Lisa Unger

The explosive new thriller by the New York Times bestseller, Lisa Unger.

The gripping new novel from New York Times bestselling author of psychological suspense, Lisa Unger.

A shattering thriller about three women, strangers, on a heart-wrenching collision course none of them could have seen coming. Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. On the other side of town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. She's in a dead-end job and is involved with the wrong man; she can feel herself being drawn into darkness, with horrific consequences. With nowhere to go, she finds herself on the run. Without knowing each other, and with lives that couldn't be more different, Kate and Emily head to the same point on the map: Heart Island, an idyllic place in the middle of a lake in the Adirondacks, owned for generations by Birdie Burke's family. The harsh and unyielding Birdie is at one with this island, which has a terrifying history all its own. She, too, has consequences to face. Heartbroken is a tense, mesmerizing novel about the limits of dysfunctional families, of an island haunted by dark memories and restless ghosts, and of the all-too-real demons we must battle. Wonderfully suspenseful, exquisitely crafted, and written with raw, emotional power, this is Lisa Unger at her very best. Praise for Heartbroken "Stellar. . . . Heartbroken should be on everyone's summer to-read list. For best results, read it alone on an island on a dark and stormy night."--USA Today (4 stars) "Heartbroken has all the makings of a high-wire thriller. But it's the twisted psyches of its main characters that really unsettle. . . . Unger expertly shows how quiet betrayals can rupture a life as deeply as an act of violence."--People (3 1/2 stars) "A can't-put-down thriller interlaced with insightful family drama and echoes of Wuthering Heights."--Family Circle "Lisa Unger is one of the few women to first break into the genre of thrillers, then to dominate it."--Minneapolis Star Tribune "Lisa Unger masterfully writes of the joys and frustrations of family life in her latest novel. . . . What makes it] shine is the struggle of multidimensional characters with issues that all of us face but sometimes don't want to acknowledge."--Associated Press

The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies and Fragile returns to The Hollows, delivering a thriller that explores matters of faith, memory, and sacrifice. After giving up his post at the Hollows Police Department, Jones Cooper is at loose ends. He is having trouble facing a horrible event from his past and finding a second act. He's in therapy. Then, on a brisk October morning, he has a visitor. Eloise Montgomery, the psychic who plays a key role in Fragile, comes to him with predictions about his future, some of them dire. Michael Holt, a young man who grew up in The Hollows, has returned looking for answers about his mother, who went missing many years earlier. He has hired local PI Ray Muldune and psychic Eloise Montgomery to help him solve the mystery that has haunted him. What he finds might be his undoing. Fifteen-year-old Willow Graves is exiled to The Hollows from Manhattan when six months earlier she moved to the quiet town with her novelist mother after a bitter divorce. Willow is acting out, spending time with kids that bring out the worst in her. And when things get hard, she has a tendency to run away--a predilection that might lead her to dark places. Set in The Hollows, the backdrop for Fragile, this is the riveting story of lives set on a collision course with devastating consequences. The result is Lisa Unger's most compelling fiction to date.

Fresh from a tour promoting her last case, reclusive true crime writer Lydia Strong receives an anonymous cry for help, begging her to find and protect Tatiana Quinn, and all the other girls in need of rescue. Maybe the plea strikes close to her heart; maybe her investigator's intuition starts buzzing. She takes it on. But this simple case of a missing teenager soon becomes much more. Someone wants Lydia to drop the case, someone powerful, someone anxious enough to engineer the reappearance of one of Lydia's first--and most dangerous--adversaries. Now, in addition to tracing the roots of Tatiana's disappearance on a trail across the country and eventually overseas, Lydia must find the man who wants her dead, his unfinished business from years ago.

Isabel Raine thought she had everything-a successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one ordinary morning, her husband, Marcus, picks up his briefcase, kisses her good-bye, and simply vanishes. That day, all her calls to him go straight to voice mail; the messages she leaves at his office go unreturned, too. Panicking after finally receiving a call from his cell phone in which all she can hear is a man's terrified cry, Isabel calls the police. But they aren't interested. Men leave, they tell her. They leave all the time. Desperate to find her husband, Isabel races to his office. But instead of finding him, she finds herself in the middle of an FBI raid. Hours later, she awakens in the hospital with a severe concussion and a homicide detective by her bedside waiting to question her about Marcus Raine-the real Marcus Raine. Now the only thing Isabel knows for sure is that her husband of five years is gone. Where is he and who is he are questions no one seems able to answer. But Isabel will not rest until she discovers the truth about the man she loves, even if it means risking everything-including her own life. Bestselling author Lisa Unger takes us on a nightmarish journey from bustling, glamorous New York City to the murky, twisted streets of Prague, seeking the answer to one bone-chilling question: What if the man you love, the one sleeping beside you, is a stranger?

In a smart New York apartment, Isabel Raine is having breakfast with her husband. After her tragic childhood she has only ever wanted to be loved. And in Marcus Raine she thought she'd found the man she would be with for ever. But when she says goodbye to him that morning, little does she know that within twenty-four hours he'll have gone missing and life as she has known it for the past five years will be fractured beyond repair. But Isabel's nightmare has only just begun. Desperate to unravel the truth behind the lies, she finds herself thrown into the centre of a violent underworld - one driven by betrayal, corruption, deceit and murder. And it seems no one is safe from those who are determined to make sure that the truth never comes to light...

On the surface, Annie's life in a wealthy Florida suburb is happy. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when the demons of her past resurface. These are demons she can't fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget the violence of her earlier life as Ophelia March and to start over, under Gray's protection, as Annie Powers. Disturbing events--the appearance of a familiar dark figure on the beach, the mysterious murder of her psychologist--trigger confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she must quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future and her daughter. " A] hurricane of a thriller...impossible to extract yourself until the last page." --Entertainment Weekly Today show pick for Top 10 Summer Reads (2008) "Full of twists and turns. A great read for anyone craving some suspense." --John Searles, Cosmopolitan "Black Out is riveting psychological suspense of the first order. If you haven't yet experienced Lisa Unger, what are you waiting for?" --Harlan Coben

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Päd. Soziologie, Note: 1,7, Universität Dortmund, Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Sozialgeschichte, 15 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit werden folgende Fragen behandelt: Wie hat sich die Kindheit und Jugend in den letzten Jahrhunderten verändert, was sind die Ursachen dafür, wie sind die Begriffe "Kindeheit" und "Jugend" überhaupt entstanden und was haben sie heute für einen Wert in unserer Gesellschaft? Insgesamt geht es in dieser Hausarbeit um den Vergleich von früher und heute - das heißt, welche Entwicklungen und Wandlungsprozesse haben stattgefunden - vor allem in Bezug auf Familie und Gesellschaft. Zentral geht es um die Frage, was man damals unter den Begriffen "Kindheit" und "Jugend" verstand und wie sich dies bis zum heutigen Zeitpunkt geändert hat. Um dies ergründen zu können, muss die Sozialitäts- und Mentalitätsgeschichte der Menschheit näher betrachtet werden. Das bedeutet konkret, dass zum einen soziale Beziehungen innerhalb der Familie und der Gesellschaft untersucht werden; und zum anderen geht es um den Einstellungswandel gegenüber Kindern bzw. Jugendlichen und ihren Lebensbedingungen.