House of Glass

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

336 Pages

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Release Date: August 6, 2024

Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers, Legal, Mutism

Stella is an attorney assigned as a child advocate in a divorce case. Her young client is nine-year-old Rose Barclay. She has been mute since she saw the death of her nanny, Tina, after falling from a third story window. Her parents, Ian and Beth, argue a lot and Ian’s mother, Harriett, has been living with them after an unsuccessful knee surgery. Stella is conflicted. Everything points to Rose being responsible for Tina’s death. Stella noticed all the glass in the house being replaced with plastic. Was it because Rose was collecting shards of broken glass as weapons. Who could be the next victim? Is Stella getting too close for comfort?

The book has a steady pace, the characters are developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. Excellent writing style with suspense. I was hooked right from the beginning. If you like mysteries, you will enjoy this one.