by Lisa Lutz
First published 2016
Tanya DuBois becomes the prime suspect when her husband dies in an accident. She runs. As Tanya drives away from her old life, we learn she has never been real. Neither were Amelia Keen, Debra Maze, Emma Lark, Sonia Lubovich, or the girl called Jo. She adopts false identities like discarded clothes. When she becomes Amelia and meets Blue, another woman hiding from her past, Tanya thinks she has found someone who understands. But their secrets collide as deaths multiply around them. Tanya sheds personas so often that even she loses track of who she really is. The people in her life cannot tell who they are dealing with. Only by confronting what she has fled can she discover not just who she was, but who she might become. Lutz flips the thriller format, asking not who committed the crime but who we are beneath our masks.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: identity-crisis, unreliable-narrator
400 pages · Paperback · Titan Books
Content warnings: death