Two Truths and a Lie by Meg Mitchell Moore.
This novel features a group of women that call themselves the Mom Squad who see themselves as inviting and kind but are actually gossipy and cliquey. A new woman, Sherri Griffin, has moved to the moms' well-to-do Massachusetts community with her eleven-year-old daughter Katie. Sherri claims to be fleeing a bad divorce back in Ohio, but the women suspect she's hiding something. Rebecca Coleman has taken a step back from the Mom Squad after her husband's tragic death eighteen months before. Rebecca seems to be the only member of the Mom Squad that is open to genuine friendship from Sherri. Rebecca's eighteen-year-old daughter Alexa spends time babysitting Katie. Alexa's group of long-time best friends have abandoned her, likely due to Alexa's increasingly popular YouTube channel. The Mom Squad narrates an occasional chapter, always as a collective "we", demonstrating the groupthink of the women. The reader learns early in the book that someone is killed after crashing a car into a pole, but we don't know who. Between the secrets that Sherri, Rebecca, and Alexa are harboring, and the dark humor Moore uses in telling this tale, I was drawn into this captivating drama.
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Anyone that has read this blog knows that Liane Moriarty is one of my favorite authors! The four adult siblings of the Delaney family are dealing with the disappearance of their mother, Joy. Their father Stan is identified by the police as a person of interest. Throughout the book we learn about each sibling and follow along as they try to unravel their pasts and their relationships with each other and their parents, all while trying to piece together what happened to their mother. Complicating everything is the appearance of a strange young women at Joy and Stan's door a while back. I found myself completely drawn in by the characters and needing to know what happened to Joy! This is a fascinating look at a family with a complicated past.
I Invited Her In by Adele Parks
Mel and Abi were best friends in college, but Mel hasn't heard from Abi in years. When Abi emails Mel out of the blue one day saying she needs a place to stay in England, Mel doesn't hesitate to take her in. Their lives couldn't be more different. Mel is happily married, having first raised her son on her own and then marrying doting husband Ben with whom she shares two daughters. Abi is a successful talk show host in California who regularly interviews celebrities. Everything seemed perfect for Mel until she found out her husband of seventeen years had been cheating on her, and now is going through a divorce. At first Abi is enchanted with glamorous Mel, but disconcerting events soon point to the possibility that Mel may want more than a temporary place to stay. This is a well-told piece of fiction, like all of Adele Parks books in my opinion.
The House Across The Lake by Riley Sager
I couldn't resist picking up this thriller, based not only on the description but on the setting (for obvious reasons considering where I live now)! Casey Fletcher has binoculars which she uses to spy on her neighbors across the sparsely populated Greene Lake in Vermont. This is possible by the multitude of windows in the big, fancy house owned by a former supermodel (Katherine) and her tech mogul husband (Tom). Casey is on hiatus at her family's lake house after her husband's drowning in Greene Lake sends her spiraling into a booze bottle thereby derailing her successful acting career. Shortly after Casey and Katherine meet, Casey rescues Katherine from a near drowning in the lake. Katherine then goes missing one night after Casey witnesses something strange through their windows using her binoculars. The reader learns that three young women in the area have also gone missing in recent years. Casey, struggling with the loss of her husband and a serious drinking problem, strongly suspects Tom based on what she saw through her binoculars. She gets her neighbor Boone, an ex-cop and recovered alcoholic, in on her amateur investigation. Could Greene Lake hold the bodies of all three missing women as well as Katherine? And who is responsible? Throw into the mix a supernatural legend that shadows the lake as well as an excellent twist about three quarters into the book and you have yourself a good and creepy spine-chiller!
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