EVERYTHING TURNS AWAY

Denise Bukowski: "This has the best writing of any novel of psychological suspense that I have ever seen."

After a dinner party on the night of September 10, 2001, a drunken young couple toddles home in the wee hours. By the time the planes hit the twin towers the following morning, their lives have changed irrevocably. Their teenage babysitter has gone missing, a neighbor has been murdered, and their marriage is almost over.

In this tautly written domestic thriller set in Toronto, Michelle Berry weaves together the story of two couples whose lives are about to be unravelled by the murder of a neighbour, a babysitter who has gone missing and the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center. It is a haunting exploration of marriages and what tears them apart, of what happens to people during shocking events and of how everything can change in an instant. Filled with richly drawn characters, a web of thwarted desires and multiple motives, Everything Turns Away is riveting until the very end.

If you like the work of Shari Lapena, Paula Hawkins, and Gillian Flynn, you will love this book.

Michelle Berry is the author of three books of short stories and five previous novels. Her short story collection I Still Don't Even Know You won the 2011 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book Published by a Manitoba Publisher and was shortlisted for a 2011 ReLit Award, and her novel This Book Will Not Save Your Life won the 2010 Colophon Award and was longlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award. Her writing has been optioned for film and published in the UK.
Berry was a reviewer for the Globe and Mail for many years, and taught online for the University of Toronto. She was also a mentor at Humber College. Berry now lives in Peterborough, ON, where she owns an independent online bookstore, Hunter Street Books.