Getting Away with Murder
Shari Lapena's Getting Away with Murder follows a status-obsessed New York couple who decide their money problems have one clean solution: the death of a wealthy relative. It's domestic suspense at its most calculating, a fast, twisty thriller about two people who need to trust each other completely and mostly can't.
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Every domestic thriller treats marriage like a raft: two people, one vessel, betting neither one rocks it hard enough to sink them both. Shari Lapena puts hers on actual water. Getting Away with Murder opens with a squall on the open Atlantic, three people aboard, and by the next chapter only the brownstone's calm is left standing. The book doesn't stay in that storm, but whatever happened out there follows Jill and Ted home, and it never quite leaves. Before the storm, there's the real subject: the house. Jill and Ted have spent years turning a New York townhouse into an extension of their own self-regard, right down to the staircase, and when Ted's inheritance runs dry and a bad investment follows it, the brownstone becomes the one thing they refuse to lose. Lapena doesn't linger on the panic. She skips straight to the plan: one relative, comfortably wealthy, conveniently mortal, and a payout large enough to make the math irresistible.
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