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A Good Marriage: A Novel (original 2020; edição 2020)

por Kimberly McCreight (Autor)

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A New York Times Summer Reads Selection | A People Best Book of the Summer | A Library Reads Pick | A Book Riot Addictive New Thriller to Add to Your TBR Pile | A Book of the Month Selection | A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick | A Bookish Most-Anticipated Novel | A Good Morning America "Binge This!" Pick

Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent in this "irresistible domestic drama" (Washington Post) from the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman's brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples makeâ??and the secrets they keepâ??in order to stay together.

Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they'd be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Until recently, she'd been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. That job and her brilliant, devoted husband Samâ??she had everything she'd ever wanted. And then, suddenly, it all fell apart.

No. That's a lie. It wasn't sudden, was it? Long ago the cracks in Lizzie's marriage had started to show. She was just good at averting her eyes.

The last thing Lizzie needs right now is a call from an inmate at Rikers asking for helpâ??even if Zach Grayson is an old friend. But Zach is desperate: his wife, Amanda, has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs in their Brooklyn brownstone. And Zach's the primary suspect.

As Lizzie is drawn into the dark heart of idyllic Park Slope, she learns that Zach and Amanda weren't what they seemedâ??and that their friends, a close-knit group of fellow parents at the exclusive Brooklyn Country Day school, might be protecting troubling secrets of their own. In the end, she's left wondering not only whether her own marriage can be saved, but what it means to have a good marriage in the fi… (mais)

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Título:A Good Marriage: A Novel
Autores:Kimberly McCreight (Autor)
Informação:Harper (2020), 400 pages
Coleções:Read and owned
Avaliação:****
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A Good Marriage por Kimberly McCreight (2020)

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Although it is easy to judge a relationship from the outside, the only people who truly know the relationship are the ones involved. The author does an outstanding job of demonstrating that everything is not always as it seems in regards to all types of relationships, especially marriage.
A man is accused of killing his wife in their idyllic community. Of course he claims his innocence because in his perception they had a perfect marriage. As we all know, perceptions are always one sided. Was their marriage a "good" marriage? What about all of their friends and neighbors? Are their marriages everything that they seem?
This mystery takes you through a whirlwind of lies, deceit, secrets and intrigue. Your emotions will range from shock, anger, compassion and full out disbelief.
I loved everything about this book and I look forward to reading many more by this author. ( )
  Bondmom | Mar 10, 2024 |
This book tells the story of Lizzie and Zach (who are law school friends) and Zach's wife, Amanda. Lizzie is working late one night and receives a phone call from Zach, who has been arraigned and is at Rikers. He asks Lizzie to represent him on an assault charge. She is not the right type of lawyer to represent him and tells him so repeatedly but she ends up representing him. During the course of the conversation, Zach divulges that the "assault" took place when the police were trying to pull him away from Amanda's body. He is adamant that he did not murder her and wants Lizzie to find out who did. Lizzie starts investigating and finds out that Zach is not what he says he is and Amanda has her own secrets as well - she was being stalked and never told Zach about her dad. They have a small group of friends in the Brooklyn neighborhood where they live - all have kids in the same prestigious school - and all become involved as recipients in an email hacking scam through the school.

I did not anticipate the ending and usually try not to figure out "who did it" but my thoughts went in one direction only to be pulled in a completely different direction. It was a very well-written book and alternated between Lizzie's story (her husband is an alcoholic) and her investigation along with Amanda's story, including the last few days leading up to the night she was killed. ( )
  Cathie_Dyer | Feb 29, 2024 |
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  chip4201 | Feb 5, 2024 |
It wasn't awful, but I didn't care about any of the characters. Court and detective things bore me so I constantly wanted to skip those chapters. The resolution was... a weird decision. It felt like a waste of time.  ( )
  Jenniferforjoy | Jan 29, 2024 |
I understand why this book has received so many accolades. A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight is a great suspenseful thriller with many layers of secrets kept by ALL of the characters.

Lizzie is a lawyer working for a top-notch law firm when she is contacted by an inmate at Rikers Island. A friend from law school, Zach, has been arrested after finding his wife, Amanda, dead at the bottom of the stairs in their home. He begs for Lizzie’s help to get him out of Rikers and his name cleared as the prime suspect of his wife’s murder.

Lizzie has no interest in taking Zach’s case. She’s not a criminal defense attorney. In fact, she’s a former federal prosecutor. Lizzie is also having problems in her marriage. Her once perfect life is crumbling and she’s treading water trying to sort out her own problems, let alone wanting to put in the investigative work necessary to help Zach.

Amanda tells her story from the week leading up to her murder. She and Zach have a young son and the three of them recently moved to New York from California for Zach’s career. Amanda has been making friends with the other parents in their wealthy Park Slope neighborhood. As Amanda tries to conceal the truth about her marriage to Zach, her new friends are busy masking the truth about their own lives.

As the plot thickens, the characters’ secrets unravel with intensity. I liked how the story is told from so many different perspectives. Many of the secrets are dark and people’s reasons for keeping their secrets added to the complexity of their role in the story.

I borrowed the audiobook of A Good Marriage from my local library with the Hoopla app. Narrators Sarah Zimmerman, Karissa Vacker, and George Newbern did an excellent job bringing this suspenseful story to life.

I have photos and additional information that I'm unable to include here. It can all be found on my blog, in the link below.
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  NatalieRiley | Jan 20, 2024 |
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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:

COMING SOON FROM AMAZON AND NICOLE KIDMAN'S BLOSSOM FILMS

A New York Times Summer Reads Selection | A People Best Book of the Summer | A Library Reads Pick | A Book Riot Addictive New Thriller to Add to Your TBR Pile | A Book of the Month Selection | A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick | A Bookish Most-Anticipated Novel | A Good Morning America "Binge This!" Pick

Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent in this "irresistible domestic drama" (Washington Post) from the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman's brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples makeâ??and the secrets they keepâ??in order to stay together.

Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they'd be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Until recently, she'd been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. That job and her brilliant, devoted husband Samâ??she had everything she'd ever wanted. And then, suddenly, it all fell apart.

No. That's a lie. It wasn't sudden, was it? Long ago the cracks in Lizzie's marriage had started to show. She was just good at averting her eyes.

The last thing Lizzie needs right now is a call from an inmate at Rikers asking for helpâ??even if Zach Grayson is an old friend. But Zach is desperate: his wife, Amanda, has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs in their Brooklyn brownstone. And Zach's the primary suspect.

As Lizzie is drawn into the dark heart of idyllic Park Slope, she learns that Zach and Amanda weren't what they seemedâ??and that their friends, a close-knit group of fellow parents at the exclusive Brooklyn Country Day school, might be protecting troubling secrets of their own. In the end, she's left wondering not only whether her own marriage can be saved, but what it means to have a good marriage in the fi

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