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“Finding Mrs. Ford not only has a gorgeous cover, but the pages contain a stunning story. Allow me to set this up for you. Two detectives show up at the door of Mrs. Ford's waterfront mansion in Watch Hill, RI. The gentlemen tell Mrs. Ford that they just took an Iranian man into custody at the airport. He told them that he was on his way to talk with her. This book is chock full of hairpin turns. I dare you to put this rollercoaster of a thriller down. The narration on this book is pleasing to the ear.”
— Melinda • Buttonwood Books and Toys
On a sunny summer morning by the sea in New England, Susan Ford’s cocoon of privilege is threatened when an Iraqi man from her distant past boards a plane in Baghdad to come find her.
Mrs. Ford leads a privileged life. From her Blenheim spaniels to her cottage on the coast of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, she carefully curates her world. Hair in place, house in place, life in place, Susan Ford keeps it under control.
Early one morning in the summer of 2014, the past pays a call to collect. The FBI arrives to question her about a man from Iraq—a Chaldean Christian from Mosul—where ISIS has just seized control. Sammy Fakhouri, they say, is his name and they have taken him into custody, picked up on his way to her house.
Back in the summer of 1979, on the outskirts of a declining Detroit, college coed Susan meets charismatic and reckless Annie. They are an unlikely pair of friends, but they each see something in the other—something they’d like to possess. Studious Susan is a moth to the flame that is Annie. Yet, it is dazzling Annie who senses that Susan will be the one who makes it out of Detroit.
Together, the girls navigate the mine fields of a down-market disco where they work their summer jobs. It’s a world filled with pretty girls and powerful men, some of whom—like Sammy Fakhouri—happen to be Iraqi Chaldeans.
What happened in that summer of 1979 when Susan and Annie met? Why is Sammy looking for Susan all these years later? And why is Mrs. Ford lying?
Deborah Goodrich Royce launched her acting career in 1982 in the lead role of Silver Kane on ABC’s All My Children. She went on to star in dozens of feature films, television series, and TV movies. In the 90s, she was the story editor at Miramax Films. Royce serves on the national council of the American Film Institute, the executive board of the Greenwich International Film Festival, the international council of the Preservation Society of Newport, and the governing boards of New York Botanical Garden, the Greenwich Historical Society, and the PRASAD Project.
Saskia Maarleveld is an experienced voice-over actress and Earphones Award–winning narrator. Raised in New Zealand and France, she is highly skilled with accents and dialects, and many of her books have been narrated entirely in accents other than her own. In addition to audiobooks, her voice can be heard in animation, video games, and commercials.
Reviews
“An exquisitely written literary thriller that compels the reader forward right to the last page.”
“Juicy and suspenseful.”
“Tackles big themes of identity, friendship, and loss, spinning out the suspense to the last page.”
“Something about the flashbacks…made it feel sexy and a little dangerous…The story is a fun one, with a nifty twist midway.”
“Unravels the decades-old secret behind an otherwise perfect life…reconciling the person Susan says she is with the girl she used to be.”
“An impressively original, immediately engaging, and thoroughly entertaining novel…Unreservedly recommended.”
“Royce has done a sterling job of incorporating all the things our mothers warned us about.”
“A compelling, well-written thriller with an effective, twisty plot.”
“Entertains as much with imagery as with its masterful plot twists. I couldn’t put it down.”
“Narrator Saskia Maarleveld is outstanding in this absorbing, multilayered listen…Maarleveld seamlessly transitions between time periods and points of view…[and] one can’t stop listening.”
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