Janelle Brown

Janice hat alles, was eine Frau braucht: einen erfolgreichen Ehemann, zwei reizende Tochter, eine prachtige Villa vor den Toren San Franciscos. Und als ein genial eingefadelter Borsencoup ihres Mannes der Familie auf einen Schlag Millionen beschert, scheint ihr Gluck vollkommen zu sein. Doch Janice hat die Rechnung ohne ihren Gatten gemacht, und plotzlich sturzt ihr perfektes Leben ein wie ein Kartenhaus.

Nina gagne sa vie en escroquant la jeunesse dorée de Los Angeles qu’elle traque sur les réseaux sociaux. La jeune femme a été à bonne école depuis son enfance : sa mère, une arnaqueuse de première, s

Set amid the manicured lawns, glossy Porsche four-wheel drives, and country club whispers of the Silicon Valley nouveau riche, ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING chronicles one particularly eventful summer in the life of the Miller family. Three very different women, each poised for success, find themselves failing spectacularly: Janice, a devoted mother and housewife who''s approaching fifty finds herself abandoned by her husband just as his lucrative IPO goes public; her adult daughter Margaret, a post-feminist magazine editor is left in the lurch by an investor who had promised to rescue her flagging publication; and her younger teenage daughter Lizzie, an endearingly na ve fourteen-year-old struggling to understand the sexual politics and popularity contests that dominate high school, is humiliated by the boys whose affections she had so unquestioningly embraced. We follow the three of them over the course of one summer as at first they hide their crises - addiction, teenage promiscuity, bankruptcy - from one another, but then find their secrets exposed as the curtain-twitching world they inhabit begins to intrude. The Miller women cloister themselves in their suburban home for the summer and do battle with debt collectors, divorce lawyers, drug-dealing pool boys, and each other. ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING is a thoughtful and clever study of three very different women trying to keep afloat; a wonderfully entertaining exploration of how our notions of failure, success, and personal fulfillment are complicated by the expectations of family, culture, and an increasingly money-obsessed society.

Absolutely delicious . . . Janelle Brown is a surgeon of the complex relationships between women. I gobbled this up' Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of All Adults Here 'You won't be able to put this novel down and you won't want to' Laura Dave, no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me 'One of those books you'll devour' Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant 'Janelle Brown has done it again. She has created a deliciously twisty page-turner you won't be able to put down' Angie Kim, Edgar Award-winning author of Miracle Creek 'You be me, and I'll be you' I whispered. As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldn't even tell them apart. And once Hollywood discovered them, they became B-list child TV stars, often inhabiting the same role. But as adults, their lives have splintered. After leaving acting, Elli reinvented herself as the perfect homemaker: married to a real estate lawyer, living in a house just blocks from the beach. Meanwhile, Sam has never recovered from her failed Hollywood career, or from her addiction to the pills and booze that have propped her up for the last fifteen years. Sam hasn't spoken to her sister since her destructive behavior finally drove a wedge between them. So when her father calls out of the blue, Sam is shocked to learn that Elli's life has been in turmoil: her husband moved out, and Elli just adopted a two-year-old girl. Now she's stopped answering her phone and checked in to a mysterious spa in Ojai. Is her sister just decompressing, or is she in trouble? Could she have possibly joined a cult? As Sam works to connect the dots left by Elli's baffling disappearance, she realizes that the bond between her and her sister is more complicated than she ever knew.

SOON TO BE A LIMITED SERIES STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN'Pretty Things is awesome. Simple as that. I loved every page'Harlan Coben'It's Dynasty meets Patricia Highsmith' Washington Post 'Will keep you turning pages till the end'Attica Locke 'Outrageously entertaining'Times Crime Club Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career.When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in L.A. alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan. But when her mom falls ill, Nina puts everything on the line to help her, running her most dangerous scam yet.Vanessa is a privileged young heiress who wanted to make her mark in the world. Instead she becomes an Instagram influencer - but behind the covetable facade is a life marked by tragedy. After a broken engagement, Vanessa retreats to her family's sprawling mountain estate, a mansion of dark secrets.It's there that her path collides with Nina's and gives way to a winter of desire and aspiration, duplicity and revenge. 'Smart, seductive, and utterly captivating' PopSugar'Deliciously fun' The Week'A can't-look-away story of and for our generation' Chandler Baker, author of Whisper Network'Literary suspense at its best' Angie Kim, author of Miracle Creek

