending therapy, where she gradually reveals
her fears about Ian's PTSD; her concerns for the safety of their
young son Charlie; and the couple's tangled and tumultuous past
with Jo. From the Balkans to England, Iraq to Manhattan, and
finally to an ordinary family home in Kansas, the years of love and
fear, adventure and suspicion culminate in The Day of the Killing,
when a frantic 911 call summons the police to the scene of shocking
crime. But what in this beautiful home has gone so terribly bad?
Perfect for fans of The Woman in the Window and The Wife Between
Us.
Three women. Two bodies. One big lie... 'Shocking and scandalous'
Cosmopolitan, Best Books of 2022 'Dark and compelling' Liv
Constantine 'An edgy, addictive read about the lengths people go to
in the name of love' Heather Gudenkauf 'Clever and brilliantly
written' Karen Hamilton At an elite private school nestled in the
Colorado mountains, a tangled web of lies draws together three
vastly different women. Natalie, a young office assistant, dreams
of having a life like the school moms she deals with every day.
Women like Brooke-a gorgeous heiress, ferociously loving mother and
serial cheater-and Asha, an overachieving and overprotective mom
who suspects her husband of having an affair. Their fates are bound
by their relationships with the handsome, charming assistant
athletic director Nicholas, who Natalie loves, Brooke wants and
Asha needs. But when two bodies are carried out of the school early
one morning, it seems the jealousy between mothers and daughters,
rival lovers and the haves and have-nots has shattered the surface
of this isolated, affluent town-a town where people will stop at
nothing to get what they want. Set in a world of vast ranches,
chalet-style apartments and mountain mansions, The Lying Club is a
juicy thriller of revenge, murder and a shocking conspiracy-one in
which the victims aren't who you might think.
'Ward writes with the same compelling energy as you get in a
blockbuster Netflix series' Daily Mail It seemed like such a
beautiful marriage... Maddie and Ian's love story began with a
chance encounter at a party, while she was a travel writer visiting
her best friend, Jo. Now, almost two decades later, they are
married with a beautiful son, Charlie, and living the perfect
suburban life in middle America. But when a camping accident leaves
Maddie badly scarred, she begins attending writing therapy, where
she gradually reveals her fears about Ian, her concerns for the
safety of their young son and the couple's tangled and tumultuous
past with Jo. Following their story across the globe, sixteen years
of love and fear, adventure and suspicion culminate in a frantic
911 call summoning the police to the scene of a shocking crime...
'Compelling. Filled with unexpected twists... a riveting read'
Sarah Pekkanen, author of The Wife Between Us
In this, the 12th in the Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series,
Jackson's amateur sleuth goes to Maine in search of the answer to a
sixty year old mystery. Rachel is anticipating some rest and
relaxation in the lovely lakeside cottage where she will stay; and
she hopes to spend part of her time "experiencing Maine." Her
search hampers her hopes for a sabbatical and keeps her occupied;
what she finds is old deceit, old betrayal, and old murder that has
lain dormant for sixty years. Her own life is threatened when
someone she thinks is trustworthy tries to keep her from exposing
the shocking details
THE JANUS KILLERS is #4 in Annis Ward Jackson's Ellis Crawford
Series. The time is sunny April in the small town of Battenburg in
eastern North Carolina. But all is not dogwoods and azaleas and
tulips A young boy has been kidnapped, his stepfather has been
murdered, and the ransom money is missing. Chief Ellis Crawford,
along with his three man and one woman police force, must
investigate a crime where clues are nearly nonexistent. Blackmail
rears its ugly head and offers Crawford the answer to WHY but the
answer to WHO evades him until aid arrives from unexpected quarters
and helps him unravel the tangled web of one of the town's
wealthiest residents who has been leading a double life.
HIGH COUNTRY COVERUP is the seventh in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel
Myers Murder Mystery series. In the Appalachian Mountains of North
Carolina, Gurney Styles sits in the Sheppard County jail, convicted
and waiting to be sentenced for the stabbing death of a wealthy
retiree. Styles' Melungeon wife, Dulcie, convinces Rachel Myers
that her husband is innocent and Myers interrupts her August
vacation to search for what really happened. With the aid of
Detective Barnett, the reluctant detective delves deep into the
private life of the widow and her slain husband. Myers learns a new
lesson in just what a person is willing to risk to satisfy their
financial avarice, and how easily a corrupt public official can
manipulate the justice system.
