Fatal
A Novel
John Lescroart
- John
- Lescroart’s
- latest
- spectacular
- New
- York
- Times
- bestseller
- explores
- the
- unexpected
- and
- shattering
- consequences
- of
- a
- one-night
- stand
- on
- a
- seemingly
- happily
- married
- couple—a
- “dark,
- disturbing,
- satisfying
- read”
- (San
- Francisco
- Chronicle)
- that
- asks
- us
- to
- consider
- how
- much
- we
- really
- know
- about
- the
- lives
- of
- our
- closest
- friends.Fatal
- is
- John
- Lescroart’s
- most
- highly
- acclaimed
- and
- biggest
- selling
- book
- in
- recent
- years.
- As
- the
- Huffington
- Post
- raves,
- “Lescroart
- is
- a
- master
- storyteller
- as
- he
- knows
- how
- to
- craft
- a
- plot
- and
- how
- to
- create
- fully
- developed
- characters.
- In
- both
- of
- these
- departments,
- this
- book
- comes
- across
- as
- one
- of
- his
- best
- works.”When
- Kate
- Jameson
- confesses
- to
- her
- oldest
- friend,
- Beth
- Tully,
- that
- she’s
- obsessing
- about
- a
- married
- man
- she
- just
- met,
- Beth
- is
- alarmed.
- As
- a
- San
- Francisco
- police
- detective,
- Beth
- has
- seen
- time
- and
- again
- the
- destructive
- repercussions
- of
- infidelity.
- But
- Kate,
- despite
- her
- happy
- marriage
- and
- two
- wonderful
- children,
- can’t
- get
- Peter
- Ash
- out
- of
- her
- head
- and
- initiates
- one
- intense
- sexual
- encounter.
- Confident
- that
- her
- life
- can
- now
- return
- to
- normal,
- Kate
- never
- considers
- that
- Peter
- may
- not
- be
- so
- willing
- to
- move
- on.Six
- months
- later,
- Peter
- Ash’s
- body
- washes
- up
- on
- a
- beach,
- and
- Beth
- is
- assigned
- the
- case.
- As
- the
- pool
- of
- suspects
- narrows
- and
- the
- mystery
- of
- who
- Peter
- Ash
- became
- during
- the
- final
- months
- of
- his
- life
- deepens,
- Beth
- is
- forced
- to
- see
- that
- the
- prime
- suspect
- might
- have
- been
- right
- in
- front
- of
- her
- the
- entire
- time.Fatal
- is
- fresh
- proof
- that
- John
- Lescroart
- is
- “a
- true
- master
- of
- the
- craft”
- (Associated
- Press)
- whose
- picture
- should
- be
- “printed
- beside
- the
- definition
- of
- ‘spellbinding’
- in
- the
- dictionary”
- (Suspense Magazine).
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