Hard Girls

Reeks: Jane and Lila Pool

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  • In
  • this
  • "racing,
  • twisty
  • crime
  • novel,"
  • two
  • estranged
  • twin
  • sisters
  • hunt
  • down
  • their
  • elusive
  • mother—and
  • face
  • down
  • the
  • darkness
  • they
  • tried
  • to
  • escape.
  • (Chelsea
  • Bieker)Jane
  • Pool
  • likes
  • her
  • safe,
  • suburban
  • existence
  • just
  • fine.
  • She
  • has
  • a
  • house,
  • a
  • family,
  • (an
  • infuriating
  • mother-in-law,)
  • and
  • a
  • quiet-if-unfulfilling
  • administrative
  • job
  • at
  • the
  • local
  • college.
  • Everything
  • is
  • wonderfully,
  • numbingly
  • normal.
  • Yet
  • Jane
  • remains
  • haunted
  • by
  • her
  • past:
  • her
  • mercurial,
  • absent
  • mother,
  • her
  • parents’
  • secrets,
  • and
  • the
  • act
  • of
  • violence
  • that
  • transformed
  • her
  • life.When
  • her
  • estranged
  • twin,
  • Lila,
  • makes
  • contact,
  • claiming
  • to
  • know
  • where
  • their
  • mother
  • is
  • and
  • why
  • she
  • left
  • all
  • those
  • years
  • ago,
  • Jane
  • agrees
  • to
  • join
  • her,
  • desperate
  • for
  • answers
  • and
  • the
  • chance
  • to
  • reconnect
  • with
  • the
  • only
  • person
  • who
  • really
  • knew
  • her
  • true
  • self.
  • Yet
  • as
  • the
  • hunt
  • becomes
  • treacherous,
  • and
  • pulls
  • the
  • two
  • women
  • to
  • the
  • earth’s
  • distant
  • corners,
  • they
  • find
  • themselves
  • up
  • against
  • their
  • mother’s
  • subterfuge
  • and
  • the
  • darkness
  • that
  • always
  • stalked
  • their
  • family.
  • Now
  • Jane
  • stands
  • to
  • lose
  • the
  • life
  • she’s
  • made
  • for
  • the
  • one
  • that
  • has
  • been
  • impossible
  • to
  • escape.Set
  • in
  • both
  • the
  • Pool
  • family’s
  • past
  • and
  • their
  • present,
  • and
  • melding
  • elements
  • of
  • a
  • chase
  • novel,
  • an
  • espionage
  • thriller,
  • and
  • domestic
  • suspense,
  • Hard
  • Girls
  • is
  • an
  • utterly
  • distinctive
  • pastiche—propulsive,
  • mysterious,
  • cracked,
  • intelligent,
  • and
  • unexpected
  • at
  • every turn.
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