TAN ADICTIVA COMO TU SERIE FAVORITA "Una novela sobre el poder y los peligros de las redes sociales." Booklist "Apasionante. Su lectura es adictiva." Los Angeles Times Book Review Nina solo roba lo que otros no echan de menos... Y solo a quienes pueden permitirselo. Esto es lo que va a pasarle al proximo millonario que se cruce en el camino de Nina: cuando la velada que acaban de compartir se convierta en un vago recuerdo y el coja sus maletas #louisvuitton para una escapada con sus amigos de la jet set con botellas de #domperignon y trajes de #versace, ella aparcara una furgoneta frente a la mansion vacia de su nueva presa. Usara los codigos de la alarma que ha conseguido la noche anterior y se llevara algunas piezas. Podria robarle mas, pero no lo hara. Seguira sus propias reglas... hasta que su situacion cambia de repente. Ahora necesita mucho mas dinero. Su proxima victima no sera desconocida. "Brillante." Booklist "De plena actualidad." Los Angeles Times " Brown es una novelista dotada, una fuera de serie." San Francisco Chronicle

How well do you really know the person you love the most?*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Billie is charismatic. She is beautiful. And she has the perfect life. So when she disappears without a trace, the police think she must be dead.But what if the truth is even worse? A year after Billie disappears, her daughter Olive and husband Jonathan are determined to find out what happened to her. Together they begin to examine Billies past - for answers, for closure, and with the underlying hope they will bring her home alive.But their search unearths her darkest secrets and only raises more questions: Who was Billie Flanagan? And how well do we really know the people we love the most?Gripping and heartbreaking in equal measure, WATCH ME DISAPPEARis perfect for fans of BIG LITTLE LIES, THE MARRIAGE PACT and THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR._______________________________________________Readers love WATCH ME DISAPPEARClever and compelling Lisa GardnerTantalizing and twisty . . . a spiders web of a novel . . . You wont be able to put it down Megan AbbottJust as riveting as Gone GirlSan Francisco ChronicleA riveting, seductive read about the secret, protected places within even the most intimate relationships . . . I loved it Sara GruenA twisty, involving mysteryPeopleBrown imbues realism in each character, whose complicated emotions fuel the suspenseful storyAssociated PressBrowns novel is more than just a page-turning suspense story. Its a gripping family drama that focuses on the choices we make and the ties that bind us to the ones we lovePublishers WeeklyThis brilliantly layered novel is full of twists and turns, tender and biting and vibrantBooklist

Life is beautiful for Claudia and Jeremy. They are a young, bohemian couple whose hard work in both the film and music world is finally paying off. Claudias first film is in the can and Jeremy and his band are going places. Now seems like the perfect time to settle down and buy a house.But this is summer 2008, and the credit crunch is round the corner. In a matter of weeks Claudias film becomes a box-office flop, Jeremys band stalls and - worst of all - they find themselves unable to pay the mortgage, with the bank threatening repossession. The life theyve been dreaming of comes tumbling down around them. Claudia takes a teaching job in attempt to placate the bank, and suddenly everything their relationship has been built on looks precarious. Jeremy sees her selling out as a betrayal of their bohemian values, and when his glamorous ex-girlfriend Aoki, a famous painter, returns to LA, Claudia starts to realise that her relationship is in danger of disintegrating unless she does something to save it...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A teenage girl breaks free from her fathers world of isolation to discover that her whole life is a lie in this absorbing and well-crafted (The Washington Post) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear.A mesmerizing blend of coming-of-age and psychological suspense, set against the birth of the internet age.PeopleThe first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Waldenesque utopia.As Jane becomes a teenager she starts pushing against the boundaries of her restricted world. She begs to accompany her father on his occasional trips away from the cabin. But when Jane realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice to a horrific crime, she flees Montana to the only place she knows to look for answers about her mysterious past, and her mothers death: San Francisco. It is a city in the midst of a seismic change, where her quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the possibilities and the perils of the fledgling internet, and where she will come to question everything she values.In this sweeping, suspenseful novel from bestselling author Janelle Brown, we see a young woman on a quest to understand how we come to know ourselves. It is a bold and unforgettable story about parents and children; nature and technology; innocence and knowledge; the losses of our past and our dreams for the future.

