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When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom – covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her – she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.
Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby Reyes, known as the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder in a trial that riveted Canada in the early nineties. Reyes knows who Paris really is, and when she's unexpectedly released from prison, she threatens to expose all of Paris's secrets. Left with no other choice, Paris must finally confront the dark past she escaped, once and for all.
Because the only thing worse than a murder charge are two murder charges.
Paris Peralta’s name is everywhere. The decades-younger wife of a comedian, a celebrity enjoying a career rebirth. Paris has been charged with his brutal murder. She was found holding the murder weapon, covered in his blood. She was much younger. She already had a questionable reputation. But do any of those things actually make her guilty?
As both a reader and a woman, I’ve often struggled to believe that true love could exist between two people in such vastly different stages of life. Yet a memoir I read recently made that idea far more understandable. This is what Paris would shout from the rooftops if she could: she and her husband Jimmy were truly in love.
While readers may expect the story to focus solely on Paris and her marriage to Jimmy, Jennifer Hillier weaves in another chilling narrative. Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby Reyes was convicted of a brutal murder. Now on the brink of release from prison, Ruby wants something from Paris—and what she wants is to the tune of millions of dollars.
Paris and Ruby are connected in ways that slowly and devastatingly come to light, and Ruby is convinced she has Paris over a barrel. This is where the novel truly takes hold. Things We Do in the Dark is a dark, twisty thriller packed with shocking revelations, moral complexity, and a powerful emotional punch that lingers long after the final page. The intensity of this well-written story was made even better with the excellent narration by Carla Vegar.
She's the author of seven psychological thrillers, including the USA Today, Toronto Star, and The Globe and Mail bestselling Things We Do in the Dark, winner of the ITW Thriller Award for Best Audiobook. Described as “an intoxicating thrill ride” by the New York Times and “propulsive and chilling” by People magazine, it was a Book of the Month Club selection, an Indigo Top Ten Best Book of the Year, an Amazon Editor’s Spotlight Pick, a Loan Stars pick, and her third consecutive novel to be honored as a LibraryReads pick, which places her in their Hall of Fame.
She's also published six other novels, including the USA Today bestselling Little Secrets (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Anthony Award), and Jar of Hearts (winner of the ITW Thriller Award for Best Hardcover Novel and shortlisted for the Anthony and Macavity Awards). She also wrote Creep, Freak, The Butcher, and Wonderland, which have been recently reissued by Gallery Books in beautiful trade paperback formats. Her books have been published in twenty-four languages so far.
Jennifer is Filipino-Canadian, born and raised in Toronto, but she spent eight amazing years living in Seattle, which is where she first became a published author. She's a Seahawks fan who married a Packers guy, and they have a son in middle school who wishes she wrote books like Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (she does too, kid, she does too).
She's afraid of the dark and can’t sleep unless she's checked the locks on the doors several times. She loves writing when it’s raining, sleeping when it’s sunny, and reading after everyone else has gone to bed. She's a cat person without a cat, which makes her sad. But she's now back in the Toronto area permanently with her family, which makes her happy.
Heart of Glass, her newest thriller, will be coming August 25, 2026 from Minotaur Books.
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