Two Little Girls in Blue

How it reads

Two Little Girls in Blue is mystery (family mystery thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in a suburban setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are family, secrets and loss and grief. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 416 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.