The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Anne Hathaway and Jessica ChastainHad me
in its grips from the first page to the astonishing and jaw-dropping ending. -Samantha M.
Bailey USA Today bestselling author of Woman On the EdgeA dark intense domestic thriller
about next-door neighbors whose close friendship is upended by a tragic accident from the
queen of Belgian crime. There is no love like a mother's love. Tiphaine and Laetitia are
inseparable friends who live next door to each other in a tranquil suburb. Their sons born in
the same year grow up together as close as brothers. But when one of the boys is killed in an
accident the mothers' idyllic world shatters. Tiphaine is consumed by grief and bitterness for
her lost son while Laetitia is wracked with guilt. Soon the best friends are barely speaking.
Then mysterious accidents begin to happen to Laetitia's son raising her suspicions. As an
increasingly paranoid Laetitia frantically tries to protect her son from harm the little
civility left between her and Tiphaine curdles into outward hostility. Is Laetitia just
imagining things? Or is Tiphaine secretly conspiring to exact revenge for her loss . . . and if
so who will pay?Translated from the French by Susan Pickford