Annis Ward Jackson sets this novel against a backdrop of beautiful
Watauga Lake in the mountains of eastern Tennessee. Violet Thurston
Oliver is a descendant of pioneers and has no intention of ever
vacating the land that has been in her family for nearly two
hundred years. However, Violet discovers that so-called progress
grinds on with little concern for personal attachments. Proud,
stoic, and self-sufficient, Violet withstands an abusive marriage
and forced relocation from her beloved farm in the late 1940's when
the Tennessee Valley Authority covered over six thousand acres with
a dam to provide electricity and recreational opportunities. The
lake has been Violet's sorrow and her salvation. Her fifty-year-old
secret may remain safe or it may rise from the depths and threaten
the remaining years of a life of hard work, integrity and
perserverance.
These two stories and a reminisence by Annis Ward Jackson make this
a delightful trio of holiday shorts. THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT
IN CHRISTMASVILLE A true cynic, Wesley Kempthorn decides he's going
to throw a monkey-wrench into Christmas in the small town where he
lives. He meets a mysterious stranger in the darkness who convinces
him otherwise. THE LIGHT IN THE WINDOW It's World War II and
residents of the little town of Bethyl in eastern North Carolina
try to determine why a singular young woman has moved into a house
that has been vacant for over twenty years. This is a new retelling
of the Christmas story. THE LAST CHRISTMAS DOLL This is a
reminiscence by the author about her most vivid Christmas memory.
Learn what happens when a tomboy gets the opposite of what she
wanted for Christmas.
Squidoo.com suggests this book as "a good mystery story to pass the
time on the auto train." In Mountain Mourning, the sixth in Annis
Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, the amateur
sleuth receives a letter and a packet of information from a man she
has only met twice and who has recently died under questionable, if
not suspicious, circumstances. Grant Taylor, a teacher at a private
prep school, had become curious about the mysterious disappearance
thirty years before of a young female teacher at another exclusive
private academy and he pleads for Rachel's help. After Myers
decides to continue Taylor's search, she finds the young teacher's
remains in a lonely grave off the Blue Ridge Parkway. The
"reluctant" detective probes her list of suspects and unveils their
motives. Then comes the task of deciding which one is the murderer.
Myers has never been more challenged or more perplexed as she
confronts a steadily dwindling list of suspects. The real murderer
is as much a shock to Myers as it will be to the reader.
This is the first in Annis Ward Jackson's series, Ellis Crawford
Murder Mysteries. A career Marine MP, seriously injured in a
terrorist bombing, decides to try life as a police chief in a small
town in eastern North Carolina. While attempting to familiarize
himself with the town's crime history he finds a red envelope
containing reports on four murders from four separate years, all
committed around Christmas. Chief Ellis Crawford has only a few
days to solve these murders and prevent the next, which he is
convinced will be on Christmas Day.
Annis Ward Jackson's EXIT HERE FOR MURDER is the third in her
Elllis Crawford Murder Mystery series. Police Chief in a small town
in eastern North Carolina, the young Ellis Crawford lives by the
adage, There is no such thing as an ex-Marine And it takes all the
experience from ten years service in the Marine Corp as a Military
Policeman for Crawford to assist the county sheriff in the search
for a serial rapist - despite the full knowledge that his
dispatcher/officer Ruby Lea Sutton may be the next victim
In Brown Mountain Breakdown, the ninth in Annis Ward Jackson's
Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, Myers and police detective
Robby Barnett launch an effort to try and find what caused a
long-time friend, a deputy sheriff, to committ suicide, or whether
his death was murder. Rachel Myers unearths a disappearance and
another questionable death and confronts the dangerous woman who is
tied to all three. Parts of this book are based on two actual cases
from the 1970's and 1980's.
HIGHLAND GAMES, number ten in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers
Murder Mystery series, finds amateur sleuth Rachel Myers tired and
weary from overseeing a new wing that's being added to the
retirement center where she is administrator. And she hasn't been
sleeping well. Then her attention is diverted by a more disturbing
problem -- her inexplicable forgetfulness The possibility of early
senility or Alzhiemers occur to Myers but Detective Robert Burnett
suggests that she is the victim of a stalker. Detective Burnett
moves in to help Myers come to terms with the problem and identify
the culprit before the plot takes a more violent turn
PATCHWORK is a collection of short stories and essays/articles
drawn for the most part from the life experience of Annis Ward
Jackson who was born and grew up in the Appalachian Mountains near
Boone, North Carolina during the nineteen fifties and sixties. The
collection touches on family life, rough weather, mountain farming,
folklore, mountain characters, long-held Appalachian traditions,
wild-crafting, and some "just pure fiction " PATCHWORK has been
described by a reviewer as a "good read without the stereotypes
often applied to mountain people and their culture."
