Publishers Weekly: In this captivating standalone from Thompson (Such a Lovely Family), tragedy and scandal rock a neighborhood in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Gwen Khoury, Aimee Stern, and Lisa Greco-King enjoy weekly get-togethers with their husbands and children, but at one such gathering, tensions rise after Lisa questions Aimee’s parenting and Gwen’s husband, Anton, has too much to drink. At the end of the evening, Anton gets uncomfortably close to Aimee and whispers “You deserve to know” in her ear before leaving. The next day, the police inform Gwen that Anton’s corpse was found near a local bar. Suspecting homicide, investigators question Gwen and Anton’s neighbors, discovering that Aimee’s husband, Scott, was one of the last people to see Anton alive. Soon, the women start to turn on one another, and flashbacks reveal cracks in their friendship that predate the skirmish in the book’s opening scene. Thompson drops her fully fleshed-out characters into a mile-a-minute plot peppered with blindsiding twists, making the novel easy to devour in a single sitting. This is domestic suspense at its finest. (Mar.)
Jan 232025