All the Broken People
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3.6 • 14 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
A woman in search of a fresh start is about to get more than she bargained for in this twisty and addictive domestic thriller for fans of The Couple Next Door.
Fleeing Brooklyn with little more than a suitcase and her trusty dog, Lucy King heads to rustic Woodstock , New York, eager to lose herself in a quiet life where her past can never find her. But when she meets Vera and John, the alluring couple next door, their friendship proves impossible to resist. Just as Lucy starts to think the worst is behind her, the couple delivers a staggering bombshell: they, too, need to escape their troubles--and the only way they can begin their new life is if Lucy helps them fake John's death.
Afraid to lose her newfound support system, Lucy reluctantly conspires with them to stage an "accidental" death on a hike nearby. It's just one little lie to the police, after all, and she knows a thing or two about the importance of fresh starts. But what begins as an elaborate ruse turns all too real when John turns up dead in the woods the morning after their hike. Now, Lucy must figure out who she can trust and who's pulling the strings of her tenuous new life . . . before she takes the fall for murder.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Freelance writer Lucy King's move from Brooklyn to Woodstock, N.Y., to escape an abusive relationship jump-starts YA author Konen's solid first adult novel (after Love and Other Train Wrecks). Accompanied only by her dog, Lucy believes she can live anonymously in the idyllic-sounding town. Still, she fears each day that her controlling boyfriend, Davis Gutman, will find her. Cut off from her friends and with her parents dead, lonely Lucy becomes consumed by her charming next-door neighbors, artist John Nolan and his wife, Vera Abernathy, who manages their gallery in town. But a scandal involving a teenage girl has made the couple outcasts. The appealing Lucy, whose vulnerability makes her blind to John and Vera's flaws, agrees to help them fake John's death so they can start afresh. But the plan quickly goes awry. Believable twists imbue the narrative's urgency as each character's secrets are spilled and as Lucy's past catches up with her. Lucy's credible fears about Davis elicit empathy. Konen should win a new set of fans with this domestic thriller.
