For the Best

Jules Worthington-Smith wakes to a nightmare: her wallet was found beside a dead man, and the police now treat her as the prime suspect in his murder. She is sure she did not do it. She cannot prove it, because she was blackout drunk that night and remembers nothing.

Years of work went into building the right family and the right career, and both are now at risk. Jules does not trust the police to get to the truth, so she starts her own inquiry, and she drinks gin while she does it.

As new clues turn up, she records her findings in a true-crime vlog. The channel goes viral, and Jules becomes a public figure while still a suspect. The attention brings its own pressure, and it pushes her to face her turbulent childhood and her heavy drinking.

This is a psychological thriller told around an unreliable memory, with an amateur investigator whose habits make her a risky guide to her own case. The further she digs, the more she learns about the killing and about herself. The stakes grow with each discovery, since naming the real killer may not be enough to free her.

The author also wrote Little Voices.