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Bad Like Me

by Louise Griffin

A neighborhood’s polished surface, unsettled by murder

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A neighborhood’s polished surface, unsettled by murder

In affluent Larchwood, the stabbing of a popular father exposes a web of envy, desire, and social pressure among the people around him. Louise Griffin builds the domestic thriller through four women’s perspectives: Lucy, Rachel, Grace, and Carmen, whose differing positions in the neighborhood shape what they know and how they see one another. As disappearances follow the killing, an older suspicious death enters the picture, widening the mystery beyond the playground. The setup brings parenthood and privilege into close contact with suspicion, while the multiple viewpoints leave the neighborhood’s account of events open to question.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of domestic thrillers centered on a close-knit community and a murder mystery.
  • Readers who enjoy stories told through several women’s perspectives.
  • Those interested in plots involving parenthood, privilege, envy, and social belonging.

Themes

Envy and desirePrivilege and social belongingParenthoodTrust and perspectiveSuspicion within a community

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Book overview

A propulsively told, multi-POV domestic thriller exploring envy, desire, privilege, and parenthood, for fans of Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True and Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies.

When Sam, the hottest dad in the neighborhood, is stabbed to death in a leafy local playground, no one in tony Larchwood can imagine who would want him dead. No one except the mom he snubbed, the dad he laughed at, the outsider he humiliated. Oh, and don't forget his lover. Or his wife.

This page-turning story is told by four women--each distinct, and not all reliable. There's gorgeous Lucy, who's ready to blow up her marriage; anxious Rachel, a classic overachiever; polished, powerhouse-lawyer Grace, who's deeply unhappy; and real estate agent Carmen, an outsider, who'd do anything to fit in. When one woman disappears from the neighborhood soon after the murder, and then another, fear takes hold in Larchwood.

Meanwhile, questions begin to arise about another suspicious death, one that took place years before. No one would think to link these events. No one except the killer ...
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