Books

This was meant to be our fresh start. It’s turning into a nightmare.

It seemed like a dream come true when we first moved in. A chance to leave my stressful job behind and fix things with James. But something gnaws at me each morning as I wave my husband off to work from our gated community, accept a coffee from Lin, our housekeeper, and watch...

November. Wednesday. I think he’s going to kill me.

Every day, in her basement flat in a quiet street, Rene arranges her collection of objects just so. She takes her pills, looks at her photographs and remembers her free-spirited sister, Lauren, before she vanished.

But lately the memories are shifting. When a letter arrives out of the blue, the...