"‘Locust Lane’ is as perceptive as it is compulsively readable."—The Washington PostFor fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon’s Locust Lane** is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence in a seemingly idyllic town. Can anyone be trusted?On the surface, Emers...

A thought-prooking thriller and a literate page-turner, Stephen Amidon's The New City takes aim at the suburban American dream and captures the real nightmare behind it.It is 1973, the Vietnam War is winding down and the Senate Watergate hearings are heating up. But Newton, Maryland, is a model community, an enclave of harmony and prosperity. Through years of cunning legal maneuvering and smooth real-estate deals, the white lawyer Austin Swope has made the dream of ...

It's the spring of 2001. Drew Hagel has spent the last decade watching things slip away - his marriage, his real estate brokerage, and his beloved daughter, Shannon, now a distant and mysterious high school senior. But, as summer approaches, Drew forms an unexpected friendship with Quint Manning, the manager of a secretive hedge fund. Drew sees the friendship leading to vast, frictionless wealth, but Drew doesn't know that Manning has problems of his own: his Midas touch is abandoning him,...

A security guard in a Massachusetts college town probes a disturbing sexual assault case in this "gripping account of scandal and fear in outer suburbia" ( Financial Times ), the inspiration for the Netflix film."Sly and satiric . . . Peyton Place in the age of terror and Twitter." — The New York Times Book ReviewThere isn't muc...

Stephen Amidon's Human Capital is a gripping novel of new money, old jealousies, and the secret lives of parents and children in the suburbs. Now a major motion picture!It's the spring of 2001. Drew Hagel has spent the last decade watching things slip away—his marriage, his real estate brokerage, and his beloved daughter, Shannon, now a distant and mysterious high school senior. But as summer approaches, Drew forms an unexpected friendship with Quint Mannin...

Everything is neat and peaceful in Stoneleigh. Bad things don't often happen, and when they do, the residents trust the forces of law and order to deal with them efficiently and with minimum fuss. But appearances can be misleading. It takes just one crime - a disturbing allegation of sexual assault - to blast through the veneer of mutual trust, to expose a hotbed of suspicion and paranoia. Suddenly politicians, businessmen, mothers, students and gossips all seem to care less about the trut...

"This is a plot that uncovers many secrets, and Campbell treats them all evenhandedly with no hints that give away the identity of the murderer before the mystery's reveal."- AudioFileFor fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Audible Hall of Fame narrator Cassandra Campbell delivers an electrifying performance of Stephen Amidon's Locust Lane, a taut and utterly propulsive story ...

Emerson ist die perfekte amerikanische Vorstadt - doch der Mord an einer jungen Frau treibt fünf Menschen an den Rand des Abgrunds. Das Ende von Eden ist ein fesselnder Kriminalroman über die Suche nach Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit in einem Geflecht aus Lügen, Geld und Macht. Emerson ist eine wohlhabende und scheinbar idyllische amerikanische Vorstadt. Doch dann wird die junge Eden in einer der schönsten Villen dort tot aufgefunden. Bald stellt sich heraus, dass drei Jugendliche in der Mord-...

Stoneleigh è una piccola città del New England, tranquilla, progressista, dove tutti si conoscono. Ma cosa succede se la figlia di un noto ubriacone arrestato per sospette molestie pedofile denuncia per tentato stupro e violenza privata un ricchissimo newyorkese, possessore della più bella tenuta della zona? Un personaggio estraneo al tessuto sociale del luogo, un vacanziero, ma molto molto potente? La polizia pensa subito che in realtà la ragazza stia cercando di coprire il padre. Qualcun...

Drew Hagel ha trascorso gli ultimi dieci anni guardando la vita sgusciargli fra le dita: un primo matrimonio fallito, la sua attività di immobiliarista che non è mai decollata, la figlia Shannon con cui non è mai riuscito a costruire un rapporto. Finché sopravviene, inaspettata, l'amicizia di un potente finanziere, Quint Manning, che gli offre la possibilità del riscatto. Ma anche Manning ha dei problemi: una moglie delusa, un figlio alcolizzato e un'imminente bancarotta. Quando un terribi...