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By Helen Cooper

This book is one of the most addictive edge-of-your-seat thrillers I’ve read in a long time. I inhaled it in one day. Thanks to NetGalley, Putnam Books, and Helen Cooper for the opportunity to read this novel before its 12/5/2023 release in exchange for my honest review.

While looking at her colleague’s honeymoon photos, Lucy sees one of a couple that was also on the trip. The man in the photo is her best friend’s husband, but the woman he is with is most certainly not her best friend. Lucy is sure of it but desperately wants to be wrong. Is he having an affair? Something worse? As Lucy pokes around for information, lives are put at risk, and she begins to question what is true and false and who she can trust. 

A fast-paced mystery with many twists and turns, it explores how much you can know anyone and the lengths people will go to to protect what’s most important. The characters are all richly developed, and the story is complex but not in a contrived way. I was guessing until the final few pages how all of the treads came together. I absolutely could not put it down.