by Kate White
Thank you, too, to the amazing group I get to work with at Harper Perennial: Amy Baker, VP and associate publisher; Robin Bilardello, art director; the relentless Theresa Dooley, senior publicist; Lisa Erickson, director of marketing; Stacey Fischkelta, the kickass production editorial manager; my fabulous, spectacular editor Emily Griffin, who I thank the gods for every day; and Emily’s terrific assistant, Amber Oliver.
I’d like to also express my gratitude to my great agent, Sandy Dijkstra, and the lovely team I work with at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency: Elise, Andrea, Thao, and Jessica.
And then there’s my wonderful home team: Isabel DaSilva, social media director, and Laura Nicolassy, my web editor. I couldn’t ask for two more talented people.
I want to give a huge shout-out to my kids, Hunter Holbrook and Hayley Holbrook. They read this book late in the game when it was in galley format and while we were celebrating the holidays in Uruguay. They stayed up so late reading and tore through the book in days, which made me feel awesome. I’m so lucky to have them as my kids. And thanks to Hayley, too, for being my incredible trailer creator. Xoxo
Lastly, I want to say thanks to my wonderful readers, who are kind enough to check in with me regularly on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and katewhite.com; share their thoughts about life and books and more; and also review my books on Goodreads, BookBub, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon. I love hearing from you!!
About the Author
KATE WHITE, former editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, is the New York Times bestselling author of the standalone psychological thrillers The Secrets You Keep, The Wrong Man, Eyes on You, Hush, and The Sixes, as well as eight Bailey Weggins mysteries, including Such a Perfect Wife. White is also the author of several popular career books for women, including The Gutsy Girl Handbook: Your Manifesto for Success and I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: How to Ask for the Money, Snag the Promotion, and Create the Career You Deserve, as well as the editor of The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook. She lives in New York City.
You can contact her at katewhite.com.
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Praise for the Novels of Kate White
Such a Perfect Wife
“What’s not to love in Kate White’s latest? . . . Such a Perfect Wife is deep and dark and twisty, and packed with a delicious array of questionable characters, each harboring their own secrets.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Intricately plotted. . . . [An] intense page-turner that never lets up.”
—Library Journal, starred review and “Pick of the Month”
“Intrepid—and stylish!—crime reporter Bailey Weggins finds herself on the front line of a murder investigation. . . . Fun and fast-paced. . . . Bailey is fearless, determined, and always fashionable. A grown-up Nancy Drew for grown-up girl detectives.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Highly entertaining. . . . The ethical and tenacious Bailey soon earns the respect of the local police, who come to see her as an ally rather than an intruder. Readers will cheer her every step of the way.”
—Publishers Weekly
“An always-entertaining series.”
—Booklist
Even If It Kills Her
“A titillating novel of secrecy and suspense, Even If It Kills Her will have you hanging on every word.”
—Bustle.com
“A twisty mystery full of clues and red herrings that are hard to distinguish between. This makes for a very thrilling read. The end is a surprise, and most readers will gasp at the unveiling of the real killer.”
—Bookreporter.com
“White builds suspense masterfully, and this seventh in the Bailey Weggins series has the makings of another hit. Bailey is a smart, sexy sleuth, and her exploits make for thoroughly entertaining reading.”
—Booklist
The Secrets You Keep
“A psychological thriller that doubles as a cautionary tale, The Secrets You Keep marks another success for a prolific author and casts an intelligent if grim eye on love—love that can warm, and love that can burn.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“True to form, Kate White’s The Secrets You Keep kept me up way past my bedtime, anxiously turning the pages. Taut, tense, and utterly gripping, I could not go to sleep until I found out whodunit.”
—Jessica Knoll, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive
“Suspenseful, twisty, and sharply observed, Kate White’s clever psychological thriller lures us into the life of vulnerable narrator Bryn whose marriage is not what she thought it was. The uncertainty develops as the stakes ramp up ever higher, and I was holding my breath as I turned the last few pages.”
—Gilly Macmillan, New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew
The Wrong Man
“A juicy beach book: a thriller with a smart female main character.”
—People
“This is a must-have summer read and an enjoyable whodunit.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Breezy. . . . An intriguing heroine who holds her own.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Eyes on You
“[A] delicious tale.”
—New York Post
“A smart, sexy sleuth with a growing fan base.”
—Booklist
“Sharp as a stiletto! White captures the cut-throat world of entertainment TV where the latest star should trust no one if she’s to build her show . . . or save her very life.”
—Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author
The Sixes
“You won’t be able to put it down; just remember to reapply your sunscreen every so often.”
—Harper’s Bazaar, Labor Day Weekend “Must Reads”
“This is the perfect book to take on a transatlantic flight to Europe. Trust me, I just did it. . . . A fast-paced plot that wraps itself up in time for you to race to the bathroom before the plane starts its descent.”
—Vanity Fair
“A coed’s gone missing at leafy Lyle College, and visiting prof Phoebe Hall is asking too many questions. A nifty spine-tingler.”
—People
“A terrifying psychological thriller that takes ‘mean girls’ to a whole new level of creepy.”
—Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Live Wire
Hush
“A real page-turner.”
—Today show
“A sharp-edged thriller. . . . Sexy suspense.”
—New York Daily News
“Kate White places her wily heroine in a real jam, then keeps her, as well as readers, asking ‘Whodunit?’ right up till the gripping finale.”
—Sandra Brown, author of Rainwater
Also by Kate White
FICTION
If Looks Could Kill
A Body to Die For
Till Death Do Us Part
Over Her Dead Body
Lethally Blond
Hush
The Sixes
Eyes on You
The Wrong Man
So Pretty It Hurts
The Secrets You Keep
Even If It Kills Her
Such a Perfect Wife
NONFICTION
Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do
I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: How to Ask for the Money, Snag the
Promotion, and Create the Career You Deserve
The Gutsy Girl Handbook: Your Manifesto for Success
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Digital Edition APRIL 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-274748-8
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Print ISBN: 978-0-06-274747-1
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