Publication Date May 5, 2020

“Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent”? Sign me up! Kimberly McCreight, author of Reconstructing Amelia, has written another one of those books you start reading and CANNOT STOP. I loved it. Harper Collins and NetGalley provided me with a copy of A Good Marriage in return for this honest review, and I’m super grateful!

Lizzie Kitsakis is an attorney at a high-powered law firm in New York, having given up a job she loved as a federal prosecutor. She has an unemployed husband whose drinking has led to them getting into financial trouble, and she basically sold out to join this firm. Working late one night, she gets a call from an old law school buddy, Zach Grayson, who has landed in Rikers Island, accused of murdering his wife Amanda. Zach is sort of the Mark Zuckerberg type, having gotten insanely wealthy in tech, and although Lizzie hasn’t been in touch with him for years, she agrees to help him.

Zach and Amanda live in Brooklyn and are linked with a whole group of parents who all send their kids to the Brooklyn Country Day School, where some hacking has led to all sorts of juicy information getting out, and huge fears that the truth about the group’s members’ “leisure activities” and intermingling will be revealed. Marriages that seem rock solid aren’t, and others really are, even if they might not always LOOK like it. Lizzie explores all the relationships at the same time she is looking at her OWN marriage.

Lots of juicy plot twists and interesting characters. I think fans of both Big Little Lies and Presumed Innocent really would enjoy this, and it would make a great miniseries. Great escapist reading, perfect for pandemic-forgetting. Four stars.