Apples Never Fall

　　深愛的人，永遠傷自己最深…
　　如果母親失蹤了，你會報警嗎？
　　如果最大的嫌疑犯，是自己的父親呢？
 
　　Delaney夫婦Joy和Stan是朋友圈眼中鶼鰈情深的典範，不僅是網球上大殺四方的好手，場下的你情我儂也是眾人見證。50年的婚姻後，他們決定賣掉聲譽良好的網球教育事業，好好靜下來享受真正的黃金人生。四個小孩曾經也盼望成為網球界的明日之星，現在都已成年，並安穩地各自過著生活，家人之間的感情在外人看來仍很融洽。

　　然而這天晚上，和睦的家庭在一個陌生女子Savannah來訪後，遭逢巨變。渾身是血的Savannah，痛訴她被男友毒打的經過。Joy決定將她護入門內，給她一個暫時的棲身之所。然而2020年2月14日的早晨，Joy卻宣告失蹤，來路不明的Savannah也不見人影，警察只能詢問唯一留在現場的人證－Stan。他和其他嫌疑人一樣宣稱自己的清白，但作為失蹤者的配偶，Stan似乎隱藏了一些秘密。而兒女們反覆閱讀來自母親的最後一封簡訊，在那被輸入法自動矯正的文字行間，好像也透露出一絲詭異氛圍。四位兄弟姊妹自動分成無條件相信父親清白，以及不那麼確定的立場，如同網球場上對立的兩側。他們即將以全新視角，重新審視父母間的婚姻，以及家族之間的過往，如同一來一往的網球，Delaney家族真正的樣貌也將逐漸清晰。(文／博客來外文館)

#1 New York Times Bestseller ● APeacock Original TV Series-Now Streaming! ● ＂Gripping.＂―Oprah.com
● From Liane Moriarty, the bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.

The Delaney family love one another dearly--it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .

If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?

This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.

The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They’re killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are Stan and Joy so miserable?

The four Delaney children--Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke--were tennis stars in their own right, yet as their father will tell you, none of them had what it took to go all the way. But that’s okay, now that they’re all successful grown-ups and there is the wonderful possibility of grandchildren on the horizon.

One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy’s door, bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend. The Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. If only that was all she wanted.

Later, when Joy goes missing, and Savannah is nowhere to be found, the police question the one person who remains: Stan. But for someone who claims to be innocent, he, like many spouses, seems to have a lot to hide. Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure--but as the two sides square off against each other in perhaps their biggest match ever, all of the Delaneys will start to reexamine their shared family history in a very new light.

Liane Moriarty is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret, and Truly Madly Guilty; the New York Times bestsellers Nine Perfect Strangers, What Alice Forgot, and The Last Anniversary; The Hypnotist’s Love Story; and Three Wishes. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children.