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Backstabber

by Kimberley Chambers

Published 2017484 pagesISBN 978-0-0082-0845-5

The final thrilling showdown between the Mitchells and the Butlers. This is Kimberley Chambers at her heart-stopping best! There's never a dull moment in the Butler family and when Vinny starts to receive mysterious packages containing dead creatures, it can only mean one thing ... someone is out for blood. For a long time, Vinny Butler and Eddie Mitchell ruled their manors from a respectful distance. Now they're doing business together and their family has just been united in a way they never expected. But after one murder too many things start to unravel. The past comes back to haunt both families, and it will be the downfall of one of them. Will it be the Mitchells or the Butlers who get what's coming to them? Who is the backstabber?

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Fiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.

Who it may suit

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Readers looking for a substantial, immersive commitment with room for a world or argument to unfold.

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BackstabberKimberley Chambers
Heightened4.2/5

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A quick reading snapshot

Edition facts and catalog signals to help you decide whether this book fits what you want to read next.

Reading lengthA longer, immersive read484 pages in this edition
Publication eraContemporaryFirst published or edition dated 2017
Primary categoryFictionExplore similar books below
ISBN-13
978-0-0082-0845-5
Language
English
Edition record
OL28197804M
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Good to know

Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.