Stephanie DeCarolis is a USA Today bestselling author of thriller and suspense novels. She is a graduate of Binghamton University and St. John's University School of Law, and currently lives in New York with her husband and their two daughters.
Her new novel is The Wives of Hawthorne Lane.
At CrimeReads DeCarolis tagged five books that take on domestic violence in a realistic and respectful way. One title on the list:
Cul-de-sac, by Joy FieldingRead about the other entries on the list at CrimeReads.
Who doesn’t love a neighborhood thriller where every character has a motive to kill and a gun in their hands? But while this novel was a funand exciting read, it also shed light on some important issues surrounding domestic violence. I thought Fielding did an excellent job of portraying the nuances of domestic abuse in Dani and Nick’s marriage. No one in the neighborhood would suspect Nick, the respected oncologist, to be an abusive husband, but Fielding skillfully depicted the smaller, often overlooked, signs of abuse: The way Nick chipped away at Dani’s self-esteem, how he mocked her accent and belittled her career. Violence is often cyclical, and abuse doesn’t always look like a black eye. Fielding also brings the topic of gun violence, and its correlation to domestic abuse, to the forefront of discussion.
--Marshal Zeringue
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