In this, the eleventh murder mystery in the Rachel Myers series,
Annis Ward Jackson's reluctant detective begins a search for a
missing relative of one of her employees. Little does she
anticipate the terror that awaits her when she ties the missing
woman to the death of a wealthy heiress who is staying at Finster
Lodge, a remote hotel named for a nearby mountain with a sinister
past. Myers' mettle is severely tested as she tries to extricate
herself from a place that seems to offer only death. Some praise
for this series: CleanReadingMimi.com says: "This is a great read
for mystery buffs The author is really good at weaving the story
and setting up the characters so you care deeply about each one of
them." Readmedeadly.com says: "For nature lovers, Annis Ward
Jackson's Rachel Myers semi-cozy novellas, set in the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Appalachia, can be as addictive as popcorn "
INTO THE TWILIGHT is based on a story mostly ignored and/or
suppressed by generations of biographers of our 16th president,
Abraham Lincoln. The story of Lincoln having been born in
Rutherford County, North Carolina, the illegitimate son of a
wealthy, educated, and respected farmer and magistrate, has stayed
alive for over two hundred years because it was an undeniable part
of the history of that place. The residents of the area never
sought to have their county designated as Lincoln's birthplace.
After all, he was not a very popular figure in the south at the
time he was assassinated. There are volumes of testimonials on the
subject from respected judges, teachers, ministers, attorneys, and
everyday citizens going all the way back to the time when Lincoln
first ran for public office. INTO THE TWILIGHT is not an attempt on
the author's part to prove the story's validity. Her fascination
with the legend resulted in a novel, basically how she imagined the
situation to have occurred from the time Abraham Enloe left his
home in Charleston, South Carolina to the time Nancy Hanks Lincoln
died in 1818, leaving behind her son, Abraham, purported to be only
nine years old. Enloe had battled the elements and wild animals to
establish a home in the wilderness, and had fought at the Battle of
King's Mountain. However, although he was married and had several
children, nothing had prepared him for the overwhelming passion he
came to feel for young Nancy Hanks who had entered his home as a
bondservant eight years before at the age of ten. Enloe, his wife
Sarah, their daughter Nancy, Lucy and Nancy Hanks, Felix Walker,
and many other characters were real people. President Abraham
Lincoln makes only a brief appearance at the beginning of the
novel.Show more
Annis Ward Jackson features the world-famous Appalachian Trail in
this fifth book in the Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series.
Convinced by a friend to join a women's hiking club for a day on
the AT, Rachel has what she considers the bad luck to be the one
who finds the mutilated body of a young girl that has been dumped
just off the trail. Clues are practically nonexistent even after
the corpse has been identified as a local high school girl who was
supposed to be on spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The
victim's mother persuades the reluctant detective to try and find
out what happened. Although she feels lost without her best friend
and lover, Detective Robert Barnett, Myers ploughs ahead while she
gets to know a newcomer to the area, a video ad technician. Myers
becomes totally immersed in the crime and, although the motive
eludes her, she soon turns up several suspects. It could be the
moonshiner, the poacher, or the boyfriend. Or it could be someone
much closer to Rachel Myers.
THE NEW RIVER BLUES, fourth in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers
Murder Mystery series, finds the amateur and reluctant detective
plunged into an investigation with international implications. All
Rachel wants is a few quiet Saturdays at home. What she gets is
murder. The wild and scenic New River in the Appalachian Mountains
of North Carolina is threatened by mysterious polluters and
Rachel's friend and fellow musician makes it his mission to stop
them. Friend and lover, Detective Robert Barnett, is out of town so
Rachel must go it alone. Ride the rapids with Rachel Myers and
enjoy some of the most beautiful scenery in the eastern United
States while she searches for the murderer. Or will she become the
victim this time?
In CHRISTMAS TREE WARS, Annis Ward Jackson's third novel in the
Rachel Myers Murder Mystery Series, the reader finds Myers finally
and completely settled in the small Appalachian Mountain community
of Laurel Hill, North Carolina. The new retirement center where she
is administrator is up and running and so is her relationship with
Detective Robert Barnett. News that former lover David is married
finally frees her from that relationship so she buys a
quarterhorse, goes on an exciting trail ride, and comes home to
find that one of her favorite people, garden designer Danny DeBord,
has gone missing. As usual, Rachel observes from afar with no
intention of becoming involved in the investigation until she is
approached by a local woman whose son disappeared four years
earlier in suspiciously similar circumstances. That's all the
impetus needed for Myers to delve into the search for Danny DeBord,
and in the process, embroil herself to her most dangerous
predicament to date. Christmas trees figure prominently in this
mystery, both from the perspective of their effects on the local
environment, and their connection with the murder.
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