Chris Bohjalian

When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She takes their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is that the entertainmenttwo scared young women brought there by forcewill kill their captors and drive off into the night.With their house now a crime scene, Kristin's and Richards life spirals into nightmare. Kristin is unable to forgive her husband for his lapses in judgement, or for the moment he shared with a dark-haired girl in the guest room. But for the dark-haired girl, Alexandra, the danger is just beginning.

On an icy winter night in an isolated house in rural Vermont, a seasoned midwife named Sibyl Danforth takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency caesarean section on a mother she believes has died of a stroke. But what if Sibyl's patient wasn't dead - and Sibyl inadvertently killed her? As Sibyl faces the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do.

'There' says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, when she come up out of the water after her baptism. Just a few short hours later, Alice is dead, shot by her abusive husband who turned the gun on himself soon after. Tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, Reverend Drew feels his faith in God slipping away as he tries to unearth the truth behind Alice's death. Only new arrival Heather Laurent -- the enigmatic author of wildly successful books about angels -- seems able to save him from slipping into the depths of despair. Heather has her own story. She survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen. But then the state's attorney begins to suspect that Alice's husband may not have killed himself . . . and finds out that Alice had secrets only her minister knew. Related through the eyes of four different narrators, Secrets of Eden is both a haunting thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives. Once again, Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems.

A "Washington Post," "St. Louis Post-Dispatch," and "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" Best Book of the Year Emily Shepard is on the run; the nuclear plant where her father worked has suffered a cataclysmic meltdown, and all fingers point to him. Now, orphaned, homeless, and certain that she's a pariah, Emily's taken to hiding out on the frigid streets of Burlington, Vermont, creating a new identity inspired by her favorite poet, Emily Dickinson. Then she meets Cameron. Nine years old and with a string of foster families behind him, he sparks something in Emily, and she protects him with a fierceness she didn't know she possessed. But when an emergency threatens the fledgling home she's created, Emily realizes that she can't hide forever.

Throughout his career, Chris Bohjalian has earned a reputation for writing novels that examine some of the most important issues of our time. With Midwives, he explored the literal and metaphoric place of birth in our culture. In The Buffalo Soldier, he introduced us to one of contemporary literature's most beloved foster children. And in Before You Know Kindness, he plumbed animal rights, gun control, and what it means to be a parent. Chris Bohjalian's riveting fiction keeps us awake deep into the night. As The New York Times has said, "Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian's grace and power." Now he is back with an ambitious new novel that travels between Jay Gatsby's Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century. When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont's back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won't let anyone see. When Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel discovers that he was telling the truth: before he was homeless, Bobbie Crocker was a successful photographer who had indeed worked with such legends as Chuck Berry, Robert Frost, and Eartha Kitt. As Laurel's fascination with Bobbie's former life begins to merge into obsession, she becomes convinced that some of his photographs reveal a deeply hidden, dark family secret. Her search for the truth will lead her further from her old life -- and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her. In this spellbinding literary thriller, rich with complex and compelling characters -- including Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan -- Chris Bohjalian takes readers on his most intriguing, most haunting, and most unforgettable journey yet.

Mientras Laurel Estabrook practica ciclismo en una carretera solitaria, sufre el ataque de unos hombres que tratan de violarla, pero, por suerte, consigue aferrarse a su bicicleta y salvarse de milagro. Sin embargo, el choque emocional es muy fuerte y a Laurel le cuesta recuperarse, por lo que empieza a trabajar en la entidad gubernamental BEDS, dedicada a buscar alojamiento a los sin techo. Cuando parece que su trabajo puede ayudarle a encauzar su vida, se produce la muerte de uno de los indigentes, Bobbie Croker. Al limpiar la habitacion de Bobbie, aparece una caja llena de fotografias y negativos. Laurel es la encargada de restaurar las fotografias para organizar un homenaje al fallecido y Bobbie Croker resulta ser un fotografo lleno de talento por cuyo trabajo ella se apasiona. Pero la joven hace un descubrimiento que le hiela la sangre: entre las fotografias aparece la de una chica montada en bicicleta y que bien podria ser ella el dia en que fue atacada. Empieza entonces a investigar el pasado de Bobbie y a recrear su historia para olvidar su propia experiencia.

UNA HISTORIA PODEROSA SOBRE CÓMO UNA VIDA ENTERA PUEDE CAMBIAR EN UNA SOLA NOCHE. UNA AUXILIAR DE VUELO SE DESPIERTA EN EL HOTEL EQUIVOCADO, EN LA CAMA EQUIVOCADA, JUNTO A UN DESCONOCIDO. QUE ESTÁ MUERTO, PERO ELLA NO RECUERDA NADA DE LO QUE HA SUCEDIDO.Cassandra Bowden conoce bien las mañanas de resaca. Le gusta tomarse unas copas de vez en cuando y su trabajo en la aerolínea le facilita encontrar nuevas aventuras, así que tener lagunas de memoria parece inevitable; convive con ellas, y también con el sentimiento de culpabilidad que conllevan.Cuando se despierta en la habitación de un hotel de Dubái, intenta reconstruir lo que pasó la noche anterior mientras espera para tomar el transporte que la llevará al aeropuerto. Se desliza fuera de la cama sigilosamente, tratando de no empeorar su ya intenso dolor de cabeza, y observa al hombre con el que ha pasado la noche. Contempla su pelo oscuro, su calma absoluta... y sangre, un charco de sangre todavía húmeda sobre las sábanas blancas. Temerosa de llamar a la policía, Cassie empieza a mentir. Miente al unirse al resto de sus compañeros en la furgoneta; miente durante el vuelo a París, en el que se ocupa de la cabina de clase preferente; miente a los agentes del FBI en Nueva York, que la esperan a su llegada. Pronto será demasiado tarde para confesar la verdad, o para enfrentarse a lo que realmente pasó en Dubái.¿Pudo haberlo matado? Y si no fue ella, ¿quién lo hizo?