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Jamie Day, author of One Big Happy Family

The Precipice is a legendary, family-owned hotel on the rocky coast of Maine. With the recent passing of their father, the Bishop sisters --- Iris, Vicki and Faith --- have come for the weekend to claim it. But with a hurricane looming and each of the Bishop sisters harboring dangerous secrets, there's murder in the air --- and not everyone who checks into the Precipice will be checking out. Each sister wants what is rightfully hers, and in the mix is the Precipe’s 19-year-old chambermaid, Charley Kelley, who is smart, resilient, older than her years and in desperate straits. The arrival of the Bishop sisters could spell disaster for Charley. Will they close the hotel? Fire her? Discover her habit of pilfering from guests? Or, even worse, learn that she's using a guest room to hide a woman on the run?

Week of June 9, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of June 9th include THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON CLUB, Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan, which finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances; JACKIE, a mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from Dawn Tripp, who has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention; Janice Hallett's THE EXAMINER, an innovative page-turner --- told in emails, text messages and essays --- that follows a group of students in an art master’s program that goes dangerously awry; and two paperback originals: JILL IS NOT HAPPY by Kaira Rouda, a twisty and page-turning domestic thriller in which an ill-fated road trip resurrects a married couple's darkest secrets, and Amy Poeppel's FAR AND AWAY, a charming novel about a house swap gone wonderfully awry.