House of glass

House of glass

Sarah Pekkanen

Book - 2024

"Rose Barclay is a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the possible murder of her nanny -- in the midst of her parent's bitter divorce -- and immediately stopped speaking. Stella Hudson is a best interest attorney, appointed to serve as counsel for children in custody cases. She never accepts clients under thirteen due to her own traumatic childhood, but Stella's mentor, a revered judge, believes Stella is the only one who can help. From the moment Stella passes through the iron security gate and steps into the gilded, historic DC home of the Barclays, she realizes the case is even more twisted, and the Barclay family far more troubled, than she feared. And there's something eerie about the house itself: It's a plastic... house, with not a single bit of glass to be found. As Stella comes closer to uncovering the secrets the Barclays are desperate to hide, danger wraps around her like a shroud, and her past and present are set on a collision course in ways she never expected. Everyone is a suspect in the nanny's murder. The mother, the father, the grandmother, the nanny's boyfriend. Even Rose. Is the person Stella's supposed to protect the one she may need protection from?"--

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Subjects
Women lawyers > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Child witnesses > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Psychic trauma > Fiction.
Divorce > Fiction.
Custody of children > Fiction.
Potomac (Md.) > Fiction.
Washington (D.C.) > Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
Genres
Suspense fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction
Novels
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Sarah Pekkanen (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
340 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781250283993
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

Pekkanen, who has coauthored a shiver of psychological suspense novels with Greer Hendricks (including The Golden Couple, 2022, and The Wife between Us, 2018), and who was the solo author of the 2023 shocker Gone Tonight, has concocted a terrifying gothic thriller. Her latest stars a century-old house that has a "Fall of the House of Usher" feel of danger and evil emanating from it--and a very tense family within. The narrator, Stella Hudson, is a lawyer who enters this strange house after a pregnant nanny has fallen to her death from one of the house's windows. Stella has been appointed as a best-interest attorney in a custody battle between the parents for the nanny's charge, a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the nanny's fall. Stella's access to the house and everyone connected to it puts her in the perfect position to determine whether the nanny fell, jumped, or was pushed out the window. Homicide suspects abound, since the father was having an affair with the nanny, the mother and nanny's boyfriend were both jealous and enraged, and even the little girl, mute since the incident, gives off some serious bad-seed vibes. The excellent portrayal of fragile psyches and knife-edge suspense throughout make this a winner.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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