<p><b>"...A compulsively readable tour de force." —<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /><b><i></i></b><br /><b><i>New York Times Book Review</i> recommends M.T. Edvardsson’s <i>A Nearly </i><i>Normal Family</i> and lauds it as a “page-turner†that forces the reader to confront “the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we believe our beloveds expect.†(<i>NYTimes Book Review</i> Summer Reading Issue)</b></p><p><b>M.T. Edvardsson’s </b><i>A Nearly Normal Family</i><b> is a gripping legal thriller that forces the reader to consider: How far would you go to protect the ones you love? In this twisted narrative of love and murder, a horrific crime makes a seemingly normal family question everything they thought they knew about their life—and one another.</b></p><p>Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him?</p><p>Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual three-part structure, <i>A Nearly Normal Family</i> asks the questions: How well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect them?</p>