Joyce Carol Oates

Cherie loves being the naughtiest kitten until she meets a group of rowdy animals who show her that being naughty is not always that nice.

When Marguerite disappears from a small town in Upstate New York, her younger sister Gigi follows clues to discover her sister's fate.

"When a venerated mystery writer is accused of plagiarism by a strange woman from his small New Jersey town, his life--and sanity--begins to unravel in the literary thriller"--

"Time travel" - and its hazards-are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America - "Wainscotia, Wisconsin"-that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of "rehabilitation"-but cannot resist falling in love...

"In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and elusive figure at the periphery...