The Accomplice
A Novel
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The Accomplice
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Narrated by:
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Lisa Flanagan
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Written by:
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Lisa Lutz
About this listen
Everyone has the same questions about best friends Owen and Luna: What binds them together so tightly? Why weren’t they ever a couple? And why do people around them keep turning up dead? In this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger, every answer raises a new, more chilling question.
“Masterfully plotted, The Accomplice is both a keep-you-guessing mystery and a keenly and tenderly observed character study.”—Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home
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Owen Mann is charming, privileged, and chronically dissatisfied. Luna Grey is secretive, cautious, and pragmatic. Despite their differences, they form a bond the moment they meet in college. Their names soon become indivisible—Owen and Luna, Luna and Owen—and stay that way even after an unexplained death rocks their social circle.
They’re still best friends years later, when Luna finds Owen’s wife brutally murdered. The police investigation sheds light on some long-hidden secrets, but it can’t penetrate the wall of mystery that surrounds Owen. To get to the heart of what happened and why, Luna has to dig up the one secret she’s spent her whole life burying.
The Accomplice brilliantly examines the bonds of shared history, what it costs to break them, and what happens when you start wondering how well you know the one person who truly knows you.
©2021 Lisa Lutz (P)2021 Random House AudioWhat the critics say
“Lisa Lutz just gets better and better, and . . . The Accomplice may just be her best so far.”—CrimeReads
“There’s no one in crime fiction more inventive than Lisa Lutz, and The Accomplice is her greatest sleight of hand yet. Wry and menacing, with the gravity-defying grace of a skipped stone, The Accomplice is at once a suspenseful thrill ride, a deep and disquieting meditation on friendship, and a Wes Anderson comedy rolled into one. After this, I’d read her grocery list.”—Amy Gentry, bestselling author of Good as Gone and Bad Habits
“Masterfully plotted, The Accomplice is both a keep-you-guessing mystery—like, seriously, I didn’t see any of it coming—and a keenly and tenderly observed character study and portrait of a beautiful friendship complicated by a strange body count that keeps growing around them. I was rooting for Owen and Luna, but murder has a way of testing the bounds of even the tightest of best friends.”—Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home
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- Christie Schipper
- 2023-10-24
Relaxing slow burn kind of book
I have listened to every single thing Lisa Lutz has ever written. This book was a relaxing slow burn. I listened while I did my weekend cooking and cleaning ❤️ there was nothing outstanding in this book and it won’t be in my top fav books, but, it was a solid piece of writing and entertaining none the less.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-03-06
SO GOOD!
Strong on all fronts, a truly stand-out plot among so many carbon copy domestic thrillers. But what is with the incessant vomiting? And the ceaseless gulping of water? Am I right?
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- L.D'anna
- 2022-02-16
Unbearable
About The Accomplice. I hated it.
This book is about a bunch of privileged white american college students who pretty much spend every day and night getting drunk and getting wasted, while also simultaneously managing to sail through college with straight As, although they never study, they never write papers, and they never attend classes.
Getting drunk and wasted, and getting laid and being hungover. One of them dies at some point but it has little impact on the story. Our heroes just keep on getting drunk and getting wasted and having really boring conversations narrated in a really boring voice. Incidentally, these same pampered students who spend all their time getting high and getting wasted become self-righteously scornful when they see their wealthy parents, who pay their way, also getting high and getting wasted.
The story sashays between these students a decade or so after college and then back to college, and nothing really happens to them except they have petty spats and suddenly they're married to partners they don't seem to like and who cares because the reader doesn't meet them. And then one of them is shot. And then nothing really happens except they keep having boring conversations and you guessed it, getting high and getting wasted.
If nothing else, this novel will either make you want to drink yourself into some semblance of as stupid as its characters are, or to never ever drink again.
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