A Good Marriage: A Novel

Kimberly McCreight

May 2020 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Sarah Zimmerman, Karissa Vacker, and George Newbern

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Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent in this “irresistible domestic drama” (Washington Post) from the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman’s brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples make—and the secrets they keep—in order to stay together.

Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they’d be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Until recently, she’d been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. That job and her brilliant, devoted husband Sam—she had everything she’d ever wanted. And then, suddenly, it all fell apart. 

No. That’s a lie. It wasn’t sudden, was it? Long ago the cracks in Lizzie’s marriage had started to show. She was just good at averting her eyes. 

The last thing Lizzie needs right now is a call from an inmate at Rikers asking for help—even if Zach Grayson is an old friend. But Zach is desperate: his wife, Amanda, has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs in their Brooklyn brownstone. And Zach’s the primary suspect. 

As Lizzie is drawn into the dark heart of idyllic Park Slope, she learns that Zach and Amanda weren’t what they seemed—and that their friends, a close-knit group of fellow parents at the exclusive Brooklyn Country Day school, might be protecting troubling secrets of their own. In the end, she’s left wondering not only whether her own marriage can be saved, but what it means to have a good marriage in the first place.

Ratings and reviews

This domestic thriller revolves around two marriages and a dead wife. Told from the perspectives of Lizzie and Amanda (the dead wife, prior to her death) the author weaves an intriguing and twisted story of the lives of these couples. With plot twists and turns throughout, the author reveals all of the dark secrets and lies that people tell one another as well as themselves to try to create the perfect marriage. The results are not only riddled with patched up imperfections, but ultimately the death of the marriage and in the case of Amanda’s marriage, murder. This is a fantastic murder mystery filled with drama and surprises that kept me turning the pages and guessing until the very end.

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About the author

Kimberly McCreight is the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, which was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Alex Awards; Where They Found Her; and The Outliers young adult trilogy. She attended Vassar College and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.