The Rule of Three
A Novel
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3.1 • 8 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
From E. G. Scott, the utterly gripping tale of three couples whose game night goes horribly wrong. Full of twists and turns that you'll never see coming, this is the summer read you won't be able to put down.
Once a week, three women get together for book club in Kingsland, a private, gated community full of neighbors looking to do their business away from prying eyes. On the same night, their husbands meet up to play poker, where much more is being planned than anyone could guess.
But on this particular night, something goes terribly wrong. When all three men end up dead or hospitalized, and the entire town is being questioned, no one seems to be able to answer the only question that really needs asking: What the hell happened?
This is a riveting story, not just of powerful women or vengeful men, but of secrets, neighbors, blackmail, business gone wrong, and the most intimate of desires spilling into full view.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
One night at Kingsland, a luxurious by invitation only Long Island, N.Y., community—the setting for this turbo-plotted, character-challenged domestic thriller from the pseudonymous Scott (In Case of Emergency)—Vicky Barnes returns home from her weekly Sunday book club spent with sister Laura Mathers and friend Monica Nichols to find Terry, her disgraced former congressman husband, shot dead in their den. In short order, 911 calls come in concerning the other two men with whom Terry had just finished his weekly poker game: Spencer Nichols, former tech CEO convicted of defrauding investors (and Monica's husband), is missing, and Gil Mathers, #MeToo'd motivational speaker (and Laura's spouse), has been found collapsed on the road with a gunshot wound to the head. While each of the men has numerous enemies, the wives are initially the primary persons of interest—except they appear to have airtight alibis. Readers should be prepared for a mash-up of familiar plotlines, as recounted by half a dozen largely unreliable narrators, and the lack of anyone to root for. Nonetheless, this twist-filled tale makes for fast-paced diversion.
