For Better and Worse

Criminal defense lawyer Natalie Clarke, the heroine of this page-turner from Hunt (Best Friends Forever), longs for the days when her worst problem was figuring out whether her husband, Will, was cheating. But a possibly straying spouse has slid in priority following the news rocking the previously placid seaside community of Shoreham, Fla.—that police are investigating Robert Gibbons, the principal of the school attended by the couple’s 11-year-old son, Charlie, after a student’s claim of being molested by Gibbons. And even worse, Nat begins to suspect that the accusation against a man she and Will considered a friend is true, and that Charlie might also be a victim. A murderously angry Nat weighs meting out her own form of justice—with or without Will’s help. Some readers will struggle to suspend disbelief, but others will scarcely mind the improbability of Nat’s murderous scheme as the roller-coaster action takes increasingly wild turns. Psychological suspense fans will be satisfied. Agent: Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary. (Dec.)