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Come home

Scottoline, Lisa. (Author).

Summary: A successful pediatrician believes she is finding her balance after a devastating divorce. She's newly engaged and her daughter is happy again after a period of turmoil on losing her stepfather in the divorce. But the relative peace is soon shattered when Jill Ruspoli's ex-stepdaughter arrives on her doorstep and announces that her father has died under suspicious circumstances, Jill is forced to choose between the past and the present, challenging her notions of motherhood and family.

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  • ISBN: 0312380828 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9780312380823 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: 371 p. ; 25 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, c2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Apr 12
Target Audience Note:
All Ages.
Subject: Divorced women -- Fiction
Women physicians -- Fiction
Motherhood -- Fiction
Stepdaughters -- Fiction
Stepmothers -- Fiction
Murder -- Fiction
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Suspense fiction.

Available copies

  • 24 of 24 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 24 total copies.
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  • Baker & Taylor
    Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her--though it is stressful--and her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team. But Jill's life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news: Jill's ex-husband is dead. Abby insists that he was murdered and pleads with Jill to help find his killer. Jill reluctantly agrees to make a few inquiries and discovers that things don't add up. As she digs deeper, her actions threaten to rip apart her new family, destroy their hard-earned happiness, and even endanger her own life. Yet Jill can't turn her back on a child she loves and once called her own. Come Home reads with the breakneck pacing of a thriller while also exploring the definition of motherhood, asking the questions: Do you ever stop being a mother? Can you ever have an ex-child? What are the limits to love of family?
  • Baker & Taylor
    Rebalancing her life and career after a painful divorce, pediatrician Jill learns that her ex has died from an alleged overdose that her former stepdaughter believes was actually murder, a situation that forces Jill to choose between her duty to past circumstances and her future happiness.
  • Baker & Taylor
    Rebalancing her life and career after a painful divorce, pediatrician Jill learns that her ex has died from an alleged overdose that her former stepdaughter believes was actually murder, a situation that forces Jill to choose between her duty to past circumstances and her future happiness. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Save Me. 300,000 first printing.
  • McMillan Palgrave

    Lisa Scottoline has delivered taut thrillers with a powerful emotional wallop in herNew York Times bestsellers Save Me, Think Twice, and Look Again. Now, with her new novel, Come Home, she ratchets up the suspense with the riveting story of a mother who sacrifices her future for a child from her past.

    Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her---though it is stressful---and her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team.

    But Jill's life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news: Jill's ex-husband is dead. Abby insists that he was murdered and pleads with Jill to help find his killer. Jill reluctantly agrees to make a few inquiries and discovers that things don't add up. As she digs deeper, her actions threaten to rip apart her new family, destroy their hard-earned happiness, and even endanger her own life. Yet Jill can't turn her back on a child she loves and once called her own.

    Come Home reads with the breakneck pacing of a thriller while also exploring the definition of motherhood, asking the questions: Do you ever stop being a mother? Can you ever have an ex-child? What are the limits to love of family?


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