Look Closer

Simon and Vicky Dobias look like an ordinary wealthy Chicago couple — he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence survivors. But when a beautiful socialite is found hanging in a nearby mansion, their carefully kept secrets begin to unravel: a whirlwind affair, a twenty-million-dollar trust fund about to come due, and a decades-long grudge built on obsession and revenge. Told across shifting timelines and unreliable points of view, David Ellis's Look Closer — part Gone Girl, part Strangers on a Train — asks not just who killed Lauren Betancourt, but which of the liars at the center of the story is conning whom. Kirkus Reviews called it "twisty, intricately plotted," and the New York Times Book Review named it "wildly entertaining."