House of Glass

I really loved this book. Sarah Pekkanen is one of those authors (up there with Liv Constantine and Lisa Jewell) where I pre-order all of her books and get SO excited to read them. Pekkanen (if you are not familiar!) pens twisty thrillers that are really, really hard to put down! Stella Hudson is a best interest attorney at the top of her game; serving as counsel for children in custody cases. Her latest case is like nothing she’s ever seen before. The Barclay family: perfect on the outside, until their young nanny falls from the top floor of their beautiful home. The nine year old daughter now refuses to speak (all the while, collecting sharp objects). It is Stella’s job to figure out what happened. Along the way, memories from her own childhood come up (Stella also suffered from traumatic muteness as a child thanks to an incident in her past). She can tell that the family is lying, covering something up. She just can’t tell what that is. There is no glass in the house; even the windows are plastic. Everyone is a potential suspect. The mother, the father, the grandmother, the nanny’s boyfriend… even Rose. As Stella immerses herself further into the Barclay’s world, she questions her own safety and begins to wonder if her client, the person she’s supposed be protecting, is capable of murder. Like I said: this one was very hard to put down.. it was definitely one of my favorite thrillers of the summer.