#ReadThis #GirlsLikeUs by #CristinaAlger @PutnamBooks
It's not who you know, it's WHOM YOU KNOW and we know The Banker's Wife, which was absolutely stellar and we highly recommended it last week:
We still have high hopes for The Trader's Husband. Maybe Peachy will write it.
Perhaps we will check out her other books also. Though she has written more than just these two books and we believe we saw she is also coming out with a new one this year, Cristina Alger is having a sophomore act with Girls Like Us.
If you don't know what we're talking about with our word choice and verbiage, perhaps you didn't have Mover and Shaker Rennie McQuilkin in 10th and 11th grade who drilled all the SAT words into you. Quite nicely! They have STUCK in a big way, right MsCLP? We must say on page 9 it should be: "whom I called Pop" because WHO is a blooper and a cardinal sin here. Mr. McQuilkin is God of all English everything and a publisher himself.
Taking place in New York's Long Island, Girls Like Us is about murder and intrigue involving Nell, who is supposed to be in both physical recovery and mourning but finds herself mired in the tale of a Jeffrey Epstein twin. The title might not be what you think it is-you don't want to be in a group of victims of murder!
Here's what we liked about this book:
*How can you not like a book that starts with a cooler of Guinness on the first page?
*Cristina has excellent taste in alcohol. Macallan is referenced many times starting on page 11 we believe.
*The pace of the book is snappy and the plot evolves at a good pace.
Polaroid pictures, corruption, offshore bank accounts, and connecting the dots are hallmarks of what makes this story unique. Do you ever really know someone! Worth a read, check out Girls Like Us.
With last summer’s national bestseller, The Banker’s Wife, Cristina Alger offered readers an exciting glimpse into the world of international finance and, with it, reestablished herself as a fresh new voice in the thriller genre. The novel earned praise from the likes of Lee Child, Nelson DeMille, Chris Pavone, Mary Kubica, and more. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and must-read summer thriller from the New York Post, Entertainment Weekly, and Parade, the novel is currently in development as a limited TV series by the team behind Homeland and starring Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl).
Now, Alger brings that same knack for high stakes thrills and sinuous suspense to one of PopSugar, Crime Reads, and PureWow’s most anticipated books of the summer, GIRLS LIKE US (G. P. Putnam’s Sons; July 2, 2019), which centers on the investigation of three grisly murders on Long Island, inspired by the real-life Gilgo Beach murders; introduces an unforgettable new heroine in FBI Agent Nell Flynn; and raises an impossible question: What happens when the primary suspect is your own father?
FBI Agent Nell Flynn hasn’t been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was brutally murdered when Nell was just seven. When her father dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house she grew up in so that she can spread his ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father’s partner, Detective Lee Davis, Nell becomes involved in an investigation into the murders of two young Latina women in Suffolk County. The further Nell digs, the more likely it seems to her that her father should be the prime suspect—and that his friends on the police force are covering his tracks. Plagued by doubts about her mother’s murder and her own role in exonerating her father in that case, Nell can't help but ask questions about who killed Ria Sandoval and Adriana Marques and why. But she may not like the answers she finds—not just about those she loves, but about herself.
Set between the dark underbelly of Long Island’s South Shore and the elite circles of the Hamptons—a place Alger knows well as a part-time Quogue resident—GIRLS LIKE US is sure to be one of this summer’s must-read thrillers, confirming Cristina Alger’s place as a thriller writer to watch in the tradition of Harlan Coben and John Grisham.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cristina Alger is the author of The Banker's Wife, The Darlings, and This Was Not the Plan. A graduate of Harvard College and NYU Law School, she worked as a financial analyst and a corporate attorney before becoming a writer. She lives in New York City with her husband and children.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
GIRLS LIKE US by Cristina Alger
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
ISBN: 9780525535805
eBook ISBN: 9780525535812
