Erin Flanagan es una autora cuyas colecciones de cuentos exploran las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y las vidas interiores de sus personajes. Su prosa se caracteriza por una aguda comprensión de la psique humana y una habilidad para capturar los sutiles matices de la emoción. Las narrativas de Flanagan exploran temas de pérdida, anhelo y la búsqueda de significado en la vida cotidiana. Los lectores aprecian su lenguaje preciso y su perspectiva fresca sobre situaciones familiares.
A teenage girl goes missing. When Hal, an intellectually disabled farmhand, returns from a hunting trip with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight, Alma Costagan and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of.
In this unforgettable psychological thriller, the dark is a terrifying mystery for a woman on the edge. Seven hard-won months into her sobriety, sociology professor Maris Heilman has her first blackout. She chalks it up to exhaustion, though she fears that her husband and daughter will suspect she's drinking again. Whatever their cause, the glitches start becoming more frequent. Sometimes minutes, sometimes longer, but always leaving Maris with the same disorienting question: Where have I been? Then another blackout lands Maris in the ER, where she makes an alarming discovery. A network of women is battling the same inexplicable malady. Is it a bizarre coincidence or something more sinister? What do all the women have in common besides missing time? Or is it who they have in common? In a desperate search for answers, Maris has no idea what's coming next--just the escalating paranoia that her memories may be beyond her control, and that everything she knows could disappear in the blink of an eye.
Two women. An old friendship rekindled. A growing fear. Not everything is as it seems in a dark and twisty novel of suspense by the Edgar Award-winning author of Deer Season. Gwen Maner is a widowed single mom, returning to her Ohio hometown with her daughter. And thanks to former acquaintance Nicola Kimmel, this is the start of Gwen's new and promising life. Nicola's secured Gwen a lucrative job, rented Gwen a house on her same street, and won the heart of Gwen's daughter, but she almost seems too good to be true. She's so selfless. So charismatic. And so take-charge. Gwen is sure Nicola is yearning only for someone to get close to. After all, according to Nicola, her marriage is falling apart, and her best friend just up and left one day. But how well does Gwen really know Nicola? What does Nicola ultimately want? As their lives become more entwined, and Nicola's grip tightens, Gwen begins to think that Nicola isn't helping Gwen and her daughter but vying for control of every aspect of her life. And the consequences may be deadly.