About this Event
Come hear from bestselling novelist Bonnie Kistler as she talks about her latest thriller, SHELL GAMES, that steps seamlessly into the realm of domestic, psychological suspense. This is a whodunit, whydunit, and a satire of the lives of the rich, famous, and sometimes clueless—in today's Florida. Buy the book and get it signed!
About SHELL GAMES: A NOVEL by Bonnie Kistler
“A truly spectacular psychological thriller with a dazzling mystery at its core. SHELL GAMES is the ultimate one-sitting read that has everything—incredible family dynamics, characters that burst off the page and a premise so deliciously enticing and surprising that the pages quite simply turn themselves. Bonnie Kistler is a genius!”—Matthew Blake, author of ANNA O
A dazzling thriller about a young woman whose fabulously wealthy mother might be the victim of an elaborate con or might be losing her mind—and the daughter can't tell where the truth lies.
Julie’s mother Kate is a force of nature––a glamorous woman of seventy, a self-made real estate developer, a grande dame in Florida society, and a power broker in Florida politics. It wasn’t easy for Julie to grow up in the shadow of such a dynamo, but she loves her mother, and she and her husband Eric are thrilled when Kate marries her long-lost high school sweetheart, a salt-of-the-earth man named Charlie.
But their storybook romance ends abruptly. On their wedding night, Kate calls the police in hysterics to report that Charlie just confessed to a notorious unsolved crime from decades before.
Charlie says she imagined it. Eric says that Kate has dementia. And the FBI says that Charlie couldn’t possibly have committed that crime.
Julie doesn’t know what to believe. Is her brilliant mother losing her mind? Or is sweet, lovable Charlie gaslighting Kate to gain control of her fortune?
As Julie tries to navigate through this maze of paranoia and mind games, cracks start to develop in her own marriage as it seems that Eric is keeping secrets . . .
Set against a backdrop of rampant development and devastating climate change, SHELL GAMES is a psychological thriller that will make your head spin and the pages turn as you wonder exactly who is doing what to whom.
About the Author
Bonnie Kistler is the author of THE CAGE and HER, TOO. A former Philadelphia trial lawyer, she was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She and her husband now live in southwest Florida and the mountains of western North Carolina.
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