title: The Secret Keeper: A Novel
author:  Kate Morton 
description: Australian Mortons (The Distant Hours, 2010) latest will appeal to fans of Daphne du Maurier, Susanna Kearsley, and Audrey Niffenegger with its immensely relatable characters, passion, mystery, and twist ending. Laurel Nicholson is a teenager when she witnesses a shocking crime: her gentle, kind mother, Dorothy, kills a man. It becomes a family secret that Laurel never divulges or tries to fathom until five decades later, when Dorothy is on her deathbed, and Laurel finds a photograph of her mother with an old friend, snapped back in 1941, when Dorothy was barely out of her teens. As Laurel begins to dig, her burning questions become, Who was Vivien Jenkins, and why was she once so important to Dorothy? With the narrative shifting between Laurel, Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy, a man who also profoundly affected Dorothys life long ago, both reader and Laurel breathlessly hurtle into an astounding family secret that unfolds slowly and temptingly. Despite some loose threads and rather too leisurely pacing, this is likely to keep readers reading into the wee hours. --Julie Trevelyan
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  Betrayal
  
  
  A Julian Mercer novel
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  G.K. Parks
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and other
  concepts are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, places, establishments,
  events, and locations is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
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  Copyright © 2016 G.K. Parks
  
  
  A Modus Operandi imprint
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Print ISBN: 1942710046
  
  
  Print ISBN-13: 978-1-942710-04-2
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
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