The safe place : a novel / Anna Downes.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250264800 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1250264804 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 353 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2020.
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Subject: | Household employees > Fiction. Rich people > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | DOWNE A (Text) | 33126024231189 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | DOWNE A (Text) | 33126024231205 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | DOWNE A (Text) | 33126024231197 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2020 February
Following the
Copyright 2020 Library Journal.LJ -starredOur House , which was Candlish's U.S. debut,The Other Couple features middle-aged Clare and Jamie and the young couple they befriend, the upwardly aspiring Melia and Kit, until one day Kit vanishes after being seen arguing with Jamie on their regular ferryboat commute. Giller Prize winner Coady'sWatching You Without Me opens with Karen back home in Novia Scotia after her mother's unexpected death, tending to her sister full-time and depending on her mother's old caregiver, Trevor, of whom she becomes increasingly suspicious. In JP Delaney'sPlaying Nice , the Riley and Lambert families are devastated to learn that their two-year-olds were switched at birthâand it gets worse. A prize finalist in Australia, Downes brings us disappointed thespian Emily Proudman, who thinks she's foundThe Safe Place she needs when she agrees to become housekeeper/nanny at the French estate of the Dennysâbut her employers' dark secrets will out. In debuter Glass'sSomeone's Listening, scandal-ridden psychologist and radio star Faith Finley attends the launch of her new book with her husband, but when her car crashes afterward, the police claim he was not with her (70,000-copy first printing). In Hamilton'sThe Last Wife , Marie promises to watch over terminally ill friend Nina's family, but after Nina's death she starts uncovering uncomfortable intimations about what happened on a long-ago vacation they took in Ibiza that left Marie's boyfriend dead (200,000-copy paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing). Finally, in Harriet Tyce'sThe Lies You Told , anxious mom Sadie Roper, newly single and newly reemployed as a barrister, is thrilled to win the attention of Liza, queen-bee mother at her children's schoolâbut at what cost? From the author ofBlood Orange ; with a 40,000-copy first printing.