Not That I Could Tell

"Full of slow-burning intrigue, Strawser''s second novel will appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty''s Big Little Lies and Jennifer Kitses'' Small Hours." ΓÇöBooklist

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An innocent night of fun takes a shocking turn in Not That I Could Tell, the next page-turner from Jessica Strawser, author of Almost Missed You.

When a group of neighborhood women gathers, wine in hand, around a fire pit where their backyards meet one Saturday night, most of them are just ecstatic to have discovered that their baby monitors reach that far. ItΓÇÖs a rare kid-free night, and theyΓÇÖre giddy with it. They drink too much, and the conversation turns personal.

By Monday morning, one of them is gone.

Everyone knows something about everyone else in the quirky small Ohio town of Yellow Springs, but no one can make sense of the disappearance. Kristin was a sociable twin mom, college administrator, and doctorΓÇÖs wife who didnΓÇÖt seem all that bothered by her impending divorceΓÇöand the investigation turns up more questions than answers, with her husband, Paul, at the center. For her closest neighbor, Clara, the incident triggers memories she thought sheΓÇÖd put behind herΓÇöand when sheΓÇÖs unable to extract herself from the widening circle of scrutiny, her own suspicions quickly grow. But the neighborhoodΓÇÖs newest addition, Izzy, is determined not to jump to any conclusionsΓÇöespecially since sheΓÇÖs dealing with a crisis of her own.

As the police investigation goes from a media circus to a cold case, the neighbors are forced to reexamine whatΓÇÖs going on behind their own closed doorsΓÇöand to ask how well anyone really knows anyone else.