Joy Fielding: The Deep End

Joy Fielding: The Deep End (UK 1995)

From the Publisher:
Someone's been calling Joanne Hunter. Someone who knows exactly how she lives. And exactly how she's going to die...
Joanne Hunter's secure suburban world is falling apart. Her husband's desertion after 20 years of marriage leaves her stunned. Eve, her best friend, is strangely distant. Her grandfather, who's been a pillar of strength and support, lies ill and helpless in a nursing home. Lana and Robin, her teenage daughters, claim every ounce of her energy and devotion - and all the love she feels she has lost.

Only one person seems to care a stranger with a rasping voice, a tormentor with a vicious mind. Danger and despair close in with each ring of the telephone. Each deadly message lures her inexorably towards the deep end.

Joy Fielding: The Deep End. Headline Feature, ISBN: 0747246904 (April, 1995), 407 p., £5.99.

Joy Fielding: The Deep End (UK 1987)

Joy Fielding: The Deep End. London: Futura, 1987, ISBN: 0708831249, 368 p., £2.95.

Joy Fielding: The Deep End (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
THE PHONE RANG SHE PICKED IT UP AND A CHILLING VOICE SAID:
"YOU'VE BEEN A BAD GIRL I'M GOING TO TAKE DOWN YOUR PANTIES AND SPANK YOU... AND THEN I'M GOING TO KILL YOU..."

THE DEEP END

"DOMESTIC TERROR... THE TENSION INCREASES WITH EACH PHONE CALL" -- St. Louis Post Dispatch
"CHILLING MASTERFUL SUSPENSE" -- Kansas City Star
A LITERARY GUILD ALTERNATE SELECTION

Joy Fielding: The Deep End. Signet / New American Library, ISBN: 0451148029 (June, 1987), 380 p., $4.50.

Joy Fielding: The Deep End (USA 1986)

From the Publisher:
Joanne Hunter's secure suburban world is flying apart. Her husband of nearly twenty years has walked out. Her best friend Eve, once her Rock of Gibraltar, is strangely distant. And her grandfather, who provides the only parental comfort Joanne has left, lies ill and helpless in a nursing home. Like the unfinished swimming pool in her back yard, its deep end yawning ominously below her bedroom window, Joanne feels hopelessly empty, lost in a void of despair.

And then there are the phone calls. The raspy voice on the other end is neither young nor old, not quite a man's, yet not quite a woman's. At first merely an unsettling annoyance, these calls soon become something more. In her Great Neck, New York, community, three housewives have been brutally murdered, and Joanne fears the killer now may be stalking her. But no one -- not the police, nor Eve, nor her husband -- takes her worries seriously. As she desperately tries to get on with her life -- caring for her two daughters, finding a job, even awkwardly attempting her first date in over twenty years -- the menacing caller persists. And soon all Joanne Hunter can think about is the growing horror that comes with each ring of the telephone, and the disembodied voice that whispers in her ear... "You're next."

As she did in such previous best-sellers as The Other Woman and Kiss Mommy Goodbye, novelist Joy Fielding has once again combined contemporary domestic situations with heart-stopping chills and suspense. THE DEEP END is a mesmerizing psychological drama of one woman's struggle with the trauma of separation and the threat of sudden death.

Joy Fielding is the author of six previous novels, including her most recent, Life Penalty. With her lawyer husband and two daughters, she divides her time between homes in Toronto, Ontario, and Palm Beach, Florida.

Joy Fielding: The Deep End. Doubleday, ISBN: 0385198477 (March, 1986), 303 p., $16.95.