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"Blade-sharp, whip-smart, and genuinely original -- a thriller to refresh your faith in the genre, your belief that a story can still outpace and outsmart you."-- A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in The Window
"Clever and surprising...The superb character-driven plot delivers an astonishing, believable jolt."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Deserves two big thumbs up. Readers will be gripped by this astonishing story in which one gasp-inducing twist follows on the heels of another. A unique page-turner that just begs to be turned into a movie." --Booklist (starred review)
"Sly, sinister...a white-knuckled read. There are gasp-worthy surprises, of course, and the exquisite and lurid twists will reveal themselves in time."--Vanity Fair
A smart, witty, crackling novel of psychological suspense in which a girl from a hardscrabble small town meets a gorgeous Instagram influencer from the big city, with a murderous twist that will shock even the most savvy reader.
On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from the state police pulls into the hard-luck town of Copper Falls. The local junkyard is burning, and the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is dead--with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found. As scandal ripples through the community, Detective Ian Bird's inquiries unexpectedly lead him away from small-town Maine to a swank city townhouse several hours south. Adrienne Richards, blonde and fabulous social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire, had been renting Lizzie's tiny lake house as a country getaway...even though Copper Falls is anything but a resort town.
As Adrienne's connection to the case becomes clear, so too does her connection to Lizzie, who narrates their story from beyond the grave. Each woman is desperately lonely in her own way, and they navigate a relationship that cuts across class boundaries: transactional, complicated, and, finally, deadly. A Gone Girl for the gig economy, this is a story of privilege, identity, and cunning, as two devious women from opposite worlds discover the dangers of coveting someone else's life.
"Both amusingly satirical and darkly bloody."--The Washington Post
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The murder of Lizzie Oullette, the most hated woman in rundown Copper Falls, Maine, jump-starts this clever, surprising psychological thriller from YA author Rosenfield (Inland). Few people mourn Lizzie, their dislike stemming from her rough background, the only child of the local junkyard's owner. Instead, the residents of Copper Falls ("not even the yearly influx of tourists could reverse the town's protracted death from neglect") are more worried about her missing husband, the prime suspect in Lizzie's murder, regarded by them as "some kind of hometown hero whose life had been unfairly derailed." The investigation of Det. Ian Bird of the Maine State Police takes him to Boston to track down Adrienne and Ethan Richards, the wealthy couple who rented the lake house where Lizzie's body was found. A much-despised disgraced financier, Ethan was never prosecuted for bilking many out of their life savings. Flashbacks reveal how the lives of Lizzie and smug, arrogant Adrienne intersected with fatal results. The superb character-driven plot delivers an astonishing, believable jolt. Rosenfield shines a searing light on issues of classism, jealousy, and squandered potential. Agent: Yfat Reiss Gendell, Foundry Media. (Oct.)
Booklist Review
This grisly, gut-twisting blockbuster of a mystery from pop-culture and political writer Rosenfield deserves two big thumbs up. Lizzie Ouellette has always been considered trailer trash by the citizens of Copper Falls, Maine. She and her dad run a junkyard, but their biggest sin is that they weren't born in Copper Falls. Lizzie's dad moved to town 40 years ago and married a local girl, but when Lizzie was a kid, her mother--drunk and drugged--died in a car crash. Lizzie's had a tough life, winding up getting pregnant by and then marrying Dwayne, the ne'er-do-well son of the local preacher. Nevertheless, whatever she's done wrong, whatever secrets she kept, she surely doesn't deserve to be murdered, her body left in the torched junkyard. Dwayne and his shotgun are missing, so the local cops conclude that he shot Lizzie and fled. It's not that easy, as the state police investigator who found the body suspects. Readers will be gripped by this Byzantine and astonishing story in which one gasp-inducing twist follows on the heels of another. A unique page-turner that just begs to be turned into a movie.
Library Journal Review
In Rosenfield's (cowriter, with Stan Lee, of A Trick of Light) solo adult debut, Lizzie Oullette recounts, from beyond the grave, the events that led up to her death and the disappearance of her husband. Born and raised in her father's junkyard in Maine, Lizzie has long wanted something better for herself but been thwarted at every turn. So when rich, glamorous Adrienne Richards wants to rent Lizzie's lake cottage on a regular basis, despite its obscure location and lack of amenities, Lizzie sees an opportunity to change her life. She and Adrienne develop an uneasy friendship that eventually sours, leading to betrayal and death. Cassandra Campbell, Sophie Amoss, and Chris Andrew Ciulla narrate, bringing to life the two women and a detective investigating Lizzie's death. VERDICT Even infrequent suspense readers will see the big twist coming a mile down the road, but fans of the underdog will still enjoy the ride.--Stephanie Klose