...A compulsively readable tour de force. --The Wall Street
Journal
New York Times Book Review* recommends M.T. Edvardsson's A Nearly
Normal Family and lauds it as a "page-turner" that forces the reader
to confront "the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we
believe our beloveds expect." (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading
Issue)**
M.T. Edvardsson's A Nearly Normal Family is a gripping legal
thriller that forces the reader to consider: How far would you go to
protect the ones you love? In this twisted narrative of love and murder,
a horrific crime makes a seemingly normal family question everything
they thought they knew about their life--and one another.
Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of
a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from
an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady
businessman, let alone to kill him?
Stella's father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find
their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while
struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual
three-part structure, A Nearly Normal Family asks the questions: How
well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect
them?
