Author of Jenny Cooper Has a Secret
Internationally bestselling author and master of suspense Joy Fielding discusses her latest book, Jenny Cooper Has a Secret, with culture writer and broadcaster Alicia Cox Thomson. A riveting psychological thriller, Jenny Cooper Has a Secret tells the story of a dementia patient who reveals a deadly secret—and one woman who must decide whether to believe her.
Eager to escape the tension at home, seventy-six-year-old Linda Davidson goes to visit her friend at Legacy Place, a memory care facility for the elderly, where she meets Jenny Cooper, a ninety-two-year-old dementia patient who makes a shocking confession: she kills people.
Linda dismisses the so-called secret as the confusion of an ailing mind, but Jenny seems strangely lucid during their visits as she recounts stories of her many victims—mostly men who hurt her. Then a fellow patient at Legacy Place dies. Everyone else sees it as the natural death of a sick old man, but Linda can’t help but wonder: is there any chance Jenny’s telling the truth?
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Joy Fielding is an internationally bestselling author of Someone Is Watching, Now You See Her, Still Life, Mad River Road, See Jane Run, and other acclaimed novels. She earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Toronto and briefly pursued acting before turning to writing full-time in 1972. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida.
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Alicia Cox Thomson has been working in the media industry for over 20 years. Today, she writes about culture, design, business, style and more for the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine and the CBC. You can also find her on-air as a columnist for CBC Radio's The Next Chapter championing her favourite books.
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