Absolutely delicious... Janelle Brown is a surgeon of the complex relationships between women. I gobbled this upEmma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of All Adults HereYou wont be able to put this novel down and you wont want toLaura Dave, no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me One of those books youll devourChris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of The Flight AttendantA deliciously twisty page-turner you wont be able to put downAngie Kim, Edgar Award-winning author of Miracle CreekYou be me, and Ill be you I whispered.As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldnt even tell them apart. And once Hollywood discovered them, they became B-list child TV stars, often inhabiting the same role. But as adults, their lives have splintered. After leaving acting, Elli reinvented herself as the perfect homemaker: married to a real estate lawyer, living in a house just blocks from the beach. Meanwhile, Sam has never recovered from her failed Hollywood career, or from her addiction to the pills and booze that have propped her up for the last fifteen years. Sam hasnt spoken to her sister since her destructive behavior finally drove a wedge between them. So when her father calls out of the blue, Sam is shocked to learn that Ellis life has been in turmoil: her husband moved out, and Elli just adopted a two-year-old girl. Now shes stopped answering her phone and checked in to a mysterious spa in Ojai. Is her sister just decompressing, or is she in trouble? Could she have possibly joined a cult? As Sam works to connect the dots left by Ellis baffling disappearance, she realizes that the bond between her and her sister is more complicated than she ever knew.

SOON TO BE A LIMITED SERIES STARRING NICOLE KIDMANPretty Things is awesome. Simple as that. I loved every pageHarlan CobenIts Dynasty meets Patricia HighsmithWashington PostWill keep you turning pages till the endAttica LockeOutrageously entertainingTimes Crime ClubNina once bought into the idea that her fancy arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in L.A. alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan. But when her mom falls ill, Nina puts everything on the line to help her, running her most dangerous scam yet.Vanessa is a privileged young heiress who wanted to make her mark in the world. Instead she becomes an Instagram influencer - but behind the covetable façade is a life marked by tragedy.After a broken engagement, Vanessa retreats to her familys sprawling mountain estate, a mansion of dark secrets. Its there that her path collides with Ninas and gives way to a winter of desire and aspiration, duplicity and revenge.Smart, seductive, and utterly captivatingPopSugarDeliciously funThe WeekA cant-look-away story of and for our generationChandler Baker, author of Whisper NetworkLiterary suspense at its bestAngie Kim, author of Miracle Creek

