If She Did It - Softcover

Jessica Treadway

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751555266 ISBN 13: 9780751555264

Publisher: Sphere, 2015

Synopsis

What if you began to suspect your child of an unspeakable crime?

One night changed everything. A father murdered in his bed. A mother beaten almost to death. A daughter who claims she knew nothing about her boyfriend's murderous plans. But is she telling the truth?

Hanna can't remember the details of what happened that traumatic night, she barely survived the brutal assault that left her a widow. However, if she is to keep her husband's killer in jail, she knows she has to try. But Hanna hadn't realised that those memories may cause her to question everything she thought she knew about her daughter...

About this title

About the Author:

A professor of creative writing at Emerson College in Boston, Jessica Treadway's story collection Please Come Back to Me received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was published by University of Georgia Press in 2010. Her other books are the novel And Give You Peace, which was published by Graywolf Press in 2001 and named to Booklist's Top 10 Debut Novels of 2001, and the collection Absent Without Leave (Delphinium Books/Simon & Schuster), which received the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares in 1993. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Five Points, Glimmer Train, AGNI, Shenandoah, and Bellevue Literary Review, among others. Treadway has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of PEN New England, where she served as co-chair of the Freedom to Write Committee. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Review:

"Deftly plotted... Treadway paints a devastating portrait of a family torn apart from both the outside and within."―Publishers Weekly

"An intricately plotted psychological thriller."
―The Chicago Tribune

"Since her debut story collection 'Absent Without Leave,' came out in 1992, Jessica Treadway has wowed critics with resonant depictions of flawed, all-too-human characters."
―The Boston Globe

"Quietly disturbing...nail-bitingly suspenseful."―The Columbus Dispatch

"Complex and nuanced...an author to watch."
―Reviewing the Evidence

"Treadway is a deft hand at crafting complex mysteries...asks provocative questions."―The Reading Nook

About this edition

• Publisher: Sphere
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0751555266
• ISBN 13: 9780751555264
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400