Two days later, on New Years Day, one of them is dead.
and another of them did it.
Keep your friends close, the old adage says.
Thought Catalog
But how close is too close?
Taurus
A Good Girls Guide To Murderby Holly Jackson
Everyone in Fairview knows the story.
It was all anyone could talk about.
And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.
But she cant shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day.
She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her.
How could he possibly have been a killer?
Whats indisputable is that someone is dead.
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with.
Shes funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one.
New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny.
She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years.
These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.
Cancer
Sometimes I Lieby Alice Feeney
My name is Amber Reynolds.
There are three things you should know about me:
1.
Im in a coma.2.
My husband doesnt love me anymore.3.
Amber wakes up in a hospital.
She cant open her eyes.
She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea.
Amber doesnt remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it.
Leo
The Chalk Manby C.J.
The chalk men are their secret code, stick figures they draw for one another as hidden messages.
But one morning the friends find a chalk man leading them to the woods.
They follow the message, only to find the dead body of a teenage girl.
Soon he learns that all his old friends received the same note.
But digging into the past proves more dangerous than he could have known.
Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration.
She knows shes made mistakes.
Shes not innocent, by any means.
But, she maintains, shes not guilty at least not of murder.
Which means someone else is.
Libra
We Were Liarsby E. Lockhart
A beautiful and distinguished family.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friendsthe Liarswhose friendship turns destructive.
Scorpio
The Perfect Motherby Aimee Molloy
A night out.
A few hours of fun.Thats all it was meant to be.
They call themselves the May Mothersa group of new moms whose babies were born in the same month.
Twice a week, they get together in Brooklyns Prospect Park for some much-needed adult time.
Now he is missing.
Sagittarius
Never Tellby Lisa Gardner
A man is dead, shot three times in his home office.
D. D. Warren arrives on the scene and recognizes the woman Evie Carter from a case many years back.
Evies father was killed in a shooting that was ruled an accident.
But for D.D., two coincidental murders is too many.
Flora Dane sees the murder of Conrad Carter on the TV news and immediately knows his face.
She remembers a night when she was still a victim a hostage and her captor knew this man.
and Flora are about to discover that in this case the truth is a devilishly elusive thing.
So Claire does what anyone would do in her position she stalks her.
Hannah is now Mrs. Carter, living the charmed life that should have been Claires.
Its the life Claire used to have before Hannah came along and took it all away from her.
Back then, Claire was a happy teenager with porcelain skin and long blond wavy hair.
Now shes an overweight, lazy drunk with hair the color of compost and skin to match.
But its not just Claire who has secrets.
Everyone in that house seems to have something to hide.
Now an adult, he still doesnt know where he comes from, and another child has gone missing.
No one seems to take Naomi Pines disappearance seriously, not even her father-with one exception.
Hester Crimstein, a television criminal attorney, knows through her grandson that Naomi was relentlessly bullied at school.
Hester asks Wilde-with whom she shares a tragic connection-to use his unique skills to help find Naomi.
Grief, shock, and resentment scattered the group and brought the era to an abrupt end.
A decade later, Lindsay has come a long way from the drug-addled world of Calhoun Lofts.
She has devoted best friends, a cozy apartment, and a thriving career as a magazines head fact-checker.
