You'll Never Know, Dear: A Novel of Suspense
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An addictive novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning author of Night Night, Sleep Tight, about three generations of women haunted by a little girl's disappearance, and the porcelain doll that may hold the key to the truth . . .
Seven-year-old Lissie Woodham and her four-year-old sister Janey were playing with their porcelain dolls in the front yard when an adorable puppy scampered by. Eager to pet the pretty dog, Lissie chased after the pup as it ran down the street. When she returned to the yard, Janey's precious doll was gone . . . and so was Janey.
Forty years after Janey went missing, Lis—now a mother with a college-age daughter of her own—still blames herself for what happened. Every year on the anniversary of her sister's disappearance, their mother, Miss Sorrel, places a classified ad in the local paper with a picture of the toy Janey had with her that day—a one-of-a-kind porcelain doll—offering a generous cash reward for its return. For years, there's been no response. But this year, the doll came home.
It is the first clue in a decades-old mystery that is about to turn into something far more sinister—endangering Lis and the lives of her mother and daughter as well. Someone knows the truth about what happened all those years ago, and is desperate to keep it hidden.
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Hallie Ephron. (2017). You'll Never Know, Dear: A Novel of Suspense. HarperCollins.
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Hallie Ephron is the New York Times bestselling author of Never Tell a Lie, Come and Find Me, There Was an Old Woman, and Night Night, Sleep Tight. For twelve years she was the crime fiction reviewer for the Boston Globe. The daughter of Hollywood screenwriters, she grew up in Beverly Hills, and lives near Boston, Massachusetts.
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FINALIST FOR THE 2018 MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
An addictive novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning author of Night Night, Sleep Tight, about three generations of women haunted by a little girl's disappearance, and the porcelain doll that may hold the key to the truth . . .
Seven-year-old Lissie Woodham and her four-year-old sister Janey were playing with their porcelain dolls in the front yard when an adorable puppy scampered by. Eager to pet the pretty dog, Lissie chased after the pup as it ran down the street. When she returned to the yard, Janey's precious doll was gone . . . and so was Janey.
Forty years after Janey went missing, Lis—now a mother with a college-age daughter of her own—still blames herself for what happened. Every year on the anniversary of her sister's disappearance, their mother, Miss Sorrel, places a classified ad in the local paper with a picture of the toy Janey had with her that day—a one-of-a-kind porcelain doll—offering a generous cash reward for its return. For years, there's been no response. But this year, the doll came home.
It is the first clue in a decades-old mystery that is about to turn into something far more sinister—endangering Lis and the lives of her mother and daughter as well. Someone knows the truth about what happened all those years ago, and is desperate to keep it hidden.
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"The story line in "You'll Never Know, Dear" unspools with a strong psychological component and a sense of real people involved in relatable situations....An accessible, easy read that deftly integrates the mystery genre with women's fiction, it's made compelling by the depth and resonance of the relationships." — Nickolas Butler, internationally bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs and The Hearts of Men
"The story zigs and then zags, leading the reader to be convinced of someone's innocence, duplicity or guilt and then forced to re-evaluate...After reading "You'll Never Know, Dear," I tracked down 2015's "Night Night, Sleep Tight"....and plan to dive into her other books." — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"[A] character-driven page-turner...[an] engaging portrait of three generations of bickering, bull-headed, but loving women challenged to become their bravest and best selves." — Publishers Weekly
"Hallie Ephron is the queen of secrets—and the star of suburban noir." — Hank Phillippi Ryan, award-winning author of Say No More
Praise for Hallie Ephron: "Ephron's novels are gripping because her characters are just real and nuanced enough to identify with. Ultimately, it's compassion that makes us stay up late reading, and, nose in book, miss our subway stop the next morning." — Boston Globe
"Ephron understands that the fears we inflict upon ourselves can be more crippling than a man with a gun." — Mystery Scene
"Would have been a great vehicle for Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, including all the slightly creepy dolls." — Kirkus Reviews
"Strong characters and vivid sense of place." — Booklist
"I LOVED this book! Great characters, great sense of place, great suspense. And the doll-making background was fascinating." — Deborah Crombie, New York Times best selling author of Garden of Lamentations
"A poignant portrayal of how tragedies often have a trickle-down effect...Though Ephron's work is often classified as women's fiction, it should appeal to anybody who enjoys intelligent, stylistic suspense. After all, questions of family, fidelity, and forgiveness are universal." — CriminalElement.com
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In this character-driven page-turner from Ephron (Night Night, Sleep Tight), Lis Woodman was seven years old when her four-year-old sister, Janey Woodham, disappeared from their yard in sleepy Bonsecours, S.C. Decades later, what could be the first significant clue finally surfaces—in the form of Janey’s look-alike handmade doll that vanished along with her, one of the first of the highly prized creations that would turn the home workshop of the girls’ mother, known as Miss Sorrel, into a collectors’ mecca. Just hours after the doll’s arrival, the workshop explodes, and most of Miss Sorrel’s doll collection is stolen. With local law enforcement none too interested in investigating, it falls to Lis and her grown daughter, Vanessa, a grad student researching sleep, to hunt for answers—if they dare. Ephron overcomes some plot issues—the story starts slowly and several big surprises in the home stretch prove less than plausible—with her engaging portrait of three generations of bickering, bull-headed, but loving women challenged to become their bravest and best selves. Agent: Gail Hochman, Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents.
