Nicole Lundrigan's Books

The Substitute

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In the tradition of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, The Substitute is a deliciously creepy psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page. Warren Botts is a disillusioned Ph.D. taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and introverted, Warren befriends thirteen-year-old Amanda, a lonely student looking for guidance. One morning, Warren returns from a jog to find Amanda dead, hanging from a tree in his backyard. A police investigation follows, but Warren is unable — or unwilling — to answer the questions that swirl around him. Suspicions mount, and Warren’s peaceful neighbours quickly become hostile. Meanwhile, an anonymous narrator who possesses a dangerous combination of extreme intelligence and emotional detachment offers insight into events past and present. As the tension builds, we gain an intimate understanding of the power of memories, secrets, and lies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

299

Publisher

House of Anansi

Published Date

ISBN 10

148700236X

ISBN 13

9781487002367

Thaw

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Thaw

By: Nicole Lundrigan

On Christmas Eve, 1898, a young woman gives birth while caught outside in a swirling blizzard. Thaw follows the unsettled life of this child, as she grows into a disquieting presence in tranquil Cupboard Cove. Hazel Boone lives life on its border, moving among familiar strangers, her body driven by temptation and an inner fire. Her self-indulgence creates a shame that percolates down through generations, seizing everyone in its path including her son the painter David Boone and his young apprentice Tilly Gover. Seventy years after her birth, during a winter of constriction, a tragedy repeats itself, and the residents of this small outport re-discover that passion can be as destructive as it is redeeming.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

356

Publisher

Breakwater Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1894377117

ISBN 13

9781894377119

Thaw

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Thaw

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

356

Publisher

Breakwater Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1894377117

ISBN 13

9781894377119

An Unthinkable Thing

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

An Unthinkable Thing

By: Nicole Lundrigan

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL A tragedy brings a young boy into the home of a "perfect" family—one whose dark secrets begin closing in, until a horrifying moment changes everything. Tommie Ware’s life is turned upside down the summer of 1958, just after his eleventh birthday. When his beloved aunt—the woman who raised him—doesn’t return after her shift as a night nurse and is later found murdered, there is only one place left for Tommie to go: “home” to the mother who handed him over the day he was born. All is not as it seems behind the hedgerow surrounding the lavish Henneberry estate where Tommie’s mother, Esther, works as live-in housekeeper. Her employers have agreed he can stay until she “sorts things out,” but as she's at the family’s beck and call around the clock, Tommie is mostly left on his own to navigate the grounds, the massive house, and the twisted family inside. Soon he is enmeshed in the oppressive attentions of matriarch Muriel, who is often heavily medicated, and of fifteen-year-old Martin, who treats Tommie sometimes like a kid brother, sometimes like a pawn in a confusing game. While Dr. Henneberry mostly ignores Tommie, he also seems eager for him to be gone. Then there’s the elderly neighbour, who may know more about the family's past than anyone else will say. By summer's end, the secrets and games tighten around Tommie and his mother, until a horrific crime is discovered and we are faced with an unthinkable question: could an eleven-year-old boy really have committed cold-blooded murder?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

353

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0735242682

ISBN 13

9780735242685

A Man Downstairs

A Novel

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Man Downstairs

A Novel

By: Nicole Lundrigan

What if the childhood you remember isn’t really what happened at all? “A gripping story of troubled relationships, mental illness and buried secrets with a murder at its heart. . . . Clever, twisty and chilling." —Shari Lapena, #1 bestselling author of Everyone Here is Lying From the acclaimed author of An Unthinkable Thing and Hideaway, a breath-stopping novel of suspense about a woman tormented by memories of the past and threatened by long-held secrets in the present. Molly Wynters has moved back to her small hometown to care for her father, recently felled by a stroke and no longer able to communicate. She is ready to make a fresh start with her son after her divorce, but is haunted by both old events and new realities in her childhood home. What Molly recalls of her young life with her father is full of love and care, even though a violent trauma defined her childhood: when she was a young girl, she witnessed her mother’s murder, and her testimony – “There was a man downstairs” – sent a teenager to prison. This tragic episode is still very much alive in the culture of the town, and the more Molly remembers, the more she fears that what she said on the stand all those years ago might not have been the whole truth. After Molly, a trained therapist, volunteers for a local helpline, the threats begin. At first they seem random, but soon Molly realizes that she is a target, and even those closest to her seem suspicious, especially as unsuspected links between them emerge. More than one life was destroyed on that horrific long-ago day, and now someone intends to hold Molly accountable. With its gripping descent into the shadowy corners of the human psyche A Man Downstairs is both an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride and a masterful exploration of the fragile nature of memory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

