Leave the Lights On: A Novel
By (Author) Liv Andersson
Crooked Lane Books
Crooked Lane Books
14th November 2023
United States
General
Fiction
813.6
Hardback
256
Width 160mm, Height 242mm
567g
Perfect for fans of Wendy Walker and Samantha Downing, in this thrilling domestic suspense novel, a woman fights to hide her secrets as her life's idyllic fa ade begins to fall apart. Cape Morgan, Maine, is the utopian ideal for a charmed life, and Beatrice Wicker knows it. The multi-million-dollar house on the sea coast. The joint bank accounts. The safety and security that go along with being married to an esteemed architect and community leader. The scenic coastline, perfect for her ambitious plan to turn an abandoned asylum into an artists' retreat. So what if her husband sneaks off to see his second family now and again Beatrice is willing to look the other way. It's simply the price she must pay to keep their life together. Josh doesn't realize that Beatrice knows about his other life. That's just one of Beatrice's secrets. And now, that truth-along with a deadly host of other secrets from the past-is about to upend their false paradise. When there's an explosion at the local elementary school playground, and a two-year-old boy is abducted, it doesn't take Beatrice long to make the connection between the missing boy and her husband. It was the son from Josh's other life who was kidnapped, and Josh can't do anything about it without revealing the truth. Helping Josh find his son would destroy the fa ade of her perfect marriage and could put more children's lives in danger. But that's not all. It would reveal her deeper secret- Beatrice Wicker is not who she claims to be.
Praise for Leave the Lights On:
How well can you really know anyone Liv Andersson takes readers on a harrowing journey to the answer in this taut, brilliantly paced psychological thriller full of compelling characters and tight twists that will keep readers turning pages late into the night. I dare you to try and put it down.
LynDee Walker, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Tell No Lies
Andersson weaves together with silky smoothness multiple story lines over the years, and with a surprise at every turn. This new kind of thriller that is psychological, emotional, and chilling bodes well for Anderssons next masterpiece.
John Carenen. award-winning author of Keeping To Himself
Leave the Lights On by Liv Andersson is a wonderful, twisty, and delectably chilling novel that explores how past trauma and choices can come back with a vengeance . . .It kept me guessing and glued to the page right until the satisfying last pages.
Trish Esden, author of the Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery series
Praise for Little Red House:
A rewarding reading experience . . . each wicked development takes the storyline to deeper and darker places.
BOLO Books Review
Liv Anderssons Little Red House is a beautifully woven thriller full of dark and intense characters, secrets and lies, danger around every corner, and a stunning, jaw-dropping twist. This is a story that will creep under your skin and stay with you long after youve read it.
Jennifer Hillier, USA Today bestselling author of Little Secrets and Things We Do In The Dark
An expertly-crafted puzzle box . . . Diabolically twisty with an ending you wont see coming.
Alma Katsu, award winning author of The Fervor and Red Widow
Liv Andersson leads you down dark, twisty roads in Little Red House. A thrilling maze of a story filled with family secrets and a towns shared trauma, Andersson serves a stunningly sinister tale with a flawlessly executed final twist.
Laura Oles, Agatha-nominated author of Daughters of Bad Men
The only thing more twisted than the plot are the characters in this harrowing thriller from a bold new voice in suspense.
Jon McGoran, award-winning author of Drift and Spliced
Liv Andersson is an author, lawyer, and former therapist whose background has inspired her thrillers and mysteries. She and her husband live in the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont with their sons and three dogs.