Join us for a virtual conversation with Kevin O’Brien to celebrate the release of his new book, Everyone A Stranger.
A young war widow is unwittingly drawn into a sinister web of intrigue and murder in this taut thriller set in WWII-era Seattle.
Washington, D.C., 1943: Virginia Abrams believed the war had taken all it could from her when her husband was killed in Guadalcanal. One year later, she’s in a dark, unexpected quandary—pregnant and on the run to avoid a ruthless political family that want to erase all connections between her and the man who raped her.
Changing her name, Virginia moves to Seattle to start over. Against her better instincts, she’s pulled into the lives of her new neighbors in an apartment complex—especially Tim, a young boy whose mother dies suddenly in a fall. Was the woman’s violent death really just an accident? Virginia fears that her whereabouts have been discovered and she was the intended target.
But there are secrets between the residents, too—stormy affairs, mysterious visitors, whispers and rumors. Tim is convinced there are Nazi saboteurs among them, hiding in plain sight. Virginia wants to discount his teenage imagination and her own rising paranoia, yet there’s something menacing here.
Torn between wanting to help the boy and safeguarding her anonymity, Virginia tentatively starts piecing the puzzle together with the help of some neighbors. But now others are dying in an escalating series of “accidents.” No one is entirely who they seem to be. No one can be trusted. And though Virginia doesn’t know it yet, her own life is hanging by the thinnest thread…
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