The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard: A Thriller-Fast Shipping

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A missing child, a small town’s secrets, and a desperate killerset the stage for a darkly wrought debut novel that will haunt readerslong after the last page. Perfect for fans of Julia Heaberlin and ChevyStevens.

It’s not that they’ve been all that closein the past few years, but sisters Willa and Sawyer Stannard are bondedby the ups and downs of the life they’ve lived with their mercurialsingle mother. When Willa is found dead in her apartment from anapparent suicide, Sawyer just knows it’s not possible. A cryptic notefrom the acclaimed broadcast journalist leads police to rule out foulplay. Shattered by grief—and obsessed by the idea that her sister’sdeath was not a suicide—Sawyer plunges into a search for the truth.

WhenSawyer learns that Willa was writing an explosive true crime book aboutthe decades-old disappearance of a toddler that rocked a small townhundreds of miles away, she’s even more convinced that Willa’s death issuspicious. Believing it is somehow connected to the research Willa wasdoing for the book, Sawyer begins to trace her sister’s steps, deep intoa community she can’t begin to understand and to a truth that coulddestroy her as easily as it did Willa.

As she masterfullyratchets up the suspense, Robards never loosens her grip in a debutnovel sure to keep readers guessing—and talking.