Raven Lane

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The truth can bring out the worst in the best of friends. Esme and Benedict Werner have an idyllic life in a tight-knit community until an accident in their cul-de-sac ends in the tragic sudden death of one of their dearest neighbors. After vindicating eyewitness accounts morph into contradictory memories, suspicion, and unaccountable accusation

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Peering into the daily lives of the beautiful and talented will provide a thrill for readers Booklist [Raven Lane] sticks to your skin and makes you second guess your assumptions. Pique News Magazine Amber Cowie has written an unputdownable, suburban nightmare, which calls into question all our safe assumptions about what happens on the other side of the picket fence. Raven Lane will linger with you long after the final page. Blake Crouch, bestselling author of Dark Matter Raven Lane is a sexy, provocative thriller about devastating secrets and shocking behavior in one bohemian, suburban enclave. With timely themes and boundary-pushing revelations, Raven Lane starts with a bang and doesnt let up until the final, jaw-dropping twist. Robyn Harding, international bestselling author of Her Pretty Face Beware! Enter the sexy, sordid affairs of Raven Lane with a clear schedule, because you wont be able to put this HOT thriller down. Paired with your favorite vino or tea, youll find the escape into this suspenseful page-turner full of delicious betrayals. Loved it. Clever. Unique. Hot. Devilish fun. Shannon Kirk, international bestselling author of Method 15/33, In the Vines, and Gretchen A fateful accident on an otherwise lovely summer evening opens a veritable menu of lust, lies, and buried secrets for restaurateur Esme, her husband Benedict, and their neighbors. Atmospheric and edgy, Raven Lane serves up a satisfying tale of questionable choices and their unanticipated consequences. Linda Keir, author of The Swing of Things and Drowning With Others Nothing is quite as it seems on idyllic Raven Lane. Inside this carefully curated neighborhood, accomplished artists, writers, and musicians inhabit their beautiful modern homes and each others lives, but something sinister lurks just beneath the surface. A terrible car accident unravels a litany of lies and betrayals as police begin to consider the possibility of a murder. This haunting thriller will keep you reading late into the night! D.M. Pulley, author of The Dead Key and No Ones Home Amber Cowies Raven Lane is the sly, sexy, irresistible tale of a familymake that an entire neighborhoodthat embraces self-deception as a means of daily survival. The result is a page-turning piece of fictional anthropology that illustrates the tragic differences between what we are, what we imagine we are, and what others want us to be. Im sorry that its over. Bryan Gruley, author of Bleak Harbour In Raven Lane Amber Cowie delivers a deliciously discomfiting and compelling domestic suspense told from the intimate third-person point of view of Esme Werner, whose version of events appears increasingly questionable after a terrible accident on a balmy September evening shatters the delicate faade of a privileged neighborhood, revealing a salaciously toxicand deadlytangle of relationships below. For fans of domestic suspense with unreliable narrators, this tale of marriages and parenthood gone wrong hits the right notes. Loreth Anne White, bestselling author of In The Dark Another thought-provoking read from Amber Cowie. Raven Lane is a seemingly tight-knit community of close friends but which is shot through with misconceptions and murderous secrets. Interwoven into the tightly written plot is a book within a book, cleverly reflecting the goings on in Raven Lane. Do we all have a monster within us Keep turning those pages to find out. Imogen Clark, bestselling author of Postcards from a Stranger and Where the Story Starts

Author Bio

Amber Cowie is a graduate of the University of Victoria and was short-listed for the 2017 Whistler Independent Book Awards. She has also served burgers at a frontier-themed diner, hot chocolate at the only ski resort in Scotland, and pints at a bar in downtown Dublin. She planted trees in northern Canada and staffed the front desk of a hotel on a remote island between France and England. She has also been a reporter for a small-town newspaper, in-house writer for a snowmobile magazine, and freelance pattern designer for knitwear companies. Now she is a mother of two, wife of one, reader of many, and the author of the acclaimed debut novel Rapid Falls. She continues to write books that make her browser search history highly suspicious. For more information, visit her at www.ambercowie.com.