The Expats

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  • Anthony Award for Best First Novel (2013)
  • Dilys Award Nominee (2013)
  • Edgar Award for Best First Novel (2013)
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The Expats

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ISBN: 9780571279173
Authors: Chris Pavone
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date of Publication: 2012-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Mystery/Crime/Thriller, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.5
(rated by 36821 readers)

Description

The international thriller that Patricia Cornwell says is "bristling with suspense" about an American abroad who finds herself in complex web of intrigue. Can We Ever Escape Our Secrets? Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew. She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesn't speak, doing the housewifely things she's never before done--playdates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, at a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client she's not allowed to know. He's becoming distant and evasive; she's getting lonely and bored. Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they say they are, and she's terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun, a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money, and finally unravels the mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family, her marriage, and her life. Stylish and sophisticated, fiercely intelligent and expertly crafted, "The Expats" proves Chris Pavone to be a writer of tremendous talent. "From the Hardcover edition."
 

  • Anthony Award for Best First Novel (2013)
  • Dilys Award Nominee (2013)
  • Edgar Award for Best First Novel (2013)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.