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The block party, novel, Jamie Day

eng

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fiction

The block party

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1382830115

Jamie Day

novel

On the night of the annual summer block party, the Meadowbrook community Facebook page lights up with posts reporting sirens descending on the desirable and exclusive cul-de-sac neighborhood on Alton Road. Bit by bit, the comments trickle in, some taking pleasure in their neighbors' misfortune and others showing concern. The truth eventually comes out. It's not an accident, or a drowning, or a fire, as some had predicted. For the first time in 40 years, there's been a murder in Meadowbrook. The residents of Alton Road, the Fox family, the core of the neighborhood but each with secrets of their own; the Adair family, the seemingly perfect all-American family; the Thompson family, on the brink of an explosive divorce; the Kumars, the mysterious 'new neighbors'; Brooke Bailey, the 'black widow'; and Gus Fisher, the quirky salesman, are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal unbeknownst to the outside world and even each other

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