Hide & seek : a novel

SUMMARY: It was the trial that electrified the world. Not only because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world's heart. Not only because of the victim, Will Shepard, the world's most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two. And because in Maggie's world - the world she feared and despised but could not escape, the world of the powerful, the rich, and the ruthless - both death and life could never be what they seemed. From James Patterson, bestselling author of KISS THE GIRLS and ALONG CAME A SPIDER, comes his most brilliantly realized thriller, a story that will shatter your expectations...and hold every last one of your nerves in thrall, with each twist of the plot and every turn of the page. SUMMARY: It was the trial that electrified the world. Not only because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world's heart. Not only because of the victim, Will Shepard, the world's most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two. And because in Maggie's world - the world she feared and despised but could not escape, the world of the powerful, the rich, and the ruthless - both death and life could never be what they seemed. From James Patterson, bestselling author of KISS THE GIRLS and ALONG CAME A SPIDER, comes his most brilliantly realized thriller, a story that will shatter your expectations...and hold every last one of your nerves in thrall, with each twist of the plot and every turn of the page. Fiction,General,Romance,Mystery & Detective,Crime & mystery,Crime & Thriller,Thrillers,Suspense,Psychological,Mystery fiction,Adventure,Mystery & Detective - General,Mystery,Thriller,Stalking,Fiction - Psychological Suspense,Soccer players,Women singers The heroine is Maggie Bradford who shoots her first husband, an army officer who abused her, and gets away with it. Maggie becomes a singer and songwriter, her fame grows and she falls in love with a soccer star. They marry, it's a big event and everything goes well until Maggie kills him for abusing her daughter. Does Maggie attract dangerous abusers, or is she simply too quick on the trigger? A trial will tell because this time there will be a trial Maggie Bradford, a successful singer-songwriter and loving mother, is accused of murdering her first husband, an abusive stalker, and her second husband, an irresistible monster, and struggles to escape a nightmarish legacy of terror and violence