This is a fun, quick, fairly light mystery/suspense novel that is perfect to get you out of any reading slump you might find yourself in.
Three women, one man. (Maybe you’re not supposed to know that it’s one man right away, but the title of the book alludes to that anyway.)
Holly has been married to Jack for almost twenty years, has three children with him, and has both a private pediatric practice and a successful horse charity. Jessica is a doctor who gives up an important residency to follow her fiancé Jonathan to Chicago to help him run his amazing nonprofit that promises to diagnoses pediatric cancer years before anything else out there. And Lark is a game developer in Los Angeles, who has a whirlwind romance and business relationship with Trip, a private investor she meets at an airport bar.
You have to suspend disbelief a little bit (maybe a lot) for any of this to work — in my mind, there are just too many questions about Jack/Jon/Trip and the three women are all called out as being very intelligent — but if you take this book at face value, the build up to the conclusion is a lot of fun. The end is a bit quick — I think I would have liked it to have lasted a bit longer and seen more of it come together than just heard about it through a phone call, but it did keep the fast pace of this book moving, so I’m thinking the author specifically made the decision to write it this way.
Again, this isn’t great literature, but it’s a fun bit of suspense, and I definitely recommend it.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing in exchange for my honest review. It did not influence my opinion.