A Good Marriage

When Lizzie Kitsakis receives the call, she is working late. Hard hours are typical at prestigious law companies like Young & Crane, but if Lizzie was working there willingly, they might be easier to bear. She had been a blissfully underpaid federal prosecutor until lately. With that career and her intelligent, loving spouse Sam, she had all she could have ever wanted. Subsequently, everything abruptly collapsed.

No. It is untrue. That wasn't unexpected, was it? Lizzie and her husband had begun to exhibit signs of disintegration long ago. She was simply adept at avoiding her gaze.

Even though Zach Grayson is an old acquaintance, Lizzie doesn't need a call from a prisoner at Rikers asking for assistance right now. Zach, meanwhile, is in a dire situation because his wife Amanda was discovered dead at the base of their Brooklyn brownstone's stairs. Zach is the main suspect, too.

Lizzie discovers that Zach and Amanda weren't who they claimed to be and that their pals, a close-knit community of parents at the prestigious Brooklyn Country Day school, may be hiding frightening secrets of their own as she is driven deeper and deeper into the seedy underbelly of beautiful Park Slope. In the end, she is left questioning what it really means to have a successful marriage in the first place, in addition to whether or not her own marriage can be rescued.

In this gripping book by the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent. A woman's violent murder exposes the dangerous concessions some couples make—and the secrets they keep—in order to remain together.