Perfect Little Lives
A Novel
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4.1 • 8 Ratings
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- $10.99
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Publisher Description
"A dark and riveting page-turner with an intelligent twist." —Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw Man, on Someone Had to Do It
ON ASHER LANE, SOME SECRETS ARE WORTH KILLING FOR…
Simone’s mother was murdered when she was thirteen. When her father was convicted, everything changed. Overnight, Simone went from living in a wealthy white neighborhood to scraping by.
Ten years later, Simone has given up on her dreams and lives a quiet life, writing book reviews and getting serious with her boyfriend. But with a true crime documentarian hounding her for a scoop and a surprise encounter with her childhood next-door neighbor, Hunter, the past seems set on haunting her. And after Hunter reveals that his father and her mother had a years-long affair, Simone is determined to find out who really killed her mother.
Simone is convinced that all evidence points to Hunter’s father, a renowned judge who had everything to lose if his affair—and his nascent love child—came to light. Playing the game from all sides, Simone enlists Hunter’s help in her investigation into his family—whether he realizes it or not. But is she so desperate for closure that she'll risk imploding her carefully rebuilt life?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this addictive mystery from the Brown twins (Someone Had to Do It), 23-year-old Simone seeks the truth about her mother's decade-old murder. After Simone's father was convicted and jailed for the crime, 13-year-old Simone was cast out of her home in an idyllic New Jersey cul-de-sac and forced to move in with her aunt in New York City. Now, she works a dead-end Manhattan PR job while trying to make her side hustle as an online book reviewer pay enough to cover her attempts to exonerate her father. Cracks are beginning to form in her relationship with straitlaced lawyer Reggie, and she's facing further stresses from Pia, a journalist who wants to interview her for a documentary about Simone's mother. When Simone learns from her white childhood neighbor, Hunter, that his father (a judge) and her mother had a yearslong affair that Hunter's father was determined to keep secret, she finally has a plausible lead in the case—but what happens if she falls in love with Hunter? The Browns deliver their trademark mix of steamy sex and social commentary in an easy-to-binge package. This is bound to please fans of Shonda Rhimes.
