Laura Kasischke

• Aug-2025
• / Literary
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AUTHOR OF BESTSELLER, IN A PERFECT WORLDAUTHOR OF THREE BOOKS ADAPTED TO FILM: SUSPICIOUS RIVER, THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES, AND WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARDNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER IN POETRY FOR SPACE, IN CHAINSLaura Kasischke dives back ...

• Mar-2014
• / Psychological Suspense
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The critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Raising returns with a haunting and shadowy thriller about the love between a mother and daughter. Something had followed them from Russia. On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens...

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction
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Fifteen “alarming and gorgeous” stories from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author about the quiet terrors of American life (The Boston Globe).   Laura Kasischke, national bestselling author of The Life Before Her Eyes and Wh...

• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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From Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of In a Perfect World and The Life Before Her Eyes, comes a hypnotic mystery about one girl’s tragic death and the fallout that occurs on her closely-knit college campus. Part Step...

• 2011
• / General Fiction
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"Kasischke's writing does what good poetry does -- it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into another plane of existence, one of facade and reflection."  -- New York Times Book Review "...

• Mar-2010
• / General Fiction
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A novella set in the House of David religious colony that bubbles with mystery, scandal, and little-known history. In 1903, a preacher named Benjamin Purnell and five followers founded a colony called the House of David in Benton Harbor, Michigan, wh...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... It was a fairy tale come true when Mark Dorn--handsome pilot, widower, tragic father of three--chose Jiselle to be his wife. The other flight attendants were jealous: She could quit now, leaving behind the million d...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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Afterward, Terri will tell everyone that, from the beginning, she knew something terrible was going to happen on spring break. Something bad was going to happen. She knew. It was supposed to be the perfect vacation: hot guys, impeccable t...

• Jan-2007
• / Suspense
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On Valentine's Day, Sherry finds an anonymous note in her mailbox: be mine. As the notes continue, Sherry becomes more and more charged by the idea that she can inspire such feelings. Her twenty-year marriage is routine and she feels old, aimless, an...

• Aug-2006
• / Horror
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They were seventeen, with perfect tans and perfect bodies. They planned on a joyride in a convertible on a hot summer day. They planned on skinny-dipping in a beautiful, secluded lake. They planned on making it back to camp before anyone noticed they...

• Nov-2002
• / Suspense
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A "hauntingly original" psychological thriller about innocence, memory, and the effect of a moment of violence (O: The Oprah Magazine). In the girls' bathroom, Diana and her best friend, Maureen, are stealing a moment from the routine drudgery of...

• Jan-1999
• / General Fiction
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I am sixteen when my mother steps out of her skin one frozen January afternoon -- pure self, atoms twinkling like microscopic diamond chips around her perhaps the chiming of a clock, or a few bright flute notes in the distance -- and disappears. No o...

• Apr-1996
• / General Fiction
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"Those who like Joyce Carol Oates will love this" dark novel of psychological suspense by the author of Mind of Winter and The Life Before Her Eyes (Kirkus Reviews).   A married motel receptionist in a bleak Michigan town, Leila Murr...