Louise Millar

You leave your kids with a friend. Everyone does it. Until the day it goes wrong. Single mother Callie has come to rely heavily on her best friend Suzy. But Callie suspects Suzy''s life isn''t as simple as it seems. It''s time she pulled away - going back to work is just the first step towards rediscovering her old confidence. So why does she keep putting off telling Suzy about her new job? Suzy and Callie live close to each other on a typical cramped, anonymous London street. Neighbours seem to move in, and move on, before you have even learned their names. Callie''s increased sense of alienation leads her to try to befriend a new resident on her street, Debs. But Debs is anxious, odd. You wouldn''t trust her with your child - especially not if you knew anything about her past. A brilliant and chilling evocation of modern life, The Playdate is a real talking-point book for mothers everywhere.

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From Louise Millar, the acclaimed author of The Playdate, comes a gripping psychological thriller where one womans streak of bad luck may be something far more sinister.A MAGNETIC AND CHILLING NEW THRILLER FROM HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR LOUISE MILLAR Kate Parker has weathered unimaginable horrorsher parents died in a traffic accident on her wedding night, and her husband, Hugo, was murdered in a tragic break-in gone wrong. All she has left is her young son, Jack, and determined to make a better future for him, she attempts to pull her life back together. But are she and her son safe?

A tense, twist-filled domestic suspense novel about a mother whose seemingly perfect London neighborhood hides dangerous secrets, toxic friendships, and a truth she is desperate to keep buried.TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED... In a quiet London suburb, a group of mothers relies on each other for friendship, favors, and gossip. But some of them shouldnt be trusted, and others have dark secrets. When Callie moved into her new neighborhood, she thought it would be easy to fit in. The other parents have been strangely hostile, though, and her frail daughter Rae is finding it impossible to make friends. Suzy, with her rich husband and her three energetic children, has been the only one to reach out, although their friendship has recently felt inexplicably strained. Now the police have suggested that someone dangerous may be living in their neighborhood, and the atmosphere feels even more toxic. Then theres the matter of Callies ex-husband, and the shocking truth behind their divorce...a truth that she would do anything to hide.

Em um subúrbio tranquilo de Londres, algumas mães se ajudam através de amizade, favores e fofocas. No entanto, algumas delas não parecem confiáveis e outras têm segredos obscuros.Quando Callie se mud

Kate Parker has had so much bad luck in her life, shes convinced shes cursed. But when she tries to do her best to keep herself and her son safe, people tell her shes being anxious and obsessive. Just when her life starts to spin completely out of control, an Oxford professor she meets offers to help. But his methods are not conventional. If she wants to live her life again, he will expect her to take risks. When a mysterious neighbour starts to take more than a passing interest in her, Kate tries to stay rational and ignore it. Maybe this, however, is the one time Kate should be worried.

One cold March morning, a removal van arrives at Tornley Hall in Suffolk. Will and Hannah Riley have been waiting a long time to adopt, and Hannah is obsessed that this new dream family home in Tornley, will improve their chances with social services. She has given up her career at a human rights organisation, and persuaded a reluctant Will to give up their flat in London. Yet as Will starts to commute back to work, heavy snow arrives. Hannah finds herself cut off from the world in this tiny, isolated hamlet. As she paints over the cracks in the abandoned old house, trying to ignore its reflection of the recent change in her once-happy marriage to Will, the house starts to reveal unexpected secrets to her. Rooms are locked. Intruders break in. There are strange noises and shadows at night. When Hannah witnesses an assault on a vulnerable woman in a neighbouring field, she starts to realise that everything in Tornley is also not what it seems. She has to make a choice. Tell the police, and risk her social worker becoming suspicious about the safety of Hannah and Wills new home; or cover up the crime, to get what she wants. Hannah makes her choice. Then just as their social worker is due to visit to approve their new home, a shocking turn of events takes place that rips Hannahs world apart. Before she knows it, she is alone, frightened, and trapped in a place where no one ever goes . . .

Single mother Callie has come to rely heavily on her best friend Suzy. But Callie suspects Suzys life isnt as simple as it seems. Its time she pulled away - going back to work is just the first step towards rediscovering her old confidence. So why does she keep putting off telling Suzy about her new job? Suzy and Callie live close to each other on a typical cramped, anonymous London street. Neighbours seem to move in, and move on, before you have even learned their names. Callies increased sense of alienation leads her to try to befriend a new resident on her street, Debs. But Debs is anxious, odd. You wouldnt trust her with your child - especially not if you knew anything about her past. A brilliant and chilling evocation of modern life, The Playdate is a real talking-point book for mothers everywhere.

Grace Scott returns from honeymoon with her new husband, Mac, to find a man lying dead in their new Edinburgh flat. They dont know who he is or where hes come from.The mystery of his identity remains unsolved. Then, three months later, Grace finds a note tucked inside one of the wedding gifts which sends her on a journey to discover what really happened in her flat. A journey that becomes more dangerous the closer she comes to the truth . . . What she discovers will change her life.Set in Edinburgh and travelling to Amsterdam, Paris and Copenhagen, CITY OF STRANGERS is a gripping story of deception, lies and corruption.

Nueva novela de la llamada la Rosamund Lupton del thriller psicológico femenino, que no dejará de sorprenderte. La cita presenta a su autora, Louise Millar, como la última revelación del suspense britanico. No en vano este thriller psicologico de corte femenino ha logrado convencer, antes incluso de su publicacion en el Reino Unido, a los principales editores internaciones, que aplauden la irrupcion de una nueva voz del suspense que llega para quedarse. Ahora la primera novela de Louise Millar se publica en lengua española para añadir seguidores a sus legiones de lectores en medio mundo. Callie y Suzy son dos amigas que comparten barrio, inquietudes y la amistad de sus hijos. Callie es una madre soltera y Suzy parece tener una vida perfecta. Pero... ¿que pasa cuando la irrupcion de una nueva vecina parece cambiarlo todo? ¿Y si de pronto los comportamientos habituales parecen extraños? ¿Cual es el limite de la confianza entre desconocidos?