In the end, she’s left wondering not only whether her own marriage can be saved, but what it means to have a good marriage in the first place. But Zach is desperate: his wife, Amanda, has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs in their Brooklyn brownstone.Īs Lizzie is drawn into the dark heart of idyllic Park Slope, she learns that Zach and Amanda weren’t what they seemed-and that their friends, a close-knit group of fellow parents at the exclusive Brooklyn Country Day school, might be protecting troubling secrets of their own. Darcy Anderson’s husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his routine business trips when the unsuspecting Darcy looks for batteries in the garage. The last thing Lizzie needs right now is a call from an inmate at Rikers asking for help-even if Zach Grayson is an old friend. Now a major motion picture, Stephen King's brilliant and terrifying story of a marriage with truly deadly secrets. It wasn’t sudden, was it? Long ago the cracks in Lizzie’s marriage had started to show. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. That job and her brilliant, devoted husband Sam-she had everything she’d ever wanted. Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Until recently, she’d been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor.

Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they’d be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. A riveting novel from the bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman’s brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples make-and the secrets they keep-in order to stay together.

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