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Keep Your Friends Close

By: Lucinda Berry
Narrated by: Candace Fitzgerald, Daniela Acitelli, Leanne Woodward, Stephanie Nemeth Parker
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Publisher's summary

From the bestselling author of The Best of Friends comes a fast-paced thriller about how one woman’s murder unravels the tangled web of lies and deceit connecting a group of Hollywood elite.

When Kiersten McCann, president of the West Hollywood Moms’ Club, turns up dead in her own pool, it quickly becomes clear this wasn’t an accident. And the party guests—all members of the exclusive club—are now key suspects in her murder.

Accusations fly, and three mothers find themselves at the center of the investigation. Whitney, Brooke, and Jade all have heavy secrets to bear…and possible motives for their friend’s murder. But as the police look closer, more secrets, betrayals, and sinister plots are revealed than the women could ever imagine.

With everything at stake, deceit threatens to shatter their illusions of the perfect life. West Hollywood will never be the same.

©2023 by Heather Berry. (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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“Perfect reading for those who wonder: ‘If you couldn’t trust your best friend, could you really trust anyone?’”Kirkus Reviews

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Wow

Wow. What did I just read. I enjoyed it, don’t get me wrong, but I feel like all the twists just got way crazy. Could be a good or bad thing. The writing, like all her books, flowed well and I actually appreciated the past/present style of writing.

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Awful people great story

Such a group of awful people. The best one of the bunch went crazy at the end. #istandwithbrooke Enjoyed the story! Lucinda Berry never lets me down! All narrators were great!

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Not my favorite characters!

Good story. I was not a fan of any of the characters, so it made it hard for me to stay engaged. Ending was very well done!

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Wow

This book has so many twist and turns just as you thought you knew what was gonna happen. Something else happened. Definitely blew my mind. I am recommending this to everybody I know and I hope someday there’s a part two because I would love to know how everything happens with everybody and how it ends up Wow such a great book

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Twists and turns

When you think you solved it all, you’re wrong. I love all the unique character quirks. The twists and turns keep you on the edge of your seat.

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The ending?

I enjoyed this book but the ending left me confused. It just ended without finding out what happened with Brooke, or at the very least Julius.

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HORRIBLE NARRATION

I'm not far into this but I'm having trouble finishing it all because of one of the narrators. I don't know who's doing the voice for "Brooke" but it's unbearable!! She sounds like a computer prompting me to press 1 for English. I don't be listening to any books with this narrator ever again

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Too many characters to follow

It was a good book with a good story I just kept getting confused on all the names 😂. Way too many people to introduce in the beginning and too many names to follow.

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Loved the Writing!

It’s great that this is being compared to Big Little Lies since that is definitely a fav for me BUT Keep Your Friends Close is seriously on a whole new other level than BLL! KYFC allows Lucinda Berry’s amazing writing to shine thru. There is huge anticipation to find out what happened and to then sit back and watch the sh&tshow as the 6 trample over each other. Loved all of it with stellar character development and great twist plot curve at the end!!

Narration was good but somehow cohesiveness never seemed to gel imo.

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Interesting story, terrible narration for some characters

The narrator for the Brooke character was absolutely awful. The story was interesting throughout but came to an abrupt end and didn’t feel complete at all.

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