Kimberly Belle. (2022). The Personal Assistant: A Novel. Park Row Books.

Kimberly Belle. 2022. The Personal Assistant: A Novel. Park Row Books.

Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant: A Novel. Park Row Books, 2022.

Kimberly Belle. The Personal Assistant: A Novel. Park Row Books, 2022.

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   • bioText: Kimberly Belle is the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of five novels of suspense. Her third, The Marriage Lie, was a semifinalist in the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Mystery & Thriller, and has been translated into a dozen languages. Before turning to fiction, Kimberly worked in marketing and nonprofit fundraising.
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USA TODAY bestselling author Kimberly Belle returns with a deeply addictive thriller exploring the dark side of the digital world when a mommy-blogger's assistant goes missing.
When Alex first began posting unscripted family moments and motivational messages online, she had no intention of becoming an influencer. Overnight it seemed she'd amassed a huge following, and her hobby became a full-time job—one that was impossible to manage without her sharp-as-a-tack personal assistant, AC.
But all the good-will of her followers turns toxic when one controversial post goes viral in the worst possible way. Alex reaches out to AC for damage control, but her assistant has gone silent. This young woman Alex trusted with all her secrets, who had access to her personal information and front row seats to the pressure points in her marriage and family life, is now missing and the police are looking to Alex and her husband for answers. As Alex digs into AC's identity – and a woman is found murdered – she'll find the greatest threat isn't online, but in her own living room.
Written in alternating perspectives between Alex, her husband, and the mysterious AC, this juicy cat and mouse story will keep you guessing till the very end.

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     June 1, 2022
     

     Following a misjudged post gone nastily viral, popular mommy blogger Alex discovers that The Personal Assistant who knew too much about her has vanished, with USA Today best-selling author Belle shifting perspectives between the two (75,000-copy paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing). In Small Game, a fiction debut from Braverman (Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube), survival instructor Mara lands on a reality TV show with a mixed bag of teammates hoping to win a pile of money by camping out in some undisclosed woodlands but not counting on being stranded (150,000-copy first printing). Slipped into German intelligence by the Soviets (and by Single Spy author Christie), Double Agent Alexsi Smirnoff is captured in 1943 by the British, who recruit him for their own purposes (50,000-copy first printing). In Connelly's Desert Star, LAPD detective Ren�e Ballard rejoins the force to run the newly minted Open-Unsolved Unit, where Harry Bosch volunteers so that he can pursue a psychopath who slaughtered an entire family (750,000-copy first printing). In this follow-up to Graham and Land's The Rising, high school seniors Alex Chin and Samantha Dixon must counter a threat to all humanity, signaled by the ascent of a Blood Moon over the vanished Mayan city of El Mirador (75,000-copy first printing). "Beware of The Couple at the Table nearest to yours" says the note to honeymooners Jane and William, but the tables at their swanky resort are all equidistant--New York Times best-selling Hannah's way of chilling protagonists and readers alike (50,000-copy first printing). Searching for a mountain caribou reportedly spotted in Washington State-- A Ghost of Caribou because this subspecies was thought extinct in the contiguous United States--wildlife biologist Alex Carter instead encounters environmental conflict and a murdered forest ranger; wildlife researcher Henderson follows up A Blizzard of Polar Bears (75,000-copy first printing). Living in the Soviet Union in 1973, above the Arctic Circle--Winterland, indeed--eight-year-old Anya is tapped as a promising gymnast even as she mourns her mother, who vanished after challenging state policies; following Meadows's LJ-starred I Will Send Rain (75,000-copy first printing). Having built a successful life for herself in London after being orphaned as a child in Paris, Amelie marries dashing billionaire Jed--and realizes when she's kidnapped that she feels less like The Prisoner now than she did in her marriage; from the mega-best-selling Paris (200,000-copy first printing). Grandson of action hero Doc Savage, nerdy professor Brandt Savage is pressed into a top-secret training program that re-creates him mentally and physically as The Perfect Assassin; following Patterson's first comic-book hero foray, The Shadow (250,000-copy paperback and 45,000-copy hardcover first printing). In Steadman's latest, emerging novelist Harry husband loves her husband, Edward, but he's one of the Holbecks--filthy rich and dangerous--and though he's tried to be shot of them, the couple is soon dragged into The Family Game. In Unger's Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six, Hannah's rich techie brother is graciously facilitating a weekend getaway for themselves, their spouses, and another couple, but an intrusive rental host, the personal chef's creepy stories, and a sneaking suspicion that someone in the group has a vendetta put a damper on things (150,000-copy first printing).

