City People by Elizabeth Topp
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This story looks like a mystery story on its face. Several families are at a private school tour when one family doesn’t show. They all find out later that the mom died under mysterious circumstances. It sounded to me like it was going to be a drama around what happened.
And it maybe a little bit is. But it’s much more about how this death impacts all the other moms in the circle and a peek at their lives and a detailed study around how what you see is not the truth. And how every person, every marriage has secrets that aren’t visible from the outside.
And sometimes the richer the person, the bigger the secrets and scandals.
This book mostly read like a character study of the rich to me and I enjoyed it. It was fast paced and hard to put down.
with gratitude to netgalley and Little A for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