Janice Miller knows this: she loves her husband, her two spirited daughters and the beautiful home in which she has raised her family. But what she doesnt know is how to stay afloat when a devastating discovery tears that familiar world apart. It is only once the damage has been done that she finally realises how distant her daughters have become - and that schoolgirl Lizzie and 28-year-old Margaret now have dark secrets of their own. After years of following separate lives, they are reluctantly drawn back together under the same roof.Its the outside world that has unravelled their dreams, but what they all fear most now is each other. Yet its there, in the family home, that they are forced to confront their crises - and where, slowly, each of them begins to heal.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The disappearance of a beautiful, charismatic mother leaves her family to piece together her secrets in this propulsive novel for fans of Big Little Liesfrom the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and the upcoming Pretty Things.Watch Me Disappear is just as riveting as Gone Girl.San Francisco ChronicleWho you want people to be makes you blind to who they really are. Its been a year since Billie Flanagana Berkeley mom with an enviable lifewent on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. Her body was never found, just a shattered cellphone and a solitary hiking boot. Her husband and teenage daughter have been coping with Billies death the best they can: Jonathan drinks as he works on a loving memoir about his marriage; Olive grows remote, from both her father and her friends at the all-girls school she attends. But then Olive starts having strange visions of her mother, still alive. Jonathan worries about Olives emotional stability, until he starts unearthing secrets from Billies past that bring into question everything he thought he understood about his wife. Who was the woman he knew as Billie Flanagan? Together, Olive and Jonathan embark on a quest for the truthabout Billie, but also about themselves, learning, in the process, about all the ways that love can distort what we choose to see. Janelle Browns insights into the dynamics of intimate relationships will make you question the stories you tell yourself about the people you love, while her nervy storytelling will keep you guessing until the very last page.Praise for Watch Me DisappearWatch Me Disappear is a surprising and compelling read. Like the best novels, it takes the reader somewhere she wouldnt otherwise allow herself to go. . . . Its strongest in the places that matter most: in the believability of its characters and the irresistibility of its plot.Chicago TribuneJanelle Browns third family drama delivers an incisive and emotional view of how grief and recovery from loss can seep into each aspect of a persons life. . . . Brown imbues realism in each character, whose complicated emotions fuel the suspenseful story.Associated PressWhen a Berkeley mother vanishes and is declared dead, her daughter is convinced shes alive in Janelle Browns thriller, calling to mind Big Little Lies and Gone Girl.Variety

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Sam et Elli sont deux jumelles fusionnelles à la ressemblance parfaite. Dès leur enfance, elles deviennent des stars de la télévision. À trente ans, la célébrité les a déjà usées. Alors que Sam se no

TAN ADICTIVA COMO TU SERIE FAVORITAUna novela sobre el poder y los peligros de las redes sociales. BooklistApasionante. Su lectura es adictiva. Los Angeles Times Book ReviewNINA SOLO ROBA LO QUE NO ECHAN DE MENOS... Y SOLO A QUIENES PUEDEN PERMITIRSELO.Esto es lo que va a pasarle al proximo millonario que se cruce en el camino de Nina: cuando la velada que acaban de compartir se convierta en un vago recuerdo y el coja sus maletas #louisvuitton para una escapada con sus amigos de la jet set con botellas de #domperignon y trajes de #versace, ella aparcara una furgoneta frente a la mansion vacia de su nueva presa. Usara los codigos de la alarma que ha conseguido la noche anterior y se llevara algunas piezas. Podria robarle mas, pero no lo hara. Seguira sus propias reglas... hasta que su situacion cambia de repente. Ahora necesita mucho mas dinero. Su proxima victima no sera desconocida.Brillante. BooklistDe plena actualidad. Los Angeles TimesBrown es una novelista dotada, una fuera de serie. San Francisco Chronicle

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Whos really following you on social media? The scam of a lifetime brings together two wildly different women in this page-turning thriller about greed, legacy, and betrayal from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear.An ID Book Club Selection Its Dynasty meets Patricia Highsmith.The Washington Post Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in L.A. alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan. Nina learned from the best: Her mother was the original con artist, hustling to give her daughter a decent childhood despite their wayward life. But when her mom gets sick, Nina puts everything on the line to help her, even if it means running her most audacious, dangerous scam yet. Vanessa is a privileged young heiress who wanted to make her mark in the world. Instead she becomes an Instagram influencertraveling the globe, receiving free clothes and products, and posing for pictures in exotic locales. But behind the covetable façade is a life marked by tragedy. After a broken engagement, Vanessa retreats to her familys sprawling mountain estate, Stonehaven: a mansion of dark secrets not just from Vanessas past, but from that of a lost and troubled girl named Nina. Ninas, Vanessas, and Lachlans paths collide here, on the cold shores of Lake Tahoe, where their intertwined lives give way to a winter of aspiration and desire, duplicity and revenge. This dazzling, twisty, mesmerizing novel showcases acclaimed author Janelle Brown at her best, as two brilliant, damaged women try to survive the greatest game of deceit and destruction they will ever play.