Fragile
Subtitle: a novel
By: Lisa Unger
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Broadway Paperbacks
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780307394002
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Fiction; Missing persons; Married people; Secrecy; Family secrets
Description: Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. As a child, Maggie found living under the microscope of small-town life stifling. But as a wife and mother, she has happily returned to The Hollows' insular embrace. As a psychologist, her knowledge of family histories provides powerful insights into her patients' lives. So when the girlfriend of her teenage son, Rick, disappears, Maggie's intuitive gift proves useful to the case--and also dangerous. Eerie parallels soon emerge between Charlene's disappearance and the abduction of another local girl that shook the community years ago when Maggie was a teenager. The investigation has her husband, Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely. Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn. In a town where the past is always present, nobody is above suspicion, not even a son in the eyes of his father.
Notes: "Published in the United States by Broadway Paperbacks, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York." --T.p. verso.

Contains an excerpt from the forthcoming book 'Darkness, my old friend' by Lisa Unger (p. [331]-340).