Pieces of Her

What do you do if your beloved mother suddenly turns out to be a stranger to you—and everything you know about her are only fragments from her dark past? Andrea Cooper thinks she knows everything about her mother. Laura has never kept secrets from her: she lives a quiet and happy life in a small Canadian town, works as a speech therapist, and is friends with all the neighbors. At least that’s how Andrea has always known her mother—calm, caring, and cheerful. But everything changes when they are attacked at a café. Laura does something her daughter never could have imagined—she saves her by professionally neutralizing the killer.

Can her mother really be capable of such cold-bloodedness and cruelty? It’s as if she became a completely different person. That’s true. For nearly thirty years, Laura has been hiding from her former self, hiding in the hope that no one would ever find her. And now she’s exposed. Now both of them are in danger, but Laura refuses to talk to her daughter. Andrea will have to unravel the secrets of her mother’s past piece by piece to save them both. And her time is running out… A bright and provocative thriller about destructive secrets that can shatter a familiar life into tiny fragments—and about what we are willing to do for those we love.