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A Novel
by Lisa Jewell
From #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Jewell, an author "at the very top of her game" (Lucy Foley)—three women are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller.
Restauranteur Paddy Swann was the life of the party until the day a man pushed him in the path of an oncoming train, leaving his twenty-something daughter Ash and wife Nina devastated. Shortly after Paddy's funeral, the two women receive a surprise in the mail: a note and package from Nick Radcliffe, an old friend of Paddy's, and a nondescript lighter that once belonged to him decades ago. This unexpected gift draws Nick and Nina closer together—much to Ash's dismay.
Martha is a small-town florist with dreams of expansion. She lives with her second husband Al, her baby, and two sons from her prior marriage. But they never seem to have any money, and with his constant traveling for work, she feels like a single parent—especially when an emergency makes her realize something needs to change.
But Nick and Al may not be who they say they are, leading these three women on a shocking collision course, wishing they had heeded a warning: Don't let him in.
What are you reading this week? (6/26/025)
I just finished The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen - it was good. Another very good one I finished is Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell. Currently I am reading The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas.
-Elizabeth
"Jewell is on a hot streak, with one brilliant thriller after another...As tantalizingly labyrinthine as her stories are, it's the way she anchors them in a recognizably real world, and populates them with abundantly human characters, that makes them so successful. In a genre full of top-flight authors, she ranks very near the absolute top." —Booklist (starred review)
"Jewell effortlessly toggles back and forth in time...setting up a wicket and satisfying cat and mouse game...Readers who like their psychological suspense on the dark side will be delighted with the results." —Publishers Weekly
"Jewell is absolutely a genius at building suspense, but the 'man behaving badly' plot is getting tired." —Kirkus Reviews
"Don't Let Him In masterfully blurs the lines between truth and deception. The tension builds from page one, gripping you until the shocking conclusion!" —Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Don't Let Him In is creepy, twisty, and compulsively readable. It hooked me from the first page and never let me go." —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story
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Lisa Jewell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three novels, including Don't Let Him In, None of This Is True, The Family Upstairs, and Then She Was Gone, as well as Invisible Girl and Watching You. Her novels have sold more than fifteen million copies internationally, and her work has also been translated into over thirty languages.
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