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    Best Friends Forever

    By Margot Hunt

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    Best Friends Forever is a dark domestic thriller that explores how powerful the friendships that women form can be, and how devastating it is when those friendships fall apart.Margot Hunt is the pseudonym for critically-acclaimed women's fiction author Whitney Gaskell who has also publishedseveral Young Adult books as Piper Banks.

    How well do you really know your best friend?

    Kat Grant and Alice Campbell have a friendship forged in shared confidences and long lunches lubricated by expensive wine. Though they're very different women – the artsy socialite and the struggling suburbanite – they're each other's rocks. But even rocks crumble under pressure. Like when Kat's financier husband Howard plunges to his death from the second–floor balcony of their South Florida mansion.

    Howard was a jerk, a drunk, a bully and, police say, a murder victim. The questions begin piling up. Like why Kat has suddenly gone dark: no calls, no texts and no chance her wealthy family will let Alice see her. Why investigators are looking so hard in Alice's direction. Who stands to get hurt next. And who is the cool liar – the masterful manipulator behind it all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateFeb 1, 2018
    ISBN9781489248824
    Author

    Margot Hunt

    Margot Hunt is theUSA TODAY best selling author of FOR BETTER AND WORSE and BEST FRIENDSFOREVER.  Her newest book, THE LAST AFFAIR, will be released by MIRA inNovember 2019.

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    • 1/5
      This was slightly above one star; I rounded down. There were a few typos and unrelated-to-the-plot continuity errors (the age of her children) but the story itself wasn't great. I finished it to know how it ends, but I figured it out halfway through (maybe earlier). I was hoping for a twist or a surprise, but nothing. The author seemed to try to want to be Peter Swanson or Megan Abbott, but did not succeed. There were at least 200 pages of unnecessary filler and the procedural part seemed not well researched.
    • 4/5
      Kat Grant is an artsy socialite. Alice Campbell is a struggling suburbanite. But these two women are best friends. So when Kat's husband, Howard, falls to his death from the second floor balcony of their mansion, Alice will be there for her. Howard wasn't a nice person. He was abusive, he was arrogant, a drunk, and according to police he was a murder victim. But Alice can't get a hold of Kat - no calls, no texts, and her wealthy family will not let Alice near their daughter. This book kept me up into the early hours of the morning when I was already exhausted. That's a sign of a good book! Kat and Alice were real. They were interesting and frustrating. These two have lots of layers. We go back and forth from present day to three years ago when Alice and Kat first met. Great writing. Suspenseful. I did figure out a big part early on, which I'm no good at doing, so I don't know if that's why I felt underwhelmed with the ending or if there was a bit much going on or maybe it's a combination of both. But overall this was a compelling read that I wish I had've read sooner!
    • 4/5
      Sometimes you pair the perfect book with the perfect place to read that book. Last month I was lucky enough to have a few hours to sit on a warm Florida beach and soak up the sun, so I brought along a new book to read- Margot Hunt's Best Friends Forever. Three hours later, I finally looked up and took a breath, having finished the book. (Thank goodness I used plenty of sunscreen.)Alice Campbell is making breakfast, getting her son and daughter ready for school, when two policemen ring her doorbell. They have questions for Alice about the death of her friend Kat's husband, Howard.Howard had fallen to his death from the balcony of his and Kat's mansion. Everyone assumed it was a drunken accident, until the police came knocking. They asked Alice to come down to the station to talk about Kat and Howard.Kat came from a wealthy family, and owned an art gallery on Worth Avenue, a fancy shopping district in West Palm Beach, Florida. Alice met Kat at JFK airport where she was waiting out a delayed flight to their new home in Jupiter. Kat bought Alice a martini and they bonded.They became fast friends, even though their economic circumstances weren't exactly compatible. Alice and her husband Todd disliked Howard upon first meeting him. He was obnoxious, and condescending and rude to his wife in front them. The story jumps back and forth in time, from the present, with Kat refusing to answer any of Alice's texts or phone calls, to three years before when the ladies meet and begin spending all their free time together, even taking girls' weekend vacations together on Kat's dime.Todd and Alice run into financial troubles and Kat helps them out. Then Kat confides in Alice that Howard is physically abusive to her, in addition to the emotional abuse that Alice has witnessed.As the police investigation proceeds, it is clear that Alice doesn't know everything about her best friend Kat. The suspense builds quickly as the police decide that Alice knows more than she has told them, and she has to use her wits to figure what happened before it's too late for her.Best Friends Forever is a terrific suspense novel, one that fans of Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies will really enjoy. Like Moriarty, Hunt punctuates the day-to-day domestic life with a puzzle of a mystery to be solved. Also like Moriarty, Hunt sprinkles in a few clues that clever readers may be able to pick up on that help solve the mystery, and even though I thought I knew where it was going, the ending still caused me to gasp out loud. Suspense lovers should put Best Friends Forever on their TBR list, maybe for a long airplane trip. It will make the time fly by. (Just be careful who you talk to at the airport.)
    • 5/5
      I love that this book was an easy to read psychological thriller / mystery. A lot of mysteries are so full of crap to keep straight that it does me in and I never want to read another for a good long while but not this one.Kat and Alice become friends after meeting in an airport due to a long layover. Two very different woman who learn to lean on each through thick and thin until one day when Kat's unfavorable husband, Howard, drunkingly falls off the balcony and Kat disappears. The questions pile up but the book doesn't end before we get some answers.
    • 4/5
      How well do we know our friends - how about our best friend in the whole world, the one we share everything with - even more than we share with our husband and family. How well do we really know them??Kat and Alice meet in an airport when their flight to Florida is delayed. They hit it off over drinks and get together for lunch after they get home. They are two VERY different people - Alice is a stay at home mom with 2 kids and a husband that she isn't getting along with well, she was a college professor but quit to stay home and she and her husband are struggling with bills. She doesn't really have any good friends - just acquaintances from her kids school functions and really is at a place in her life that she needs a best friend. Kat is multi-rich. Her father is well known all over Florida, she has a daughter in medical school and a husband that she says she doesn't love. She also seems to have no friends but doesn't act at first like that really bothers her. As the novel begins, the police come to Alice's front door to question her about the death of Kat's husband. She thought it had been an accident but the police seemed to think that it was a homicide and Alice was their main suspect. As Alice gets pulled further into the crime, Kat is refusing to return phone calls and texts and Alice begins to wonder how much she really knows her best friend. The novel is told in alternating chapters - one is present day and one traces the evolution of the friendship between Kat and Alice. The way it is written with the alternating chapters makes the book even more suspenseful and kept me turning pages to see what the real story was in this friendship.This is a great read and even if you think you have things figured out early on, don't be too sure that you do because there's lots of twists and turns.Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own.
    • 3/5
      Three and a half star rating.A chance meeting throws the serious, plodding Alice with rich, enigmatic Kat and they are soon best of friends or are they? This book kept me gripped from start to finish, but the ending was a huge disappointment and had expected something better after that build up. The women weren't exactly nice and neither were their husbands - huge streaks of selfishness running through all four of them. What lively Kat actually saw in mundane Alice is a mystery in itself! An easy read, great for holidays.
    • 3/5
      It’s an ok book. Predictable with one dimensional characters and a lot of cliches. The last chapter was meant to be a shocker but it didn’t add anything to the story, you could guess the ending from very early on the book.
    • 4/5
      Another great book from this author. Really good stuff. Great characters. This one had my interest as it features a sociopath who betrayed, backstabbed, lied to and was overall a complete fraud to her best friend. Going to give her third book a go.