BOTM Monday: Like Mother, Like Daughter

Author: Kimberly McCreight
Title: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 07/30/2024

Read Dates: 08/11/2024/- 08/13/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

This was my Book of the Month club pick for August. 

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a multi POV thriller. It focuses on Katrina, a high powered legal “fixer” who has gone missing, and her daughter Cleo, an NYU student who discovers the scene and begins a search for her mom. It shifts from Katrina’s POV in the days before her disappearance and Cleo’s POV in the hours/days following.

I really enjoyed this one, it might be one of my favorite thrillers I’ve read this year! I loved the shifting timelines and POV, and finding out more about the two main characters as the story progressed. Definitely kept me guessing and even when I had an idea of who the villain was, I was still guessing at the why

A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this thriller.

When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened.

But what? The polar opposite of Cleo, whose “out of control” emotions and “unsafe” behavior have created a seemingly unbridgeable rift between mother and daughter, Kat is the essence of Park Slope perfection: a happily married, successful corporate lawyer. Or so Cleo thinks.

Kat has been lying. She’s not just a lawyer; she’s her firm’s fixer. She’s damn good at it, too. Growing up in a dangerous group home taught her how to think fast, stay calm under pressure, and recognize a real threat when she sees one. And in the days leading up her disappearance, Kat has become aware of multiple threats: demands for money from her unfaithful soon-to-be ex-husband; evidence that Cleo has slipped back into a relationship that’s far riskier than she understands; and menacing anonymous messages from her past—all of which she’s kept hidden from Cleo . . .

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a thrilling novel of emotional suspense that questions the damaging fictions we cling to and the hard truths we avoid. Above all, it’s a love story between a mother and a daughter, each determined to save the other before it’s too late.