Format: Hardcover, 354 pages
Release Date: August 6, 2024
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Source: Publisher
Genre: Thriller / Domestic
The past and the present collide in the most unexpected ways in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen's latest thriller, The House of Glass.
Rose Barclay is an 8-year-old girl who witnessed the death of her nanny
—in the midst of her parents' contentious divorce— and immediately
fell into traumatic mutism. Stella Hudson is a Best Interest Attorney,
appointed to serve as counsel for children in custody cases. She never
accepts clients under 13 due to her own traumatic childhood, but
Stella's mentor, a revered judge, believes Stella is the only one who
can help.
From the moment Stella passes through the iron security
gate and steps into the gilded, sprawling D.C. home of the Barclays,
she realizes the case is even more twisted, and the Barclay family far
creepier, than she feared. And there’s something off about the house
itself: its a plastic house, with not a single bit of glass to be found.
As
Stella comes closer to uncovering the secrets the Barclays hold close,
danger wraps around her like a shroud, and her past and present collide
in ways she never expected. Everyone is a suspect in the nanny's murder.
The mother, the father, the grandmother, the nanny’s boyfriend. Even
Rose. Is the person Stella's supposed to protect the one she may need
protection from? From bestselling thriller writer, Sarah Pekkanen, comes
a new, riveting novel filled with buried secrets and page-turning
twists.
Sarah Pekkanen's House of Glass is a psychological thriller focusing on a family named Barclay whose nanny fell to her death at her place of employment, and now it is up to Stella Hudson, a woman whose past is fraught with horrors, to sort what happened. It is up to her to decide whether 9-year-old Rose Barclay is safe with her father, Ian, or mother, Beth, or Grandmother, or if Rose played a role in the nanny's untimely death. Stella is what you call a best interest attorney or guardian ad litem. It is up to Stella to represent the children in any divorce proceedings.
Pulled into this case thanks to her mentor and friend Judge Charles Huxley, Stella is supposed to assess Rose's world and make reports back to the court who will determine who Rose will end up with. But as Stella gets a better look into the home, and Rose's living situation, she notices that Rose seems to be collecting sharp objects. Why? Here is what Stella has been told. Rose, who is 8-years-old, witnessed death of her nanny Tina in the midst of her parents' contentious divorce and immediately fell into traumatic mutism.
It seems as though Ian, the father, had an affair with Tina, and Tina ended up pregnant. Stella normally doesn't accept clients under 13 due to her own traumatic childhood of finding her own mother murdered when she was a child, which also sent her into a phase where she was unable to talk to anyone. From the moment Stella passes through the iron security gate and steps into the gilded, sprawling D.C. home of the Barclays, she realizes the case is even more twisted, and the Barclay family far creepier, than she feared.
And there’s something off about the house itself: its a plastic house, with not a single bit of glass to be found. As Stella comes closer to uncovering the secrets the Barclays hold close, danger wraps around her like a shroud, and her past and present collide in ways she never expected. Everyone is a suspect in the nanny's murder. The mother, the father, the grandmother, the nanny’s boyfriend, and yes, even Rose. Is the person Stella's supposed to protect the one she may need protection from? From bestselling thriller writer, Sarah Pekkanen, comes a new, riveting novel filled with buried secrets and page-turning twists.
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