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Publisher: Severn House
Published: June 3, 2025
Summary:
Theirs is a reunion . . . to die for! Four friends are meeting at a beautiful Cape Cod beach house for a long overdue reunion. But before the trip is over, one of them will wind up dead . . . Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Lucy Foley.
It’s been twenty years since Mori, Avery, Remi and Calista last saw each other. As they reconnect on Cape Cod to celebrate Calista’s 40th birthday, each one hides a painful and devastating secret.
Former introvert, Mori is now a bestselling erotica author. She’s more successful than she ever dreamed, and yet shamefully on the cusp of divorce #3.
Remi’s a yoga instructor, blissfully married to her high school sweetheart. On this trip, she’s concealing her pregnancy – and the baby’s paternity.
Quiet Avery is a farm wife living in Iowa. Her life doesn’t have the scandals of her friends’. But she does have a house full of kids she fears she’ll never see again . . .
And Calista, the quintessential suburban mom and high school English teacher, is harboring the biggest secret of all.
These four women are about to learn that one little white lie could kill more than just their friendship . . .
Lie in the Tide is an edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller that digs deep into those little white lies that have the potential to turn deadly.
My thoughts:
This is the first of what is going to be Holly Danver’s Little White Lies series and I am all in! I was captivated right from the beginning by each of the four women’s stories and found that I could not out this book down, reading it in just two sittings. It’s so atmospheric and suspenseful and kept me guessing all the way through.
A reunion between friends who haven’t been in touch in a while is a trope we’ve all read before, but Danvers definitely adds her own spin here. Really focusing on those white lies we tell in relationships, relationships of all types, she is able to build on the secrets of the past and the consequences of both those lies and secrets & how once they start coming out, it’s like a house of cards falling down.
Every time I thought I knew where this was going, something new would be revealed to shake things up and it really kept me on my toes.
I thoroughly enjoyed this one, especially that final chapter, and am curious to see how this series moves forward.
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