About the Book
Laura Lippman meets Megan Abbott in this suspenseful literary debut about three generations of neighbors whose lives intersect in the aftermath of a crime.
Bernard White is a curmudgeonly widower who has lived in Seven Springs, Florida for decades and has kept to himself since his wife passed. When his neighbor is murdered, he emerges from his solitude to reconnect with his fellow octogenarians. These connections become a literal lifeline as a second, and then a third, elderly woman is murdered, and "the originals," as they call themselves, realize that they are being targeted.
Amy Unger is an artist and cancer survivor whose emotional recovery has not been as successful as her physical one. After the woman next door is murdered, she begins to paint imagined scenes from the murder in an effort to cope with her own loss. But when her paintings prove to be too realistic, her neighbors grow suspicious, and she soon finds herself in the crosshairs of the police.
And then there's Maddie Lowe, a teenage waitress whose mother recently abandoned the family. As Maddie struggles to keep her family together and maintain the appearance of normal teenage life, she finds herself drawn to the man the police say is the killer.
As they navigate their increasingly dangerous and tumultuous worlds, Bernard, Amy, and Maddie begin to uncover the connections between them, and the past and present, in a novel that ultimately proves the power of tragedy to spark renewal.
About the Author :
Lauren Doyle Owens is a Florida-based writer and reader. The Other Side of Everything is her first novel.
Lisa Flanagan is an award-winning audiobook narrator, voice actor, director, improviser, and classical soprano based in New York City. Her voice-over work includes animation, video games, and commercials. Lisa has received multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Voice Arts Awards, including Best Audiobook Narration, Children's for Disney-Pixar's WALL-E. Katie Schorr is a narrator and actor and writer in New York. Her one-woman show, Take Me. Seriously, ran for six months at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and she performs throughout New York.
Jack de Golia is "the voice of character." He's a veteran stage actor and public relations professional. Jack brings depth, warmth, and a wide range of character voicing to his audiobook narrations. He's a skilled character actor, with accomplished accents in High (RP) British English, Russian, Spanish, Texan, German, Southern, New York, and rural Western American English, among many others. Jack has pleased voice-over clients with commercials, video games, and e-learning work in addition to narrating over 110 audiobooks. Jack won AudioFile magazine's Earphones Award in 2018. He was also a 2018 nominee for best mystery narration by the Society of Voice Arts & Sciences. In 2015, he also earned the special designation of "Audible Approved Producer" for the quality of his audiobook work. A number of his books have been given very positive reviews in AudioFile magazine, Audiobook Reviewer, and reviewer blogs. Jack holds a BA in dramatic art, and graduated with High Honors from the University of California, Davis. He's a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He worked for over thirty-five years as a park ranger and later, a public information officer, for federal land management agencies in national parks, national forests, and other public lands in the West, as well as during wildfire emergencies nationwide. His work took him to national parks like Yellowstone, desert public lands in Arizona, and a national forest in Montana. Jack has two grown sons and a grandchild. Jack and his wife, a geoscience professor at UNLV, live in Henderson, Nevada.
Review :
"A first-rate murder mystery."
-- "People"
"A literary thriller with everything book groups are looking for: fine writing, a flawlessly constructed story, and relatable characters providing plenty of questionable decisions rife for discussion."
-- "Booklist"
"A tantalizing literary thriller you'll want to finish in one sitting."
-- "Bustle"
"Owens' tense, rich debut follows the wide-ranging consequences of a brutal murder...A slow-burning thriller that explores the cost of love turned askew."
-- "Kirkus Reviews"
