A Washington Post and Sun Sentinel Best Book of the Year
"One hell of a rip-roaring read."-- Seattle Review of Books
"Cunning. . . . Get ready to be led down the garden path to a
conclusion so morally ambiguous a professional ethicist might have to be
called in." -- Washington Post
From Alafair Burke--New York Times bestselling author of the runaway
hit, The Wife-- comes another twisty tale of domestic noir. When a
prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters--one the
dead man's widow, the other his ex--must set aside mistrust and old
resentments ... but can they escape their past?
Keep your enemies close and your sister closer.
Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always
seemed to be the one in charge. She was the honor roll student with big
dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky--always restless and more
than a little reckless--was the opposite of her ambitious little sister.
She floated from job to job and man to man, and stayed close to home in
Cleveland.
For a while, it seemed that both sisters had found happiness. Chloe
earned a scholarship to an Ivy League school and moved to New York City,
where she landed a coveted publishing job. Nicky married promising young
attorney Adam Macintosh and gave birth to a baby boy they named Ethan.
The Taylor sisters became virtual strangers.
Now, more than fifteen years later, their lives are drastically
different--and Chloe is married to Adam. When he's murdered by an
intruder at the couple's East Hampton beach house, Chloe reluctantly
allows her teenage stepson's biological mother--her estranged sister,
Nicky--back into her life. But when the police begin to treat Ethan as a
suspect in his father's death, the two sisters are forced to unite . . .
and to confront the truth behind family secrets they have tried to bury
in the past.
