Reviews

Library Journal
“Keeps readers riveted… This novel creates a slow burn with not one but two shocking climaxes.”

Booklist – November 15, 2018
“Greene, [of the best-selling The Headmaster’s Wife (2014)], returns with another high-stakes puzzler. For both the protagonists and the reader, the trick is to figure out just who is “the perfect liar.” Greene leads readers (and his protagonists) down some very twisty avenues of reasoning that abruptly end. He begins with a depiction of a seemingly perfect couple but introduces a tinge of dependency and anxiety on the wife’s part that later amps up the tension. Widow Susannah has married Max, whose innovative art work has landed him a faculty position at a small university in Vermont. Cue to-die-for house in idyllic setting—disrupted by a note on the door that says, “I KNOW WHO YOU ARE.” Then a colleague of Max’s comes to dinner and turns up dead the next day, and another accusatory note is left on the couple’s front door. The steadily shocking tone could be more varied, but this stands as an absorbing mystery about who is predator and who is prey.” — Connie Fletcher