Missing Pieces
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Joy Fielding is the author of Don't Cry Now, Tell Me No Secrets, See Jane Run, Good Intentions, The Deep End, Life Penalty, The Other Woman, Kiss Mommy Goodbye, Trance, The Transformation, and The Best of Friends.  A graduate of the University of Toronto, she lives with her family in Toronto and Palm Beach.

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"Fielding knows how to turn the screws of suspense."
--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"Honest, strong narration [drives] this novel of a family in turmoil to its bloody if redeeming resolution."
--Publishers Weekly

"Fielding has made the woman-in-jeopardy genre her own."
--People

"An excellent piece of psychological suspense."
--Toronto Star

"Nightmarish...Fielding turns up the heat."
--Kirkus Reviews

A main selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club

Practical Kate Sinclair, 47, a family therapist married for 24 years and the mother of two teenaged daughters, is losing control of her orderly, settled life. She fights with her rebellious elder daughter, Sara, who's 17. Her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Even her body is betraying her, as hot flashes startle her metabolism. Meanwhile, a chance encounter with an old high-school sweetheart inflames her in a totally different way. Worst of all, though, is the infatuation of her sexy half-sister, Jo Lynn, with a man on trial for the murder of 13 women. Fielding's leisurely paced latest tale (after Don't Cry Now) of psychological suspense, written in no-frills prose and set in Florida's Palm Beach Gardens, follows Kate as she watches in horror her sister's growing involvement with Colin Friendly, sociopath and sexual sadist. Trying to protect her sister in some vague way, Kate accompanies Jo Lynn on her lovestruck daily excursions to court. Though the sisters' relationship strains credulity at times, an unexpected yet believable revelation about Jo Lynn's past explains the self-destructive behavior that has led her through three abusive marriages and into a relationship with a serial killer who eventually targets Kate's family for his particular malice. Prosaic courtroom and therapy scenes and simplistically portrayed secondary figures weigh down the storytelling, but Kates's honest, strong narration is up to the task of driving this novel of a family in turmoil to its bloody if redeeming resolution. 175,000 first printing; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections; author tour. (Aug.)

YA‘Fielding's novelistic version of "Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives" is almost a send-up of topics heard on advice shows. The heroine, a professional family counselor, has the hots for her old high school flame even though she is happily married to a wonderful, caring guy. She refuses to see that her mother is becoming senile and her teenage daughter is rebelling; in addition, her airhead sister marries an imprisoned serial killer to whom she becomes attracted while attending his trial. Once the tabloids move on from this sensational story, Sis helps her killer husband escape from prison only to become his ultimate victim. The desire to wring all of the characters' silly necks is strong, but the author does it first, while at the same time pointing out their motivations for being so foolish. Despite possible disgust with these women's behavior, readers will find that Fielding's writing keeps them turning the pages, and good sense prevails in the end.‘Judy McAloon, Potomac Library, Prince William County, VA

"Fielding knows how to turn the screws of suspense."
--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"Honest, strong narration [drives] this novel of a family in turmoil to its bloody if redeeming resolution."
--Publishers Weekly

"Fielding has made the woman-in-jeopardy genre her own."
--People

"An excellent piece of psychological suspense."
--Toronto Star

"Nightmarish...Fielding turns up the heat."
--Kirkus Reviews

A main selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club

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