The Last House Guest
A year after her best friend dies in Littleport, Maine, a local woman finds a hidden phone that reopens the case.
2,596-word summary · 12 min read
Tag: secrets
49 books with this tag.
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The Hypnotist's Love Story
A hypnotherapist falls for a widower whose ex keeps watching from the shadows.
2,490-word summary · 11 min read
The First Time I Saw Him
Five years after Owen vanished, Hannah and Bailey have rebuilt in California until Owen walks into her exhibition and danger returns.
2,407-word summary · 11 min read
Such a Clever Girl
Fifteen years after the Tanners vanished, Aubrey returns at 30 as a new disappearance forces three women to face old secrets.
2,203-word summary · 10 min read
Strangers in the Villa
A strained couple in a Spanish villa takes in guests who refuse to leave.
2,208-word summary · 10 min read
Someone We Know
A teen burglar, two unsigned apology letters, and a murdered neighbor wife turn a quiet suburb paranoid.
2,743-word summary · 12 min read
My Lovely Wife
A bored suburban couple murders together until one victim unspools them.
2,421-word summary · 11 min read
My Husband's Wife
Artist Eden Fox returns from a run to find her key fails at Spyglass and her husband claims a stranger is his wife in Hope Falls.
2,437-word summary · 11 min read
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff tells one 24 year marriage twice, first through Lotto's bright luck, then through Mathilde's hidden past and quiet control.
2,992-word summary · 13 min read
Anatomy of an Alibi
Two Louisiana women swap lives for twelve hours to spy on a husband, then he turns up murdered and only one of them has an alibi.
2,278-word summary · 10 min read
All the Little Houses
In 1980s Longview, Texas, social queen Charleigh and daughter Nellie guard mean-mom secrets when a new family threatens their empire.
2,206-word summary · 10 min read
Fallen Too Far
After her mother's death, broke Blaire moves to Rosemary Beach for summer work and falls for wealthy Rush Finlay, but hidden family secrets test her pride and…
3,127-word summary · 14 min read
An Anonymous Girl
Jessica takes a paid ethics study in New York and falls under Dr. Shields's control, until tasks and lies pull both women toward a dangerous reversal.
2,421-word summary · 11 min read
The Good Sister
Twin sisters share a careful arrangement until a plan to have a baby pulls old family secrets into view.
3,255-word summary · 14 min read
Black Cake
After their mother dies, estranged siblings Byron and Benny inherit a black cake and taped confession revealing her hidden life from Jamaica to London.
2,063-word summary · 9 min read
Pretty Little Liars
Four girls get texts from dead Alison a year after she vanished, and secrets start leaking.
1,922-word summary · 9 min read
All the Missing Girls
Told backwards over fifteen days, a woman probes two disappearances ten years apart in her hometown.
2,064-word summary · 9 min read
The Dry
Falk returns to drought-hit Kiewarra for Luke's murder-suicide, and an old secret about Ellie's drowning resurfaces to change the case.
2,100-word summary · 9 min read
One of Us Is Next
A year after Simon's death, a copycat texter drags Maeve, Knox and Phoebe into a cruel Truth or Dare game in Bayview.
2,348-word summary · 10 min read
Truly Madly Guilty
A Sydney barbecue turns when two-year-old Ruby falls in a fountain. Three couples face guilt, marriage strain, and repair.
2,892-word summary · 13 min read
The Paper Palace
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
2,588-word summary · 12 min read
Confess
A young mother fighting to see her son takes a job with a Dallas artist who turns anonymous confessions into paintings.
2,733-word summary · 12 min read
The Husband's Secret
Cecilia finds a letter meant to be opened after her husband's death, and reads it while he lives.
1,985-word summary · 9 min read
November 9
Fallon and Ben meet every November 9 for five years with no contact between, until his novel reveals the fire that scarred her.
2,547-word summary · 11 min read