Who Killed the Robins Family?


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White Bodies


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This chilling psychological suspense novel—think Strangers on a Train for the modern age—explores the dark side of love and the unbreakable ties that bind two sisters together. Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple: young and in love, a financier and a beautiful up-and-coming starlet. But behind their flawless façade, not everything is as it seems. Callie, Tilda’s unassuming twin, has watched her sister visibly shrink under Felix’s domineering love. She has looked on silently as Tilda stopped working, nearly stopped eating, and turned into a neat freak, with mugs wrapped in Saran Wrap and suspicious syringes hidden in the bathroom trash. She knows about Felix’s uncontrollable rages, and has seen the bruises on the white skin of her sister’s arms. Worried about the psychological hold that Felix seems to have over Tilda, Callie joins an Internet support group for victims of abuse and their friends. However, things spiral out of control and she starts to doubt her own judgment when one of her new acquaintances is killed by an abusive man. And then suddenly Felix dies—or was he murdered? A page-turning work of suspense that announces a stunning new voice in fiction, White Bodies will change the way you think about obsession, love, and the violence we inflict on one another—and ourselves.




Publishers Weekly


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The Revenge of the Robins Family


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Readers match wits with a killer as they follow the international escapades of Taylor Robins and family lawyer Julian Shields




The Little Friend


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. • “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —The New York Times Book Review The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.




Esquire


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The Revenge of Tom Dollar


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Tom Dollar, black, handsome and brave. The son of a Royal Navy Captain and a beautiful American slave, in the summer of 1860 Tom Dollar is jailed for murder on the fortress Rock of Gibraltar. He claims he was provoked by a slave-owner and acted in self defense. His beautiful girl friend of Irish and Portuguese descent vows to obtain his freedom from the formidable Moorish prison. In this rollicking tale Reg Reynolds takes you around the world to the plantations of South Carolina, the docks of Liverpool, the naval yards of London, the brothels of South America and the slave camps of Africa. Shipwrecks, murder, romance all feature in this page-turning saga of high adventure.




Red Book


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"The magazine for young adults" (varies).




Fabulous histories. The history of the robins


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The first of these period pieces is an exhortation to children to be kind to animals using fictional incidents in a human and a robin family. The second features a gentle and pious creature who, even in death, inspires those around her.