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Fiction Suspense

Life Penalty

A Novel

by (author) Joy Fielding

Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Initial publish date
Jul 2008
Category
Suspense, Psychological, Women Sleuths
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781400025770
    Publish Date
    Jul 2008
    List Price
    $12.99

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She’s searching for the man who killed her daughter. But will he find her first?
In a novel that grips like a waking nightmare, master storyteller Joy Fielding creates a searing examination of a horrifying crime, the limits of the law, and a woman’s terrifying journey into a killer’s twisted mind. In one tragic afternoon everything changed. Until then, Gail Walton had considered herself lucky. With a successful husband, two daughters, and a house in the New Jersey suburbs, Gail lived a safe and predictable life. Then the unthinkable happened: her six-year-old daughter Cindy was abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered.

Consumed by grief and rage, Gail has retreated into herself. Her family and friends fear she’s losing her grip on reality. The police warn her to let them handle the investigation. But not one of them knows the truth: that Gail has a description of the killer, a plan to set herself up as a decoy, and a room in a run-down boardinghouse. And Gail Walton has just bought herself a gun.…

About the author

Contributor Notes

JOY FIELDING is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The First Time, and other bestselling novels including The Deep End, Whispers and Lies, Puppet and Mad River Road. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach.