Like Mother, Like Daughter

This was excellent. It’s a mother-daughter story. Highly bingeable, deeply satisfying! Cleo is a student at NYU. Her relationship with her overbearing, perfect mother (Kat) is rocky at best, but when she arrives at her childhood home in Brooklyn for dinner, she knows that something terrible has happened. Food is burning in the oven, there is a puddle of blood on the floor… her mother is missing. As Cleo races to figure out what’s happened to her mother, we alternate between her POV and her mother’s POV (leading up to the disappearance). Cleo uncovers secrets about her mother. She isn’t the patents lawyer she claimed to be, but rather a fixer for her legal firm with unconventional tactics. She grew up in a dangerous group home and has a lot of secrets. And the worst part: her parents are separated but neither wanted to tell her. Everyone is a suspect. Was it Cleo’s drug-dealing ex-boyfriend? Could it be Kat’s philandering husband (also Cleo’s father?). This one really kept me on my toes, I absolutely loved it!