🏷️ Family Secrets
8 entries tagged with this trope
The House You Pass on the Way
Jacqueline Woodson · 1997
Fourteen-year-old Staggerlee questions her identity and sexuality during a summer that changes everything. A beautiful exploration of adolescence and belonging.
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave · 2021
Hannah's husband disappears, leaving a note: 'Protect her.' Her being his teenage daughter who hates Hannah. Now they're on the run from his past.
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave · 2021
Hannah's husband disappears with a note: 'Protect her.' She must unravel his secrets while earning the trust of his teenage daughter who wants nothing to do with her.
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore · 2024
A girl vanishes from an Adirondack summer camp in 1975. Her brother disappeared from the same woods fourteen years earlier. A sprawling, masterful literary mystery.
Sundial
Catriona Ward · 2022
Rob's daughter might be a psychopath. She takes her to the desert compound where she grew up — a place with its own dark history. Layers upon layers of unreliable narration.
The Sanatorium
Sarah Pearse · 2021
A luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, converted from an old sanatorium. A snowstorm traps the guests. Then someone disappears. Gothic atmosphere meets modern thriller.
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave · 2021
Hannah's husband disappears, leaving only a note: 'Protect her.' 'Her' is his sixteen-year-old daughter who wants nothing to do with Hannah. Unraveling his secrets means questioning everything.
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
A family moves to Alaska in the 1970s to start over. The wilderness is beautiful and deadly. So is Leni's father. A survival story about escaping the monsters inside your own home.