Half Moon Bay

By: Alice LaPlante

ISBN: 1501190881

Publisher: Scribner

Publication Date: 7/10/2018

Format: Hardcover

My Rating: 3.5 Stars
 
 A smart, haunting tale of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind.
 
 Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed in a senseless accident. Jane is devastated, but sometime later, she makes one tiny stab at a new life: she moves from San Francisco to the tiny seaside town of Half Moon Bay. She is inconsolable, and yet, as the months go by, she is able to cobble together some version of a job, of friends, of the possibility of peace.

And then, children begin to disappear. And soon, Jane sees her own pain reflected in all the parents in the town. She wonders if she will be able to live through the aching loss, the fear all around her. But as the disappearances continue, she begins to see that what her neighbors are wondering is if it is Jane herself who has unleashed the horror of loss.

Half Moon Bay is a chilling story about a mother haunted by her past. As Stewart O’Nan said about Turn of Mind—this novel “blindfolds the reader and spins her around.”

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A “brooding suspense novel…dark, starkly beautiful…LaPlante uses a seductively dangerous landscape to mirror her heroine’s inner life.”

—Kirkus

“This well-crafted novel of psychological suspense will appeal as much to mainstream fiction readers as genre fans.”

—Publishers Weekly

Alice LaPlante is an award-winning journalist whose bestselling books include Half Moon Bay, A Circle of Wives, Method and Madness—The Making of a Story, and the New York Times bestseller Turn of Mind. She taught creative writing at Stanford University where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. Read More