Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Kimberly Belle!
Writes:
I write suspenseful stories featuring strong, complex women. Normal, ordinary women like you and me live their lives when thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Like Alex, for example, the Instagram influencer in THE PERSONAL ASSISTANT whose life gets turned upside down when a post goes viral in the worst possible way. But when she calls her assistant AC, she’s vanished. Soon the police declare her missing, and they come looking to Alex and her family for clues.
Yes, The Personal Assistant is suspenseful, but at the heart, it’s a story about a married couple and a husband who’s carrying some pretty big secrets. When Alex’s career starts to crash and burn all around them, her problems shine a spotlight on what her husband has been hiding. How Alex and her husband respond to her getting canceled is a big part of what makes her story so thrilling.
About:
I’m a Southern girl at heart, and it’s something that shines through in my stories. Most of my books are set in Atlanta, where I live for half the year; the other half I spend dodging raindrops in Amsterdam. It’s a strange combination, but since the hubs is Dutch and half our family lives there - including one of our kids - we like to spend as much time as possible there. In practice, we end up chasing the weather - summers in Northern Europe to escape the Atlanta heat, and winters in the US where the temperatures are a lot less frigid. I adore Amsterdam, and one day, I’ll set a story there, too.
My ideal reader is craving books with:
- Strong, complex heroines you can root for
- A villain (or two or three) who deserves what’s coming for them
- Twisty, pulse-pounding plots that keep the pages turning
- Stories with a Southern flair
What to expect if we're compatible:
- Thrillers with a husband and wife at the center
- Lots of secrets and betrayals from people who should know better
- Themes that might make you question your own choices or behavior
- Unpredictable plots laced with dark humor
- Explosive, unexpected endings
A Novel
When Alex first began posting unscripted family moments and motivational messages online, she had no intention of becoming an influencer. Overnight it seemed she’d amassed a huge following, and her hobby became a full-time job—one that was impossible to manage without her sharp-as-a-tack personal assistant, AC.
But all the good-will of her followers turns toxic when one controversial post goes viral in the worst possible way. Alex reaches out to AC for damage control, but her assistant has gone silent. This young woman Alex trusted with all her secrets, who had access to her personal information and front row seats to the pressure points in her marriage and family life, is now missing and the police are looking to Alex and her husband for answers. As Alex digs into AC’s identity – and a woman is found murdered – she’ll find the greatest threat isn’t online, but in her own living room.
Thriller Psychological | Women's Fiction Family Life [Park Row Books, On Sale: November 29, 2022, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780778333258 / eISBN: 9780369720429]
Kimberly Belle is the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of suspenseful novels. Her third novel, The Marriage Lie, was a semifinalist in the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Mystery & Thriller, and a #1 e-book bestseller in the UK and Italy. She's sold rights to her books in a dozen languages as well as film and television options. A graduate of Agnes Scott College, Belle divides her time between Atlanta and Amsterdam.
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