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Mother's Day

by Patricia MacDonald, Patricia Bourgeau · 1994

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In a quiet New England town, the Newhalls live an uneventful life with their adopted daughter. When the child's birth mother is murdered, the first suspect is the adoptive father. The author of The Unforgiven and No Way Home delivers a complex, emotionally intense "family-in-peril" thriller.

Genre
mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisthrillerthrillerMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisMassachusettsMassachusettsMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

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