The Couple in the Photo

Two couples—Lucy and Adam, Cora and Scott—are the best of friends. It helps that, with the exception of Lucy, they were flatmates as far back as university. They’re in and out of one another’s houses, share care for the children, and have even purchased a beach house together, spending the weekends collectively renovating it. So when Lucy is at a work party and a colleague shares photos of her honeymoon in the Maldives, she’s shocked to see Scott in one of the photos, clearly with another woman. What is going on? Adam tells her to drop it—who knows what she really saw in the photo?—but Lucy is like a dog with a bone. Her investigation of Scott’s life opens up layers of deceit, causing Adam, and then Scott, to launch an aggressive campaign to gaslight her. Eventually Lucy realizes that she isn’t crazy but that everyone in her life knows far more about Scott, and the mystery woman in the photograph, than she does. For readers who love domestic suspense that doesn’t shy away from well-developed characters; large, complex plots; and plenty of dialogue. For fans of Lisa Unger and Rachel Hawkins.