MFA from Syracuse University. She is the author of the adult suspense novels The Split and Friends and Liars, the young adult thrillers Before We Were Sorry (originally published as See All the Stars), All Eyes on Us, I Killed Zoe Spanos, Very Bad People, and The Reunion, and the poetry collection A Small Rising Up in the Lungs.
[The Page 69 Test: See All the Stars; Writers Read: Kit Frick (August 2018)]
At CrimeReads Frick tagged "six thrillers set on college campuses, or reuniting a group of college friends." One title on the list:
Kimberly McCreight, Friends Like TheseRead about another novel on the list.
During a weekend trip to a luxe vacation spot in New York’s Catskills, a group of six college friends, now in their early thirties, gather to save one of their own from the clutches of addiction—and run up against the past. It’s been ten years since the shocking suicide of their Vassar College classmate, Alice, but her death still haunts them—and binds them together.
Flash forward to the end of the weekend, and Detective Julia Scutt has been called to investigate a car crash in the woods. One of the friends is dead, another missing, and no one is telling the truth. “Best friends are supposed to stand by you, no matter what,” asserts the unidentified narrator of the novel’s prologue. “But close friends can also let you get away with too much. And what feels like total acceptance, what masquerades as unconditional love, can turn toxic.”
This is one of my favorites of Kimberly McCreight’s, and I’m looking forward to the TV adaptation.
Friends Like These is among Leah Konen's six scintillating friends-to-frenemies thrillers and Megan Collins's seven thrillers in which friendships are threatened.
--Marshal Zeringue
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