Perhaps it really was unintentional... Maybe Paige Lancaster didn't mean to hit him with a tire iron or to lose it when she was passed over for a promotion. Regardless, she and her young daughter have returned to her hometown to live with her mother. She has to get her anger management under control and she needs to find a way to revive her career. However, life gets in the way when she is unwillingly pulled into joining her daughter's school's Parents Booster Association. On the surface, the group's intentions appear to be noble and they do raise a lot of money, but there is an undercurrent. When one of the elite is murdered, Paige acts as an undercover sleuth and what she finds is troubling.
There is a lot going on in NO REGRETS, a well-crafted story by Kieran Scott. The dynamics of the PBA and the characters' personal lives come together to form a cloud filled with suspicions and fears. Told in the voices of various characters, readers will get to know them quite well. They are a flawed and complex group, to say the least, and all are possible suspects. As the well-plotted and engrossing story rapidly moves along, shocking secrets are revealed. Characters are revealed for who and what they really are. As for the conclusion, it was a total surprise. Highly recommended.
In a fast-paced new novel in the vein of Big Little Lies, a single mom goes undercover to investigate a host of disturbing secrets held by the leaders of a local suburban parent-school association, including embezzlement, bribery, adultery, and murder—by the bestselling author of Wish You Were Gone.
Paige Lancaster, single mom and prodigal daughter, has returned to the East Coast from her prestigious, well-paid job in Los Angeles, writing for the smartest detective series on television. Something terrible happened to her back in Hollywood. Okay, two terrible things, one featuring a misplaced tire iron—and now she’s broke, homeless, and living with her widowed mother and eight-year-old daughter, Izzy, in her Connecticut hometown.
Paige needs to buckle down and find a new writing gig but first, she meets the movers and shakers of Izzy’s school’s Parent Booster Association, run by the intimidatingly gorgeous Ainsley Anderson, who just happens to be married to Paige’s old high school flame, John.
Then she shows up at the annual Parents and Pinot fundraiser, held at Ainsley and John’s dazzling mansion in the toniest part of town, where she’s caught in a compromising position with John, accidentally destroys the guest bathroom, overhears an incriminating conversation, and discovers that her purse has gone missing. And later that night, Ainsley turns up dead at the bottom of her own driveway.
Did she fall? Or was she pushed?
Paige may have only written about detectives, but she is convinced she can handle a little undercover sleuthing. After all, it’ll give her an excuse to spend more time with John. Still, she can’t help but wonder: could he be capable of murder? Or could one of the PBA members have planned a dastardly crime to reach the top? But the most important question of all: will Paige ever get her life back on track?
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