A Good Person

Lillian is twenty-nine and works in marketing in Boston. She has decided that her situationship with Henry is a relationship that simply hasn't started yet. Her plan is to be as agreeable as possible until he falls for her.

Henry ends it instead. Angry and a little drunk, Lillian casts a revenge hex and waits for him to come back and beg. He does not. Henry turns up dead, and Lillian becomes a prime suspect in his murder.

She wants to control the story, clear her name and be seen as the grieving girlfriend. So she starts digging into what happened to him. The more she pursues the truth, the more dangerously her life spins out of control.

Lillian narrates, and she is deeply unreliable, so every version of events comes filtered through her need to justify herself. The tone is dark and funny, a novel of obsession that has been compared to a zillennial Gone Girl. The question it turns on is how much of what Lillian says about herself and Henry can be believed.