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Better Sister
Alafair Burke
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Belletristik / Krimis, Thriller, Spionage
Beschreibung
A Washington Post and Sun Sentinel Best Book of the YearOne hell of a rip-roaring read.Seattle Review of BooksCunning. . . . Get ready to be led down the garden path to a conclusion so morally ambiguous a professional ethicist might have to be called in.Washington PostFrom Alafair BurkeNew York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit, The Wife comes another twisty tale of domestic noir. When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sistersone the dead mans widow, the other his exmust set aside mistrust and old resentments ... but can they escape their past?Keep your enemies close and your sister closer.Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be the one in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nickyalways restless and more than a little recklesswas the opposite of her ambitious little sister. She floated from job to job and man to man, and stayed close to home in Cleveland.For a while, it seemed that both sisters had found happiness. Chloe earned a scholarship to an Ivy League school and moved to New York City, where she landed a coveted publishing job. Nicky married promising young attorney Adam Macintosh and gave birth to a baby boy they named Ethan. The Taylor sisters became virtual strangers.Now, more than fifteen years later, their lives are drastically differentand Chloe is married to Adam. When hes murdered by an intruder at the couples East Hampton beach house, Chloe reluctantly allows her teenage stepsons biological motherher estranged sister, Nickyback into her life. But when the police begin to treat Ethan as a suspect in his fathers death, the two sisters are forced to unite . . . and to confront the truth behind family secrets they have tried to bury in the past.
