Ladykiller
A Novel
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Publisher Description
Everyone has a story. But not everyone’s story is true.
When a young woman vanishes from her remote Greek island estate, her best friend races to find her, using clues found in the explosive manuscript she left behind.
“Full of sun, sex, money, and greed, not since Gone Girl have unreliable narrators been this fun.”—Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters
Gia and Abby have been friends since childhood, forever bonded by the tragedy that unfolded in Greece when they were eighteen. Now thirty, heiress Gia is back in Greece with her shiny new husband, entertaining glamorous guests with champagne under the hot Mediterranean sun, while bookish Abby is working fourteen-hour days as an attorney. When Gia invites Abby on an all-expenses-paid trip to Sweden to celebrate her birthday, Abby’s thrilled to reconnect.
But on the day of her flight, Abby receives an ominous email that threatens to unearth the skeletons of her past, and when she and Gia’s brother, Benny, arrive in Sweden, Gia isn’t there. Worried, Abby and Benny fly to Greece, where they find Gia’s beachfront estate eerily deserted, the sole clue to her whereabouts the manuscript she penned, detailing the events leading up to her disappearance. Gia’s narrative reveals the dark truth about her provocative new marriage and the dirty secrets of their seductive guests, a story almost too scandalous to be believed. But the pages end abruptly, leaving more questions than answers.
How much of Gia’s story is true? Where is she now? And will Abby find her before it’s too late?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wood's bracing debut centers on a pair of potentially venomous best friends. Gia Torres, a wealthy heiress, and Abby Corman, whose mother was once Gia's personal chef, have been friends since childhood. When the two were 18, Gia saved Abby's life by killing a man who attacked her, then turned the experience into a successful memoir—though the women's memories of the incident differed. More than a decade later, Abby gets an invitation to join Gia on an all-expenses-paid vacation to Sweden. Though initially reluctant, Abby accepts, hoping the trip will help mend the rift that developed after Gia married a shady shipping magnate. Once Abby arrives in Sweden, however, Gia is nowhere to be found. After rushing to Gia's home in Greece, Abby discovers the draft of a memoir about the days leading up to Gia's disappearance, but she can't untangle fact from fiction within its pages. Alternating Abby's perspective with passages from Gia's manuscript, Wood ingeniously orchestrates the plot to a series of powder-keg reveals. Fans of Paula Hawkins will devour this wily, sun-soaked thriller.
