McLean, Virginia resident Jennifer Shannon's passion for weekend treasure hunting leads her into a world of crime, child abuse and murder.

After leaving a prestigious career to raise her daughter, thirty-five-year-old Elayna Leopold struggles with her husband's long work hours and recovers from the depression of losing an infant son in a growing relationship with an artist neighbor.

"Meet the trophy wives of Presidio Terrace, San Francisco's most exclusive--and most deadly--neighborhood in this shrewd, darkly compelling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of In Her Shadow."--

This is a novel about the persistence of longing in which the twin lives of the title character blur and overlap. Bird puts her child on the bus for school and passes the day with her baby. Interwoven into the passage of the day are phone calls from a promiscuous, unmarried friend, and Bird's recollection of the feral, reckless love she knew as a young woman. It's a day infused with fear and longing, an exploration of the ways the past shapes and...

"David Logan is a con man with four wives he plays like a deck of cards--until a car accident deals him a dead man's hand. Now the women he lied to--who thought they were happily settled down with the man of their dreams--have their lives turned upside down by a knock on their doors. All but one of them are left penniless and about to lose their homes, and all of them are too shocked to grieve. Finding out they'd been deceived was bad enough, but...

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers--...