Such a Good Mom

Author: Julia Spiro Title: Such a Good Mom Publisher: Minotaur Books Date Published: 04/29/2025

Read Dates: 03/12/2025- 03/13/2025
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

Such a Good Mom is a single POV mystery/thriller. Brynn is a new mother struggling to adjust to her changing life, when her husband is arrested for a crime she knows he couldn’t have committed. At least she thinks she knows, she’s not too sure about anything except that she’s just so exhausted and overwhelmed!

This was a great mystery that was also about the struggles of new motherhood. Or maybe it was a book about the struggles of new motherhood that happened to contain a mystery. Either way, I really enjoyed it and flew through it! I’ll definitely be looking for more from this author.

With a healthy newborn baby, a devoted husband, a successful career, and a busy life on Martha’s Vineyard, Brynn Nelson should be the happiest she’s ever been. But Brynn is struggling. Her husband, Ross, grows more distant by the day, and the challenges and exhaustion of postpartum make Brynn feel like she’s slowly losing pieces of herself to motherhood. Pieces that she might never get back.

But it’s summer on the Vineyard, a beacon for wealthy visitors, and a place so beautiful that it seems immune to tragedy and crime. Except for locals, like Brynn, who know all too well that tragedy can strike at any point. And this time, it hits close to home when a friend of the family is found washed ashore. Dead. And Brynn’s already hectic life is turned upside down when Ross is arrested for the crime.

Left reeling with more questions than answers, Brynn’s only path forward is to find out who really killed Cecelia Buckley, even if it means it was her husband. She’s not sure who she’s able to trust anymore. And with dizzying, endless cycle of sleepless nights, diapers, and bottles, Brynn’s not even sure she can trust herself. She’s not sure of anything anymore, but she won’t stop until she finds the truth.