Summary: Publisher Annotation: Everyone has secrets. YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know. Like where did her son go when he snuck out of the house? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows? And what’s buried in her backyard? Everyone has secrets. Some are worse than others. April’s secrets are enough to destroy her. I’ll make sure of that. Thorndike Press large print thriller, adventure and suspense series.
Publisher Annotation: Everyone has secrets. YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know. Like where did her son go when he snuck out of the house? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows? And what’s buried in her backyard? Everyone has secrets. Some are worse than others. April’s secrets are enough to destroy her. I’ll make sure of that. Thorndike Press large print thriller, adventure and suspense series.
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Booklist Review
Long Island baking influencer April Masterson appears to be on top of the world: her YouTube show, April's Sweet Secrets, is incredibly popular; her seven-year-old son, Bobby, is thriving; and her handsome husband, Elliot, is devoted to her. But then April starts getting text messages from an unknown number, sent by someone who knows way too much about her life. With her best friend, Julie, preoccupied with her PTA duties, April turns to Maria, a new neighbor. But her fast friendship with Maria seems to sour when Maria becomes suspicious of April's attentions to her husband. Things get worse when the mysterious person messaging April reveals that they have proof of her prior indiscretion with a married man, and Elliott drops a bombshell. A midstream shift in perspective turns everything readers thought they knew on its head, ensuring they'll be turning the pages to find out who they can believe. Though not as strong as McFadden's more recent titles, this backlist entry will satisfy readers hungry for more of McFadden's twisty thrillers.
Kirkus Book Review
Character assassination reigns supreme, if not uncontested, in a Long Island suburb. April Masterson loves her husband, corporate attorney Elliott; their 7-year-old, Bobby; and her YouTube channel, "April's Sweet Secrets." What she doesn't love is whoever's texting her warnings about how Bobby isn't really in their backyard while she's busy filming her videos or withering critiques of her baking show or veiled accusations about her past and threats about her present. Her best friend, former prosecutor Julie Bressler, may be bossy and opinionated, but surely she'd never turn on April this way. Who else might know enough to send April goodies like a picture of her kissing Mark Tanner, Bobby's soccer coach? Though April struggles to get Elliot to take her ordeal seriously, even when she shows up at his office for a lunch date, he's protected by his receptionist, Brianna Anderson, whose attachment to her boss goes far beyond loyalty. Then Julie turns on her; Maria Cooper, her friendly new next-door neighbor, turns on her; and in the most mind-boggling scene, Doris Kirkland, April's mother, whose dementia has brought her to a nursing home, turns on her. McFadden releases an escalating series of toxins so deftly into the suburban atmosphere that it's practically an anticlimax when someone gets killed and April instantly becomes the prime suspect. But that's only a setup for the tale's boldest move: switching its narrator from April to a fair-weather friend who frames the whole nightmare in dramatically different terms. As a special gift to her savviest fans, the author throws in an even more jolting epilogue that's as hard to forget as it is to believe. Recommended reading for every paranoid suburbanite who's considering a move to the city, or to the Arctic wilds. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
TextSeries: Thorndike Press large print high octanePublisher: [Farmington Hills, Michigan] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2026Edition: Large print editionDescription: 489 pages (large print) ; 22 cmContent type: