An Inconvenient Woman
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In this debut psychological thriller, two women on opposite sides of the law delve into the heart of a years-old crime in order to stop a future one.
Claire Fontaine is convinced that her ex-husband killed their teenage daughter all those years back and believes he's capable of killing again. When she sees him move in with another woman, to play stepfather for a girl the same age as the one she lost, Claire tries desperately to warn the new bride of the danger her family is in. But when the woman dismisses her admonishments, she feels she must take matters into her own hands and stop the crime she failed to stop before.
Sloan Wilson left the LAPD to work as a "sin eater," a contractor for hire who specializes in cleaning up inconvenient situations―situations which, for whatever reason, are better handled outside the law. Like, for example, an ex-wife who stalks her former husband, throws paint on his door, and makes vague, violent threats to his new wife. A domestic dispute like that can get messy when the cops are called; plus, there is a risk that their presence will aggravate the woman in question.
As Sloan investigates her newest mission, however, she finds that there is more to it than meets the eye, uncovering a history of trauma that casts aspersions on the stories of both Claire and Sloan's client. In a case where objective truth is increasingly muddled by passions, suspicions, and fears, she soon loses the ability to distinguish fact from fiction. But Sloan knows one thing for certain: sometimes the only way to prevent a crime is by committing one.
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Stéphanie Buelens. (2020). An Inconvenient Woman. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Stéphanie Buelens. 2020. An Inconvenient Woman. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Stéphanie Buelens, An Inconvenient Woman. Blackstone Publishing, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Stéphanie Buelens. An Inconvenient Woman. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2020.
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Claire Fontaine is convinced that her ex-husband killed their teenage daughter all those years back and believes he's capable of killing again. When she sees him move in with another woman, to play stepfather for a girl the same age as the one she lost, Claire tries desperately to warn the new bride of the danger her family is in. But when the woman dismisses her admonishments, she feels she must take matters into her own hands and stop the crime she failed to stop before.
Sloan Wilson left the LAPD to work as a "sin eater," a contractor for hire who specializes in cleaning up inconvenient situations―situations which, for whatever reason, are better handled outside the law. Like, for example, an ex-wife who stalks her former husband, throws paint on his door, and makes vague, violent threats to his new wife. A domestic dispute like that can get messy when the cops are called; plus, there is a risk that their presence will aggravate the woman in question.
As Sloan investigates her newest mission, however, she finds that there is more to it than meets the eye, uncovering a history of trauma that casts aspersions on the stories of both Claire and Sloan's client. In a case where objective truth is increasingly muddled by passions, suspicions, and fears, she soon loses the ability to distinguish fact from fiction. But Sloan knows one thing for certain: sometimes the only way to prevent a crime is by committing one.
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July 27, 2020
French teacher Claire Fontaine, the unhinged protagonist of Buelens’s pedestrian debut, is convinced that her ex-husband, Simon Miller, a wealthy Beverly Hills lawyer, molested Melody, her daughter by her late first husband, driving the teenager to suicide. Simon claims Melody’s drowning death was an accident. Claire has now made it her mission to stop his upcoming wedding to Charlotte. Claire believes that Simon really is after Charlotte’s daughter, Emma, who’s about the same age as Melody when he first molested the girl. Claire considers more extreme actions after she has no success confronting Simon over the phone or persuading Charlotte, whom she confronts at the jewelry store where Charlotte works, to keep Emma away from Simon. Frustrated by Claire’s antics, Simon hires “sin eater” Sloane Wilson, a former LAPD detective who specializes in cleaning up situations best handled outside the law. A couple of clever twists near the denouement make up only in part for Claire’s wearisome paranoia and characters who elicit little sympathy. Psychological thrillers fans can safely take a pass.
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