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December 2023
On Sale: December 5, 2023
Featuring: Gil; Matthew
304 pages
ISBN: 0593446720
EAN: 9780593446720
Kindle: B0B3J4GCDS
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Mystery | Thriller Domestic
The cleverest psychopaths hide in plain sight.
Gil is living a quiet life as a creative writing professor
in a bucolic Vermont town, when he receives some shocking
news: His sister and her husband have been killed in a car
accident, and their only son is coming to live with him and
his family.
Gil and his wife are
apprehensive about taking in seventeen-year-old Matthew.
Yes, he has just lost both his parents, but they
haven’t seen him in seven years—and the last
time the families were together, Matthew lured their young
daughter into a terrifying, life-threatening situation.
Since that incident, Gil has been estranged from his sister
and her flashy, wealthy banker husband.
Now
Matthew is their charge, living under their roof.
The boy seems charming, smart, and urbane, if
strangely unaffected by his parents’ deaths. Gil hopes
they can put the past behind them, though he’s
surprised when Matthew signs up for his creative writing
class. Then Matthew begins turning in chilling stories about
the imagined deaths of Gil’s family and his own
parents. Bewildered and panicked, Gil ultimately decides he
must take matters into his own hands—before life
imitates art.
Told in limber, mesmerizing
prose, A Flaw in the Design is a twisting novel of
suspense that brilliantly explores the tensions surrounding
class, family, and the drive to control one’s own
story.
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