399

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0735242739

ISBN 13

9780735242739

The Substitute

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Substitute

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

299

Publisher

House of Anansi

Published Date

ISBN 10

148700236X

ISBN 13

9781487002367

Hideaway

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hideaway

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Authentic, disturbing and unbearably tense, Hideaway will leave you reeling." —Shari Lapena, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Couple Next Door Gloria Janes appears to be a doting suburban mother and loving wife. But beyond her canary-yellow door, Gloria controls her husband, Telly, as well as seven-year-old Maisy and her older brother Rowan, through a disorienting cycle of adoration and banishment. When Telly leaves, Gloria turns on Rowan. He runs away, finding unlikely refuge with a homeless man named Carl, with whom he forms the kind of bond he has never found with his parents. After they are menaced by strangers, Rowan follows Carl to an isolated cottage, where he accidentally sets off a burst of heightened paranoia in Carl, and their adventure takes a dark turn. Gloria is publicly desperate for the safe return of her son while privately plotting ever wilder ways to lure Telly home for good. Her behaviour grows more erratic and her manipulation of Maisy begins to seem dedicated toward an outcome that only she can see. The two storylines drive relentlessly toward a climax that is both shocking and emotionally riveting. Suspenseful, unsettling, and masterful, Hideaway explores the secrets of a troubled family and illuminates an unlikely hero and a source of unexpected strength.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

361

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0735237824

ISBN 13

9780735237827

Hideaway

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hideaway

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

361

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0735237824

ISBN 13

9780735237827

Glass Boys

A Novel

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Glass Boys

A Novel

By: Nicole Lundrigan

With vivid and unflinching prose, Nicole Lundrigan has created a riveting and deeply human saga of the persistence of evil and the depths and limits of love. When Roy Trench is killed in a drunken prank gone wrong, his brother Lewis sees blood on the hands of the man responsible: the abusive alcoholic, Eli Fagan. Though the courts rule the death an accident, the event opens a seam of hate between the two families of Knife's Point, Newfoundland. Desperate to smother the painful past with love, Lewis marries Wilda, and the pleasure he takes in their two children -- Melvin and Toby -- recalls the happier days of his childhood with Roy. But as he watches his small family fracture, the darkness of the past begins to cloud the present, leading Lewis back to Eli Fagan -- and his watchful stepson, Garrett Glass. In the style of Newfoundland literature, established by Michael Crummey and Lisa Moore, Glass Boys is the haunting story of an unforgivable crime that brings two families to the brink.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Douglas & McIntyre

Published Date

ISBN 10

1553657985

ISBN 13

9781553657989

The Seary Line

A Novel

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Seary Line

A Novel

By: Nicole Lundrigan

Nearing death, an old man laments his poor choice of a wife, and has orchestrated a situation where he will see his childhood love one last time. From these circumstances emerges Stella, a woman who grapples with her family ghosts as they reach across the generations. "The Seary Line" is a collage of interactions that explores the strength of a bloodline, and the often minute, but significant energies that propel a life forward.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

400

Publisher

Breakwater Books Limited

Published Date

ISBN 10

1550812483

ISBN 13

9781550812480

Book's by Nicole Lundrigan

The Substitute

The Substitute

Thaw

Thaw

Thaw

Thaw

An Unthinkable Thing

An Unthinkable Thing

A Man Downstairs

A Man Downstairs

The Substitute

The Substitute

Hideaway

Hideaway

Hideaway

Hideaway

Glass Boys

Glass Boys

The Seary Line

The Seary Line

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email