Proper Channels

Proper Channels

By:

Brian Schwind

Promo Price:

$3.99

Ally moved to Pleasant Valley in August with her husband Frankie, a fish spatula she's replaced twice but can't throw away, and the occupational habit, built over fifteen years as a school counselor, of noticing what people are careful not to say.

This is the kind of neighborhood where the sprinklers run on schedule and the welcome basket comes with a handwritten note. It is a place where the HOA president, Kyle Henderson, stops by in your first week to make sure everything is going smoothly. Where the lawns are so even they look like they've been warned.

Ally finds it pleasant. She also finds something slightly wrong about it. Not one big thing. Several small ones, the kind that keep arranging themselves into the same shape no matter how she looks at them.

Proper Channels is a slow-burn literary thriller about a woman who decides to follow the rules more carefully than the man who wrote them. It doesn't move fast. It moves right.

Readers of Tana French will recognize the patience. Readers of Tom Perrotta will recognize the neighborhood.

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