"Blade-sharp, whip-smart, and genuinely original -- a thriller to
refresh your faith in the genre, your belief that a story can still
outpace and outsmart you."-- A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling
author of The Woman in The Window
"Clever and surprising...The superb character-driven plot delivers an
astonishing, believable jolt."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Deserves two big thumbs up. Readers will be gripped by this
astonishing story in which one gasp-inducing twist follows on the heels
of another. A unique page-turner that just begs to be turned into a
movie." --Booklist (starred review)
"Sly, sinister...a white-knuckled read. There are gasp-worthy
surprises, of course, and the exquisite and lurid twists will reveal
themselves in time."--Vanity Fair
A smart, witty, crackling novel of psychological suspense in which a
girl from a hardscrabble small town meets a gorgeous Instagram
influencer from the big city, with a murderous twist that will shock
even the most savvy reader.
On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator
from the state police pulls into the hard-luck town of Copper Falls. The
local junkyard is burning, and the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is
dead--with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found. As scandal ripples
through the community, Detective Ian Bird's inquiries unexpectedly lead
him away from small-town Maine to a swank city townhouse several hours
south. Adrienne Richards, blonde and fabulous social media influencer
and wife of a disgraced billionaire, had been renting Lizzie's tiny lake
house as a country getaway...even though Copper Falls is anything but a
resort town.
As Adrienne's connection to the case becomes clear, so too does her
connection to Lizzie, who narrates their story from beyond the grave.
Each woman is desperately lonely in her own way, and they navigate a
relationship that cuts across class boundaries: transactional,
complicated, and, finally, deadly. A Gone Girl for the gig economy,
this is a story of privilege, identity, and cunning, as two devious
women from opposite worlds discover the dangers of coveting someone
else's life.
"Both amusingly satirical and darkly bloody."--The Washington Post
