What is Christina Kovac reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Christina Kovac, author of Watch Us Fall.

Her entry begins:

I am re-reading Crooks by Lou Berney. I read an advanced copy last summer before the crime novel published in September. I’m a huge Lou Berney fan since his November Road blew me away in 2018. Then I went back and read The Long and Faraway Gone, which was so beautiful to me, all his books are. I tend to reread loved books when I’m really stressed—and it’s my pub week, so I’m really, really stressed! It’s relaxing to hear the music of his prose and feel the way he eases you into his character’s psyche. It’s my therapy.

The reason I picked up this particular Lou Berney book again: it’s a really insightful look at families and crime, and...[read on]

About Watch Us Fall, from the publisher:

“A stunning work of suspense that’s impossible to put down. Christina Kovac masterfully combines a twisty missing person mystery, a heartbreaking love story, and an insightful exploration of the nature of obsession and trauma. I loved this novel.” —Angie Kim, New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls and Miracle Creek

Lucy and her three best friends share a glamorous but decaying house in the heart of Georgetown. They call themselves “the Sweeties” and live an idyllic post-grad lifestyle complete with exciting jobs, dramatic love lives, and, most importantly, each other.

But when Addie, the group’s queen bee, discovers that her ex-boyfriend Josh has gone missing, the Sweeties’ worlds are turned upside down. In the days leading up to his disappearance, Josh, a star investigative journalist from a prominent political family, was behaving erratically—and Lucy is determined to find out why. All four friends upend their lives to search for him, but detectives begin to suspect that the Sweeties might know more than they’re letting on.

As the investigation unfolds, Lucy’s obsession with the case reaches a boiling point, and with it, her own troubling secrets begin bubbling to the surface of her carefully curated life. A thrilling account of the lies and delusions that lurk beneath cloistered groups of female friends and the sinister realities of celebrity, Watch Us Fall is a gripping mystery and an examination of the things we tell ourselves when we can’t face the truth.

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