by Andrea Bartz
First published 2020
Lindsay thought she knew what happened the night her best friend Edie died in 2009. Back then, Edie commanded New York's social scene from their Brooklyn loft at Calhoun Lofts, where a group of recent graduates lived like the city belonged to them. When Edie's body turned up with a suicide note after a night of heavy drinking, the friend group shattered from grief and disbelief. A decade later, Lindsay has rebuilt her life as a magazine fact-checker with a stable apartment and solid friendships. Then a chance encounter leads her to an disturbing video from that blurry night ten years ago. The footage makes Lindsay wonder if Edie was murdered instead of taking her own life. Worse, she begins to suspect she might have played a role in her friend's death. Lindsay digs through case files, old devices, and her own fragmented memories from 2009, forcing herself to face the violence in her past to uncover what really happened to Edie.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: past-haunts-present, unreliable-narrator
Setting: New York, Brooklyn, Calhoun Lofts
Period: 2009, Decade Later
314 pages · Paperback · Ballantine Books
Content warnings: death