Fashionable fiction by women about women.
“The Drowning Woman” follows two woman: newly homeless Lee Gulliver and rich housewife Hazel Laval. The first of the book’s four parts is told from Lee’s perspective alternating with Hazel’s. Lee is barely surviving by working under the table at a rundown diner and taking showers at random gyms around town. She lives in her…
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When a line is crossed, sometimes the only course of action is revenge. Women are often the victims of bullying, sexual assault, infidelity, and other abuses that go unaddressed by law enforcement and other support systems. When this happens, the survivors have a choice: move on through therapy and self-care or pursue revenge using all…
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Screenwriter Rachel Koller Croft centers her readers in the mind of damaged, insecure and unhappy conwoman Bea in “Stone Cold Fox.” The successful marketer grew up with a mother who never shared authentic emotions or names with her affection-seeking daughter. However, Mother taught Bea how to use her beauty and sexuality to exploit powerful men…
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Three women living in the Upper East Side each raising one child attending The Crofton School become entangled in the apparent disappearance of one’s husband in “No One Needs to Know.” Adding to the intrigue is that the anonymous online discussion board Urban Myth is hacked by a hacktivist group known as Eat the Rich…
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Set over the course of 15 hours, “Daisy Darker” by Alice Feeney follows the titular character’s past and current observations about her family as one by one they meet their ends in nasty ways reflecting their respective vices. Marketed as an interpretation of Agatha Christie’s “And then there were none” mystery novel from 1939, “Daisy…
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