Friends Like These: A Novel

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About Friends Like These: A Novel

Product Description A GMA Buzz Pick  “Kim McCreight's thrillers are smart, propulsive and impossible to put down." --Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told MeIn this relentlessly twisty literary thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight, a desperate intervention brings together a group of college friends 10 years after graduation -- a reunion marked by lies, betrayal, and murder.Coming Soon from Amblin TelevisionEveryone has those friends. Doesn’t matter how long it’s been, or how badly they’ve occasionally behaved, or how late it is when that call finally comes -- you show up. No questions asked.Honestly, that’s how the five of us ended up here in the Catskills. We did have the best of intentions. Especially after what happened to Alice all those years ago, we can’t bear to think of losing anyone else. In fact, we’ll do anything to make sure that doesn’t happen. We’ll go so much farther than we ever thought we would.  In the end, maybe that’s what caught up with us. That, and the fact that we’re such a complicated group -- so much history and so many big personalities. Secrets, too, that can slip out at the most inopportune moments. Of course, we love each other despite all of those things. We love each other no matter what.There’s something so beautiful about that kind of unconditional love. It can turn ugly, though. Or maybe that’s just us. After all, we’ve already been through so much together. And we have so very much to hide. Review A brilliantly constructed puzzle of a novel--using a shifting kaleidoscope of unique voices, McCreight hands us all the pieces and forces us to assemble them into a shocking portrait of regret, grief, and dark loyalty. -- "Julie Clark, author of The Last Flight"Years' worth of friendship, secrets, coverups, and lies lead to one intensely satisfying, jaw-dropping conclusion in this expertly plotted novel...Friends Like These is sensational and makes you wonder how well you can ever know even your closest friends.-- "Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author" About the Author KIMBERLY McCREIGHT, the author of the New York Times bestseller Reconstructing Amelia, which was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel as well as an Alex Award, was selected as one of Entertainment Weekly's Favorite Books of the Year, was one of CNN's Reader Favorites for 2013, placed as a finalist for Goodreads Best Mystery of the Year, and was chosen a Book Club pick for Target, Books-a-Million, and Indigo. She attended Vassar College and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, worked for several years as a litigation associate in New York City, and left the practice of law to write full-time. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Antietam ReviewOxford Magazine and Babble.

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