Stan and Joy Delaney spent decades building a tennis empire and raising four fiercely competitive children. Now retired, they should be enjoying the rewards of a long marriage — but when Joy vanishes without explanation, leaving behind a cryptic text and an unmade life, the comfortable Delaney story begins to unravel. As weeks pass with no word, the police turn their attention to the one person closest to her: her husband, Stan.
For the four grown Delaney children — steady Logan, prickly Amy, charismatic Troy, and anxious Brooke — the disappearance forces an unbearable question. How well do any of them really know their parents' marriage, and could their father truly have harmed their mother? Their doubts are tangled up with the memory of Savannah, a mysterious young woman who appeared at the Delaneys' door one night, injured and alone, and quietly worked her way into the family months before Joy went missing.
Moving between the present-day search and the events of the year before, Apples Never Fall is Liane Moriarty at her most assured: a sharp, absorbing family drama wrapped around a genuine mystery. It is a novel about long marriages and old grievances, about the stories siblings tell themselves, and about how easily love, resentment, and suspicion can live under the same roof.
