Thoughts: This was our book club pick a couple months ago that I forgot to read and has been sitting on my shelf until a rainy weekend caused me to finally pick it up. Two strangers sit next to each other at a bar before their flight from London to Boston, and takes you on a ride of about 50 twist and turns from there. It starts off with a casual question about drink preferences and by the time they land at Logan Airport they have a plan to kill Teds’ wife and the man she’s having an affair with. The first half is mainly background info on the characters and was a little slow for me, but the second half is just about as non stop as you can get and definitely made up for the first.
Summary: On a night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner. Sharing one too many martinis, the strangers begin to play a game of truth, revealing very intimate details about themselves. Ted talks about his marriage that’s going stale and his wife Miranda, who he’s sure is cheating on him. Ted and his wife were a mismatch from the start—he the rich businessman, she the artistic free spirit—a contrast that once inflamed their passion, but has now become a cliché.
But their game turns a little darker when Ted jokes that he could kill Miranda for what she’s done. Lily, without missing a beat, says calmly, “I’d like to help.” After all, some people are the kind worth killing, like a lying, stinking, cheating spouse. . . .
Back in Boston, Ted and Lily’s twisted bond grows stronger as they begin to plot Miranda’s demise. But there are a few things about Lily’s past that she hasn’t shared with Ted, namely her experience in the art and craft of murder, a journey that began in her very precocious youth.
Suddenly these co-conspirators are embroiled in a chilling game of cat-and-mouse, one they both cannot survive . . . with a shrewd and very determined detective on their tail.