Best Friends Forever
by Margot Hunt
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: MIRA (January 23, 2018)
Kat Grant and Alice Campbell have a friendship forged in shared confidences and long lunches lubricated by expensive wine. Though they’re very different women—the artsy socialite and the struggling suburbanite—they’re each other’s rocks. But even rocks crumble under pressure. Like when Kat’s financier husband, Howard, plunges to his death from the second-floor balcony of their South Florida mansion.
Howard was a jerk, a drunk, a bully and, police say, a murder victim. The questions begin piling up. Like why Kat has suddenly gone dark: no calls, no texts and no chance her wealthy family will let Alice see her. Why investigators are looking so hard in Alice’s direction. Who stands to get hurt next. And who is the cool liar—the masterful manipulator behind it all.
My
Rating:
Favorite
Quotes:
Kat wasn’t just wealthy. She came from capital-M Money.
She never eats. She lives on a diet of wine and bitterness…
No one liked Howard… Not to speak ill of the dead, but he
was an asshole. If everyone who thought he was an asshole was a suspect, they’d
have an overly large number of people to consider.
If insanity was a side effect of Botox, every Floridian
over the age of forty would be nuts.
My Review:
I was captivated
by this gripping story and was totally unprepared for the chilling and
gasp-worthy ending. The writing was
superb and cunningly clever - quickly setting an intense and thrumming sense of
intrigue while constantly pricking at my curiosity and luring me in with
enticing characters, expert storytelling, and a perplexing mystery. I was beguiled yet not fully trusting of the
lovely and vivacious Kat. The storyline
was brilliantly crafted and sharply honed and kept me riveted to my Kindle
through all the twists and turns. I had
speculated and cast out various theories but would never have anticipated or
come close to Ms. Hunt’s ingenious plotting.
She has mad skills and my utmost respect, although she also scares me a
little…
Empress DJ
About Margot Hunt
Margot Hunt is the pseudonym of a bestselling writer of twelve previous novels. Her work has been praised by Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews. BEST FRIENDS FOREVER is her first psychological thriller.
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