Lisa Scottoline. (2012). Come Home. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Lisa Scottoline. 2012. Come Home. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Lisa Scottoline, Come Home. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2012.

Lisa Scottoline. Come Home. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2012.

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   • bioText: Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels including Look Again, Lady Killer, Think Twice, Save Me and Everywhere That Mary Went. She also writes a weekly column, "Chick Wit," with her daughter Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The columns have been collected in several volumes, including Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog and My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space. Scottoline has won an Edgar® Award and Cosmopolitan magazine's "Fun Fearless Fiction" Award, and she served as the president of Mystery Writers of America. She teaches a course on justice and fiction at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadelphia area.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Save Me, Think Twice and Look Again comes an explosive new novel about a woman faced with the ultimate choice: should she help someone from her past at the expense of her future?

Jill Farrow is a suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce. She loves being a pediatrician and is about to remarry, while her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old. But Jill's life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up and delivers shocking news: Jill's ex-husband is dead. Abby insists that he was murdered-and pleads with Jill to help find his killer. Jill reluctantly agrees to make a few inquiries, and soon discovers that the story doesn't add up...As she digs deeper, her actions threaten to rip apart her new family, destroy their hard-earned happiness, and even endanger her own life. Yet how can Jill turn her back on a child she loves and once called her own? What are the limits of love, loss, and family?

"This thrilling testament to a mother's relentless love may well be Scottoline's best novel to date."-Library Journal (starred review) on Come Home

"Relentless...jaw-dropping."-David Baldacci

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   • source: Jodi Picoult, author of Sing You Home and House Rules on Save Me
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     "You won't be able to put this one down."

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   • source: Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author of Heart of the Matter and Something Borrowed on Save Me
   • content: "Powerful, provocative, and page-turning!"
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews on Save Me
   • content: "A white-hot crossover novel about the perils of mother love . . . Scottoline shifts gears at every curve with the cool efficiency of a NASCAR driver."
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   • source: Sandra Brown, author of Tough Customer on Save Me
   • content: "A novel packed with excitement and emotion, Save Me is a gut-clenching, heart-stirring read."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly on Save Me
   • content: "...a satisfying, nail-biting thriller."
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   • source: Lisa Gardner, author of Live to Tell on Save Me
   • content: "Heart-pounding! Open up Save Me, and save yourself with a great book."
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   • source: Booklist on Save Me
   • content: "Scottoline masterfully fits every detail into a tight plot chock-full of real characters, real issues, and real thrills. A story anchored by the impenetrable power of a mother's love, it begs the question, just how far would you go to save your child?"
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   • source: Louise Penny, author of Bury Your Dead on Save Me

   • content: "Save Me is thrilling and infused with love. Brilliant, I couldn't put it down."
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     January 9, 2012
     Complex family dynamics and carefully concealed secrets drive this gripping stand-alone from Edgar-winner Scottoline (Save Me). Jill Farrow, a Philadelphia pediatrician, and her teenage daughter, Megan, live with Jill’s calm and forbearing fiancé, Sam Becker. When Jill’s estranged 19-year-old ex-stepdaughter, Abby Skyler, rushes into Jill’s home late one rainy night to tell her that her ex-husband, William, is dead, apparently of a drug overdose, Jill can summon little sympathy for the unscrupulous William. When the distraught Abby insists that her father was murdered and that Jill must help her find his killer, Jill is reluctant to get involved, particularly since the police can find no evidence of a crime. As Jill tries to juggle her duties as doctor, mother, and sleuth, her delving into William’s murky past puts emotional strain on Megan and jeopardizes her relationship with Sam. A surfeit of melodrama and some anemic subplots are unlikely to deter the author’s many loyal fans. Author tour. Agent: Molly Friedrich, Friedrich Literary Agency.

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      March 1, 2012
      Another stand-alone suspenser that rams home the point that there's no such thing as an ex-mother. Pharmaceutical rep William Skyler blamed his divorce on his wife, Dr. Jill Farrow. He told his daughters, Victoria and Abby, that Jill had cheated on him and forbade them to keep in touch with her or her own daughter Megan. Now, three years later, William is dead, overdosed on prescription medications Abby is convinced he didn't take himself. What's Jill supposed to do when Abby drives unannounced to the home she shares with diabetes researcher Sam Becker, drunk, weeping hysterically and begging for help? Nothing, maintains Sam, who tells Jill that she's choosing continuing loyalty to Abby (and to Victoria, who makes it witheringly clear at William's funeral that she still wants nothing to do with Jill) over her commitment to him and his son Steven. Nothing, say the Philadelphia police, who insist that William's death was no homicide. Nothing, Jill's penny-pinching medical-practice manager Sheryl Ewing says--or would surely say if Jill, already playing out a losing hand in office politics, ever brought it up to her. Naturally, Jill, protesting, "What's a mother, or a stepmother?...Isn't it forever?," takes it upon herself to investigate anyway. Scottoline backs her increasingly beset supermom ("It wasn't a juggling act, it was a magic act") into sleuthing mode with practiced expertise, giving her exactly the right motivations and qualifications for the specific questions she asks. And there'll be a lump in every throat when Abby disappears and when Jill fights to diagnose a baby who keeps getting ear infections. As usual with Scottoline, though, the complications are a lot more satisfying than the windup, in which reason and plausibility take a back seat to tearful family affirmations. Connoisseurs of mother love imperiled will prefer Save Me (2011). But it would be a mistake to count Scottoline out; she's sure to be back next year with another dose that might be even more potent.

      COPYRIGHT(2012) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      Starred review from February 1, 2012
      

      Pediatrician Jill Farrow lives an ordinary suburban life with her 13-year-old daughter, supportive fiance, and well-fed golden retriever until a midnight visitor turns her idyllic life upside down. Jill's ex-stepdaughter Abby arrives with the news that Jill's ex-husband, William, is dead and she suspects foul play. Despite distaste for her ex and a three-year estrangement from her two stepdaughters, Jill begins investigating William's death to help Abby obtain closure. Fueled by her strong maternal instincts, Abby's quest for the truth propels her into a dangerous cat-and-mouse chase that risks her closest relationships and threatens her life. VERDICT Scottoline (Save Me; Look Again) deftly speeds readers through a dizzying labyrinth of intrigue with more hairpin turns and heart-pounding drops than a theme-park ride. This thrilling testament to a mother's relentless love may well be Scottoline's best novel to date. Her many fans and other mystery/thriller aficionados will want to read it. [300,000-copy first printing; national tour; see Prepub Alert, 10/31/11.]--Mary Todd Chesnut, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights

      Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      February 1, 2012
      Just as in Save Me (2011), Scottoline delivers a satisfying thriller with a family saga at its core. Jill, a pediatrician in her forties, is ready to get the next chapter of her life underway with her medical researcher fianc', Sam, and her wonderful middle-school daughter, Megan. But when she learns of the death of her ex, William, her future is put on hold as she tries to make sense of the past. William was a con man and a user, but during their 10-year marriage, Jill was mother to his two young daughters, Victoria and Abby, and feels an obligation to help them now that they're alone. But when Abby asks for help not only with learning how to run a household but also with proving that her father's death wasn't accidental but murder, Jill gets over her head and risks losing Sam as she pursues Abby's seemingly immature and outlandish leads. While readers may miss Scottoline's hugely popular Rosato and Associates series, this character-driven stand-alone proves equally involving. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Scottoline has been stretching her wings a bit with two stand-alones heavy on domestic drama, but loyal fans of her legal thrillers signed on for Save Me and are likely to do the same this time.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)

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