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     September 15, 2022
     An Instagram influencer living in Atlanta finds herself at the center of a revenge plot--but is it aimed at her or her husband? @UnapologeticallyAlex is many things: She's Alex Hutchinson, 39; mother of twin 12-year-olds Penelope and Gigi; a cheerful, supportive Instagram influencer who's proud of herself, pregnancy stretch marks and all; and wife to Patrick, 46, a "self-made moneyman" and nightly news personality. She is also very, very fake, from her perfect photos to her bleached teeth, false eyelashes, and plastic surgery. The night she hits a million followers on Instagram, she gets extremely drunk with AC, her personal assistant, and her husband has to put AC into an Uber and pour Alex into bed. When she wakes up the next morning, she's unexpectedly gone viral with a post she made while plastered. @UnapologeticallyAlex has done the opposite of what her fans have come to expect: She's called out a 16-year-old celebrity for being a "two-bit whore" with the "brains of a dodo bird." When she starts thinking about damage control, she realizes that AC is missing. And then her life starts to unravel--the death and rape threats against her and her girls begin and then get worse, she is doxxed, and her husband gets more and more evasive as the police look into him in their efforts to find the missing AC. Alex's and Patrick's stories parallel another: Anna Claire is a maid in a divey motel, picked up and delivered to work one day by a rich, sunglasses-clad stranger in a BMW when her car is put out of commission by a flat. He wines and dines her, and she ends up pregnant and laundering money for him--moving enormous amounts of cash through the motel where she works. The stories touch on murder, torture, implied rape, and violent threats without glorifying graphic details. A thoughtfully written, suspenseful story of intertwined lives that draws the reader quickly along to an unexpected ending.

     COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     September 26, 2022
     At the start of this riveting thriller from Belle (My Darling Husband), Alex Hutchinson, an Instagram influencer known to her legion of fans as Unapologetically Alex, is overjoyed when the number of her followers hits one million. In a celebratory mood, she and her personal assistant, AC, whip out the tequila, and one drink leads to too many. The next morning, Alex finds that a vitriolic post denigrating a former Disney star-turned-scandal magnet has been uploaded to her social media platform. While Alex has indeed dissed the former actor in the privacy of her own home, she can’t remember posting these thoughts for all to see. Within minutes, the trolls are out in force, and Alex and her family become the target of death threats. She calls AC to help with damage control, but the young woman has disappeared. As Alex searches for AC, every new piece of information suggests unexpected possibilities that leave readers reexamining what they have accepted as the truth. As Alex says, “perception is reality.” This twisty, multilayered tale should win Belle new fans. Agent: Nikki Terpilowski, Holloway Literary.

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     October 15, 2022
     Alex Hutchinson, aka UnapologeticallyAlex, is an Instagram influencer who just broke a million followers. Her twin 12-year-old daughters don't love that she makes her life so public, but her husband, Patrick, the girls' stepfather, is proud. Then someone posts a controversial video on UnapologeticallyAlex, one of Alex bashing a popular teen actress, and her assistant AC is nowhere to be found. Internet trolls descend, but losing followers is the least of Alex's problems. She is doxxed, fake photos appear online, and a dead body shows up in her carriage house office. The narrative alternates between Alex and Patrick each narrating their troubles and the story of Anna Claire, a motel maid who meets a man who promises to make all her money troubles go away. Soon it becomes clear that AC and Anna Claire are not the same person, leaving readers to wonder what the connection between the two stories is, which Belle (Stranger in the Lake, 2020) reveals in an explosive climax. This taut and twisty domestic thriller will keep readers guessing until the very end.

     COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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When Alex first began posting unscripted family moments and motivational messages online, she had no intention of becoming an influencer. Overnight it seemed she'd amassed a huge following, and her hobby became a full-time job—one that was impossible to manage without her sharp-as-a-tack personal assistant, AC.
But all the good-will of her followers turns toxic when one controversial post goes viral in the worst possible way. Alex reaches out to AC for damage control, but her assistant has gone silent. This young woman Alex trusted with all her secrets, who had access to her personal information and front row seats to the pressure points in her marriage and family life, is now missing and...

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