Product Description: Tom Perotta’s Little Children meets Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones in this suspenseful and beautifully wrought story of a seventeen-year-old girl who vanishes on the eve of her departure for college, as told through the alternating perspectives of her neighbors...read more

The rising tensions between two very different women, next-door neighbors--Amanda, a successful editor for a large New York publisher and pregnant with her first child, and Thea, a stay-at-home mother of three who has never really left her hometown--come to a head when disaster forces Amanda to seek refuge with Thea and dead animals begin appearing as macabre gifts on Thea's doorstep.

In an attempt to cope with her brother's suspicious death, Annabel Mendelssohn travels to Australia to do her graduate work on spectacled fruit bats, where she meets professor John Goode who suddenly disappears leaving Annabel on a quest to uncover the mystery. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Joining the Adventurer's Club as a means of temporarily escaping her needy siblings, hypochondriac father, and clinging boyfriend, Hannah Blue participates in increasingly dangerous escapades when her father's latest illness turns out to be real. 17,500 first printing.

In an attempt to cope with her brother's suspicious death, Annabel Mendelssohn travels to Australia to do her graduate work on spectacled fruit bats, where she meets professor John Goode who suddenly disappears leaving Annabel on a quest to uncover the mystery.