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Strange Sally Diamond
Published in Canada & USA in August 2023
āāPut me out with the bins,ā he said, regularly. āWhen I die, put me out with the bins. Iāll be dead, so I wonāt know any different. Youāll be crying your eyes out,ā and he would laugh and Iād laugh too because we both knew that I wouldnāt be crying my eyes out. I never cry.ā
Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now sheās the centre of attention, not only from the hungry media, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember.
As she begins to discover the horrors of her early childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time - making new friends and big decisions, and learning that people donāt always mean what they say.
But who is the man observing Sally from the other side of the world? And why does her new neighbour seem to be obsessed with her? Sallyās trust issues are about to be severely challengedā¦.
Little Cruelties
āAll three of the Drumm brothers were at the funeral.
But one of them was in the coffin.ā
William, Brian, and Luke: three boys, born a year apart, trained from birth by their wily mother to compete for her attention. They play games, as brothers doā¦yet even after the Drumms escape into the world beyond their windows, those gamesāthose little crueltiesāgrow more sinister, more merciless, and more dangerous. And with their lives entwined like the strands of a noose, only two of the brothers will survive.
Lying in Wait
āMy husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it.ā
In 1980s Dublin, Lydia Fitzsimons seems to have the perfect lifeāwife of Andrew, a respected judge, and mistress of Avalon, the beautiful house where she grew up. Her pride and joy, however, is her only child, her son Laurence, to whom she is utterly, obsessively devoted.
But her husbandās murder of Annie Doyle, accidental or not, sets into motion a dark downward spiral. No one knows what Lydia and Andrew were doing with a drug-addled prostitute late at night on a deserted stretch of the strand near Dublin, but they stuffed her body into the trunk of their car and buried it in their tidy suburban garden, hoping that will put the matter to rest. Annie was a junkie from the wrong side of the tracks; surely no one will miss her or care to find out what happened to her.
Unraveling Oliver
āI expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.ā
Oliver Ryan, a handsome, charismatic, and successful man, is happily married to his wife, Alice, who illustrates the award-winning childrenās books he writes and devotedly cares for him in their comfortable suburban home. Their life together is one of enviable privilege and easeāuntil, one evening after a delightful dinner, Oliver delivers blows to Alice that render her comatose.
As Alice hovers between life and death in her hospital bed, the coupleās circle of friends, neighbors, and acquaintances try to understand what could have driven Oliver to commit such an astonishing act of savagery. Oliver tells his story, peeling away the layers to reveal a life of shame, envy, breath-taking deception, and masterful manipulation. As details about his past catch up with him, even he is in for a shock.
Unraveling Oliver is a complex, disturbing, and brilliantly written page-turner about how and why a human being transforms into a sociopath.