Keep Your Friends Close -- Leah Konen, Paperback

How well do you know your friends?

Isolated and embroiled in a custody battle, Mary is desperate for a friend. So when she meets the charming and enigmatic Willa at a Brooklyn playground, their connection feels fated. But during a margarita-fueled moms' night out, Mary shares her darkest secret about her ex, George, and the next morning Willa simply disappears. No calls, no texts, nothing.

Two months later, Mary's divorce is almost finalized, and she's trying to build a new life for her son in upstate New York. On her first day in town, she runs into Willa . . . only Willa's name is now Annie, and she's got an entirely new family in tow. When George turns up dead and Mary becomes the prime suspect, she has no choice but to turn to her only friend in town: Willa.

As coincidences--and evidence--pile up, Mary begins to wonder whether Willa had something to do with George's death. Is the woman a friend or a foe, a confidante or just a con? Mary must uncover the truth before she loses everything.

Author: Leah Konen
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 02/20/2024
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.75w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780593544723

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2023 pg. 41
Booklist 11/01/2023 pg. 29
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2023

About the Author
Leah Konen is the author of You Should Have Told Me, The Perfect Escape, and All the Broken People and of several young adult novels, including Love and Other Train Wrecks and The Romantics. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied journalism and English literature. She lives in Brooklyn and Saugerties, New York, with her husband; their daughter, Eleanor; and their dog, Farley.