Eight Books About Friendships Turned Deadly
Not all friendships last forever. It can hurt when a friendship ends, but it is a normal part of life. Sometimes, however, the end of a friendship is more than merely painful: it’s downright dangerous. This is especially the case in thrillers like the ones below, which show how lies, jealousy, and murder can fracture even the strongest of friendships. If you want suspense thrillers that will make you look at all your friends with suspicion, these are the books for you!
The books in this article all feature women who are—or pretend to be or believe themselves to be—the very best of friends. Somewhere along the line, however, something goes horribly, irreparably wrong. A few of these friendships started out sweet and turned sour, while others were lethally toxic from the get-go. Either way, you will be fascinated by the way their relationships—and multiple lives—get ripped to shreds.
When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she’s determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. First, she needs to get her daughter settled into a new school-one of the most exclusive in the city. Next, she’s going to get back the high-flying criminal barrister career she sacrificed for marriage ten years earlier. But nothing goes quite as planned. The school is not very welcoming newcomers, her daughter hasn’t made any friends yet and the other mothers are as fiercely competitive as their children. Sadie immediately finds herself on the outside as she navigates the fraught politics of the school gate.
But the tide starts to turn as Sadie begins to work on a scandalous, high-profile case that’s the perfect opportunity to prove herself again, even though a dangerous flirtation threatens to cloud her professional judgment. And when Liza, queen of the school moms, befriends Sadie, she draws her into the heart of the world from which she was previously excluded. Soon Sadie and her family start to thrive, but does this close new friendship prevent her from seeing the truth? Sadie may be keeping her friends close, but what she doesn’t know is that her enemies are closer still…
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Eileen Gonzalez is a freelance writer from Connecticut. She has a Master’s degree in communications and years of experience writing about pop culture. She contributes to Book Riot and Foreword Reviews, and she occasionally tweets at @eileen2thestars.