Don't You Cry

Don't You Cry

"Riveting psychological thriller." —Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author "Wickedly smart page-turner about the razor thin line between suspicion and obsession"—Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl and Pretty Baby, Mary Kubica returns with an electrifying and addictive tale of deceit and obsession. In downtown Chicago, a young woman named Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her friend and roommate Quinn Collins to wonder where Esther is and whether or not she's the person Quinn thought she knew. Meanwhile, in a small Michigan harbor town an hour outside Chicago, a mysterious woman appears in the quiet coffee shop where eighteen-year-old Alex Gallo works as a dishwasher. He is immediately drawn to her charm and beauty, but what starts as an innocent crush quickly spirals into something far more dark and sinister than he ever expected. As Quinn searches for answers about Esther, and Alex is drawn further under the stranger's spell, master of suspense Mary Kubica takes readers on a taut and twisted thrill ride that builds to a stunning conclusion and shows that no matter how fast and far we run, the past always catches up with us in the end. More Praise "Kubica's powerful debut…will encourage comparisons to Gone Girl."—Publishers Weekly, starred review on THE GOOD GIRL Read the New York Times bestselling novels that everyone are talking about, The Good Girl and Pretty Baby, by Mary Kubica! Order your copies today! Twentysomething Quinn is awakened from a hangover one Sunday at 6:00 a.m. by her roommate Esther's blaring alarm clock. Esther's window is open (odd during a Chicago winter), but Quinn becomes concerned about her roommate's absence only when she selfishly craves the breakfast Esther usually brings her after church. The police aren't worried yet, but Quinn enlists the help of her cute coworker Ben to help find out where her roommate might be. They uncover clues that lead to Quinn suspecting Esther of murder—is Quinn next on her roommate's death list? Meanwhile, an hour up the coast of Lake Michigan, 18-year-old Alex has given up a college scholarship to wash dishes at a diner in order to care for his father, an alcoholic. When he notices a mysterious, beautiful girl in his restaurant, he befriends her, hoping for a romance. Told in alternating voices, Alex's and Quinn's separate mysteries combine in a surprising way. Readers will immediately sense that Quinn might be an unreliable narrator, but the author doesn't make the puzzle easy to solve. The unexpected twist at the end will be a bombshell for most readers. VERDICT The young main characters and the resemblance to Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train ensure that this psychological thriller by the best-selling author of The Good Girl will be a hit with teen fans of the genre.—Sarah Hill, Lake Land College, Mattoon, IL "Single White Female on steroids.... Mary Kubica is a must-read." -Lisa Scottoline "Don't You Cry, an artfully crafted, wickedly smart page-turner about the razor thin line between suspicion and obsession, will keep you glued to its pages-and guessing wrong about who to trust-until its breathless ending." -Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Where They Found Her "Following her smash hits The Good Girl and Pretty Baby, the Chicago-based master of thrills concocts the perfect suspense page-turner with a missing woman, a mysterious bombshell, and twists that will make you tweet, "OMG."" -Buzzfeed "Mary Kubica has a knack for crafting engrossing psychological thrillers, and Don't You Cry is no exception." -InStyle "Readers take a sinister tour of family and personal dynamics in this tortuous, well-tempered novel of suspense." -Bookpage "Don't You Cry will leave you guessing until the very last page as two strangers' stories unfold in this riveting tale of deception and passion." -PopSugar "Don't You Cry [is] a suspense-packed novel plumbing the psychology of both narrators, and a book ending with a twist every bit as mind-boggling as the one in The Good Girl." -The Huffington Post "Kubica, a writer of vice-like control, keeps the temperature of her prose near freezing." -Chicago Tribune "The twists and turns will keep readers guessing right up to the conclusion." -Booklist "A master of suspense...Kubica still leads the pack when it comes to her genre." – Kirkus Reviews Mary Kubica is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of THE GOOD GIRL and PRETTY BABY. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in History and American Literature. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband and two children and enjoys photography, gardening and caring for the animals at a local shelter.