Domestic Suspense Fills the Pages in Kimberly McCreight's Latest Novel

Having read Reconstructing Amelia several years ago, I was looking forwarding to reading Kimberly McCreight's new novel, A Good Marriage, and I was not disappointed; I could not put it down.

Lizzie Kitsakis is a lawyer at an elite law firm in New York City. When she receives a phone call from an old college friend, Zach, whose wife has died having been found at the bottom of the stairs in their brownstone home, Lizzie is forced down another path she had not chosen. With Zach being the primary suspect in his wife's death, his plea for her help in representing him draws Lizzie into facing her own marriage and the choices she made in her past while trying to figure out what happened to Zach's wife, Amanda. Alternating between Lizzie and Amanda's perspectives, McCreight weaves the past with the present, and exposes the secrets we keep from those we love and the darkest secrets we keep from ourselves.

While some of the plots touched upon in A Good Marriage are not new - husband accused of killing beautiful wife, wealthy community harboring dark secrets - McCreight possesses a gift for creating layered stories filled with deeply buried secrets, and where authors in the genre fail, she expertly knows how to set the right pace to keep the reader turning the pages.