The Accomplice - Lisa Lutz

Mystery

Rating: 7/10

Owen is charming, privileged and chronically dissatisfied.  Luna is secretive, reticent, and pragmatic.  Despite the disparity in their natures, their bond, forged in their college years, is unshakeable.  Until it isn’t.

Years later, both married and settled into adulthood, an unexplained death brings to the surface long buried secrets. Secrets they’ve kept from those closest to them, and each other.  One of them becomes a suspect in this death and it turns out that is not their first time in the cross hairs of police.  

As the story unfolds in two separate timelines, the reader will be left to wonder if maybe being in the orbit of this strangely close couple is a safe place to be.

I always enjoy this author’s books; in this particular case I just wish it had a more provocative outcome. As the kids might say, it was a bit lame.

P.S. This book imparts a key important life lesson; no good can ever come of a game of truth or dare!

Book Pairing(s): The Passenger by Lisa Lutz, Little Secrets by Jennifer Hiller, The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeny