{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Pieces of Her","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/pieces-of-her","description":"Now a major Netflix adaptation: The #1 Australian bestseller from the author of The Silent Wife \u0026#39;A novel that sets the standard for psychological thriller writing. Rarely in fiction have the past and the present collided with such force and in such a distinctive and compelling voice\u0026#39; Jeffery Deaver What if the person you thought you knew best turned out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea Oliver\u0026#39;s mother, Laura, is the perfect small-town mum. Laura lives a quiet but happy life in sleepy beachside Belle Isle. She\u0026#39;s a pillar of the community: a speech therapist, business owner and everybody\u0026#39;s friend. And she\u0026#39;s never kept a secret from anyone. Or so Andrea thinks. When Andrea is caught in a random violent attack at a shopping mall, Laura intervenes and acts in a way that is unrecognisable to her daughter. It\u0026#39;s like Laura is a completely different person - and that\u0026#39;s because she was. Thirty years ago. Before Andrea. Before Belle Isle. Laura is hailed as a hero for her actions at the mall but 24 hours later she is in hospital, shot by an intruder, who\u0026#39;s spent decades trying to track her down. What is Andrea\u0026#39;s mother trying to hide? As elements of the past return and put them both in danger, Andrea is left to piece together Laura\u0026#39;s former identity and discover the truth - for better or worse - about her mother. Is the gentle, loving woman who raised her also a violent killer? \u0026#39;A nerve-shredding psychological thriller that will keep readers guessing to the very last page\u0026#39; New York Journal of Books \u0026#39;A frenetic, stay-up-all-night kind of read\u0026#39; Good Reading \u0026#39;Filled with Slaughter\u0026#39;s trademark twists\u0026#39; Entertainment Weekly","author_name":"Karin Slaughter","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/karin-slaughter","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/59527216/7133c7bcd878bc27afd889132b5e86b9dc52f092.jpeg","thumbnail_width":128,"thumbnail_height":198}