Sarah Pekkanen's House of Glass will be the third book nominated for the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards I've read. Honestly, I never expect to have read anything nominated because I'm usually reading more mid-list or older series, but I did quite a bit of reading after being influenced on BookTube, etc. last year, so I was surprised. I already had All the Colors of the Wind and The Return of Ellie Black on my TBR, so I read them prior to voting and then picked up most of the other nominees hoping to get to them in 2025.
From the jacket: Rose Barclay is a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the possible murder of her nanny - in the midst of her parents' bitter divorce - and immediately stopped speaking. Stella Hudson is a best interest attorney, appointed to serve as counsel for children in high-conflict custody cases. She never accepts client under thirteen due to her own traumatic childhood, but Stella's mentor, a revered judge, believes Stella is the only one who can help.
From the moment Stella passes through the iron security gate and steps into the gilded, historic home of the Barclays, she realizes the case is even more twisted, and the Barclay family far more troubled, than she feared. And there's something eerie about the house itself: It's a plastic house, with not a single bit of glass to be found.
As Stella comes closer to uncovering the secrets the Barclays are desperate to hide, danger wraps around her like a shroud, and her past and present are set on a collision course in ways she never expected. Everyone is a suspect in the nanny's murder. The mother, the father, the grandmother, the nanny's boyfriend. Even Rose. Is the person Stella's supposed to protect the one she may need protection from?
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