Perfect Family
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: April 8, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780743291453
Subjects: American Mystery & Suspense Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - Espionage / Thriller; Fiction - General; Literary; Thrillers; Fiction / Thrillers; Mystery & Detective - General; Deception; Family secrets; Rich people
Description: "[W]hen twenty-four-year-old Pony Carteret is found drowned at the Carteret summer house on Lake Aral, her death rips apart the proper New England family and unearths secrets thought long buried by their keepers. As the police conduct their investigation, William Carteret, Pony's older brother, can't accept that his favorite sister's death was an accident. Confronted by holes in the family's carefully maintained tapestry of perfection, William must uncover the circumstances of his sister's death, the truth of his own birth, and a dangerous secret his mother has kep hidden for a generation."--Publisher description (back cover Simon & Schuster Paperbacks ed.).