A Better World Audiobook

One of NPRs Best Books of 2024

For fans of Nightbitch and While No One Is Watching comes one of the best books this year or any year Paul Tremblay author of The Cabin at the End of the Worlda disturbing dystopian thrillfest about a woman moving to a glittering town of the future whose investigation of a local tragedy puts a target on her back

Youll be safe here

Thats what the tour guide promises Dr Linda Farmer and her family when they move to Plymouth Valley Sure the locals are privileged hot house flowers who observe a weird religion Hollow but the schools are blue ribbon the airs clean the foods fantastic and Lindas out of options With the outside world in shambles this move is her familys last chance

Linda her husband and their teen twins work hard to fit in accommodating their square peg personalities into rounded holes It works at firstthe family rise up gaining acceptance from the powerful elite Then Linda encounters Gal Parker a hot mess of a woman whose wife has abandoned her and whose kids are sick One terrible night Gal commits an unthinkable act

All of Plymouth Valley turns on Gal refusing to speak her name But Linda cant stop wondering what would drive a woman to do something so awful The more she learns the more frightened she becomes A clock is ticking toobefore the Plymouth Valley Winter Festival Lindas got to figure out should she and her family be fighting to stay or fighting their way out

A heartpoundingly ruthless dissection of wealth power and privilege A Better World is more terrifying with every turn of the page Booklist starred review from a writer who never ceases to amaze Gillian Flynn