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House of Glass

A Novel

by Sarah Pekkanen
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"Wow, I loved this one so much! I didn't want it to be over because I was enjoying it so much, but I couldn't stop turning pages! House of Glass is a gripping thriller that was packed with surprises and compelling characters." — Freida McFadden

The next thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen, House of Glass.

On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie.
A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed? A nine-year-old girl who collects sharp objects and refuses to speak. A lawyer whose job it is to uncover who in the family is a victim and who is a murderer. But how can you find out the truth when everyone here is lying?
Rose Barclay is a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the possible murder of her nanny - in the midst of her parent's bitter divorce - and immediately stopped speaking. Stella Hudson is a best interest attorney, appointed to serve as counsel for children in custody cases. She never accepts clients under thirteen due to her own traumatic childhood, but Stella's mentor, a revered judge, believes Stella is the only one who can help.
From the moment Stella passes through the iron security gate and steps into the gilded, historic DC home of the Barclays, she realizes the case is even more twisted, and the Barclay family far more troubled, than she feared. And there's something eerie about the house itself: It's a plastic house, with not a single bit of glass to be found.
As Stella comes closer to uncovering the secrets the Barclays are desperate to hide, danger wraps around her like a shroud, and her past and present are set on a collision course in ways she never expected. Everyone is a suspect in the nanny's murder. The mother, the father, the grandmother, the nanny's boyfriend. Even Rose. Is the person Stella's supposed to protect the one she may need protection from?

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    August 6, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781250284006

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      • File size: 2785 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      Starred review from July 1, 2024
      Pekkanen, who has coauthored a shiver of psychological suspense novels with Greer Hendricks (including The Golden Couple, 2022, and The Wife between Us, 2018), and who was the solo author of the 2023 shocker Gone Tonight, has concocted a terrifying gothic thriller. Her latest stars a century-old house that has a "Fall of the House of Usher" feel of danger and evil emanating from it--and a very tense family within. The narrator, Stella Hudson, is a lawyer who enters this strange house after a pregnant nanny has fallen to her death from one of the house's windows. Stella has been appointed as a best-interest attorney in a custody battle between the parents for the nanny's charge, a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the nanny's fall. Stella's access to the house and everyone connected to it puts her in the perfect position to determine whether the nanny fell, jumped, or was pushed out the window. Homicide suspects abound, since the father was having an affair with the nanny, the mother and nanny's boyfriend were both jealous and enraged, and even the little girl, mute since the incident, gives off some serious bad-seed vibes. The excellent portrayal of fragile psyches and knife-edge suspense throughout make this a winner.

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    • Library Journal

      July 26, 2024

      In best-selling Pekkanen's (Gone Tonight) latest, eight-year-old Rose, whose parents are in the middle of a contentious divorce, witnesses the death of her nanny. Attorney Stella Hudson is appointed to serve as Rose's representative in the custody case, but she finds a whole house full of secrets--and suspects. With a 150K-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 16, 2024
      Bestseller Pekkanen (Gone Tonight) delivers a tantalizing if somewhat uneven thriller featuring a young girl who stops speaking after witnessing her nanny’s death. Washington, D.C., attorney Stella Hudson, who assesses the homes lives of children involved in custody battles, is assigned to nine-year-old Rose Barclay’s case when the girl’s wealthy parents file for divorce. Stella heads to the family’s estate in Potomac, Md., to conduct the standard interviews, but soon after she arrives, she gets the nagging sense that everyone is hiding something. She finds it particularly disturbing that all of the home’s glass objects have been removed or replaced with plastic replicas. When Stella’s assignment broadens to include an investigation into the death of Rose’s nanny—who fell from an attic window, either by accident or because she was pushed—memories of her own traumatic childhood surface. After a promising setup, Pekkanen takes her foot off the gas, abandoning the central mystery for too long in service of middling character development. Still, she conjures up a tense, quasi-gothic atmosphere, and Stella’s sleuthing is often thrilling. This has its pleasures. Agent: Victoria Sanders, Victoria Sanders & Assoc.

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