Bøker av Jane Shemilt

"The vacation house is a luxurious getaway for a wealthy English family, windows open to sun and the sea, a sparkling swimming pool, and a verdant garden. One hot summer night, while the parents and their friends drink wine and amuse themselves, a young woman, the teenage daughter of the Greek caretaker, ventures for a walk on their private beach. Her life will never be the same again. Julia is the perfect spouse and mother. Slender, blonde, expensively dressed, she's the classic 'yummy mummy' of high society: cook, organizer, arm candy, and speechwriter to her influential husband. But behind her winning smile is a stifled woman trapped in a gilded cage, stricken with anxiety and perfectionism. When Julia meets Laurel, a therapist who promises to help her find fulfillment, Julia opens herself up to the hope of a different future. What happened in Greece all those years ago that binds these two women together? And will uncovering the truth destroy everything, or set them free?"--

From the bestselling author of The Patient comes another powerful novel about betrayal, family and the secrets of the past. 'Jane Shemilt is a mistress at skilfully weaving seemingly perfect family lives with deadly secrets from the past in stunning locations.' Jane Corry

A shocking and twisty novel of psychological suspense about a boundary-breaking love affair between a doctor and her patient, by Jane Shemilt, Edgar-nominated, #1 international bestselling author of The Daughter. What price would you pay for falling in love?Rachel is a respected doctor who lives in a picturesque and affluent English village where her husband Nathan teaches at an elite private school. Competent, unflappable, and nearing 50, Rachel has everything in her life firmly in her control, even if some of its early luster has worn off. But one day a new patient arrives at her practice for emergency treatment. Luc is a French painter married to a wealthy American woman who's just bought and restored a historic home on the edge of Rachel's posh neighborhood. The couple has only recently arrived, but Luc is struggling with a mental disorder, and so he goes to the nearest clinic...to Rachel.Their attraction is instant, and as Rachel's sense of ethics wars with newly awakened passion, the affair blinds her to everything else happening around her. A longtime patient appears to be following her every movement, turning up unexpectedly wherever she goes. Her somewhat estranged adult daughter Lizzie is hiding a secret--or at least, hiding it from Rachel. Nathan has grown sour and cold as well--or is that merely Rachel's guilty conscience weighing on her? But when one of her colleagues winds up murdered and Luc is arrested for the crime, everything Rachel didn't know about her life explodes into the open--along with her affair with her patient--a disgrace and scandal that will have consequences no one could have predicted.

The haunting new novel from the author of 2014's stunning Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller DaughterThe press conference, one year agoOur home is a crime scene now.I am in yesterday's clothes. The clothes in which I kissed Sam goodbye. Then he'd belonged only to us. Now his image will be shared with the world. We should be grateful.'Our son . . . Sam . . .' My eyes fill with tears, the writing on the paper blurs. 'Someone took him. Please help us . . .'I back away from the microphone, the paper falls from my hands. The anniversaryThe Jordan family thought they would return from their gap year abroad enriched, better people, a closer family. Not minus one child.A year on, Emma remains haunted by the image of that empty cot, thousands of miles away, the chasm between her and the rest of the family growing with each day that Sam remains missing. Is her son still out there? Will the mystery about what happened that night ever be unravelled?Praise for Daughter 'Utterly gripping. A tautly coiled spring of suspicion and suspense which builds to a devastating ending' Mail On Sunday'Complex and baffling. Jane Shemilt builds layer upon layer of tension in a novel you won't be able to put down' Tess Gerritsen 'Ostensibly a suspense novel about the disappearance of a teenage girl, this taut and thought-provoking debut novel explores a working mother's guilt, something all-too familiar to many of us' Woman & Home

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RUNAWAY RICHARD & JUDY PHENOMENONThere's a stranger in your daughter's room. It's your daughter . . . Naomi is missing. Her mother Jenny is desperately searching for answers. Is finding her the only way to put their family back together?Or will discovering the truth about Naomi finally tear them apart?'We absolutely loved this' Richard & Judy Book Club'Thrilling' Sunday Express'Taut and thought-provoking' Woman & Home'Clever' Sun'Utterly gripping' Mail On Sunday