On a Quiet Street
On a Quiet Street
Synopsis
Brighton Hills looks like the safest place on the Oregon coast: big houses under the firs, lawns running down to the lake. Paige has not recovered from the hit-and-run that killed her son, and she has begun watching her neighbours, convinced his death was no accident.
Cora believes her husband Finn is unfaithful and wants proof. Their two obsessions converge, while across the street Georgia — a young mother who never leaves her house — grows stranger by the day, her husband insisting she is unwell.
Told in alternating chapters from all three women, On a Quiet Street is a domestic thriller about surveillance, grief, and how much a neighbourhood will not see. It was nominated for an Edgar Award.
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Characters
PaigeProtagonist
A mother whose son died in a hit-and-run; she starts spying on the neighbourhood for answers.
CoraProtagonist
A neighbour convinced her husband is cheating, who recruits Paige to help prove it.
GeorgiaProtagonist
A reclusive young mother across the street whose husband says she is mentally ill.
FinnSupporting
Cora's husband, the object of her suspicion.
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On a Quiet StreetKindle, 2022
299 pages
Graydon HouseISBN: 9780369717054