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May 15, 2017
The return of a handmade porcelain doll that belonged to a child kidnapped 40 years ago kicks off a series of dark revelations.Ephron's latest (There Was an Old Woman, 2013, etc.) follows three generations of small-town South Carolina women through the unraveling of a buried truth. Sorrel Woodham, called Miss Sorrel by one and all, is a serious amateur doll maker and doll collector. Her best friend and partner in these pursuits is her bossy, gossipy next-door neighbor Evelyn Dumont. Way back when both women's husbands were still around, Miss Sorrel had two daughters, Lis and Janey. Then 4-year-old Janey was taken from the front yard where the girls were playing, and Lis, now 46, has been living with the guilt all this time. The pressure of the combined anxiety of her grandmother and mother have driven Lis' daughter, Vanessa, to pursue her postdoc in dream research far away in Providence, Rhode Island. "Hope of finding out what happened to Janey had long ago faded," yet Miss Sorrell still serves Janey's favorite banana pudding every year on "Remembering Day," the anniversary of her disappearance, and runs an ad in the local paper offering a reward for the doll Janey was carrying when she was taken. The reward started at $100 but has since been adjusted for inflation to $5,000. As the book opens, a woman in tight jeans and a junky car shows up with what may well be the doll, but she is spooked by Miss Sorrel's intense reaction and beats it out of there without the reward. Shortly after that, Miss Sorrel's kiln, used for baking doll heads, explodes. At this point, young Vanessa really has to come home and help out; interestingly, her dream research will come into play. Diverting, if a little too easy to figure out. Would have been a great vehicle for Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, including all the slightly creepy dolls.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Forty years after four-year-old Janey Woodham disappeared from her yard, clutching the unique portrait doll made by her mother, Sorrel, resolution may be in sight. Each year Miss Sorrel, as she is known, offers a $5,000 reward for the return of Janey's doll, and this year a tattered doll with a damaged porcelain face is brought to Sorrel, provoking amateur detective work and DNA tests. Lis Woodham, three years older than Janey, is now divorced with a grown daughter, living with her mother, and still feeling responsible for her sister's disappearance, which occurred when she was distracted by a cute puppy passing by. But wait: years after Janey disappeared, another little girl went missing from her yard in the same South Carolina town. Guilt, betrayal, and vengeance, all simmering for years, come to a head as secrets are revealed. The creepy jacket illustration seems to promise more suspense than is delivered, and, in fact, this may appeal more to readers of women's fiction than to mainstream mystery fans. Still, with its strong characters and vivid sense of place, the novel should draw from both camps.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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Lissie was only seven when little sister Janey and an extraspecial porcelain doll vanished from their front yard, and 40 years later she still blames herself. No one has ever responded to an ad their mother places yearly on the anniversary of Janey's disappearance, but now the doll has come to light. All of Ephron's novels have been short-listed for the Mary Higgins Clark Award; with a 35,000-copy first printing.
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Seven-year-old Lissie Woodham and her four-year-old sister Janey were playing with their porcelain dolls in the front yard when an adorable puppy scampered by. Eager to pet the pretty dog, Lissie chased after the pup as it ran down the street. When she returned to the yard, Janey's precious doll was gone . . . and so was Janey.
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