The Best of Friends

Lindsey, Kendra and Dani have been best friends for decades, and their sons have grown up together in a wealthy Southern California suburb. Then a tragic accident leaves one of the boys dead, another in a coma and a third too traumatized to speak.

Reeling, the three mothers start an investigation of their own into how something so horrible could happen. The accident turns out to be only the beginning. As more secrets surface, they are forced to ask whether they really know their children, and whether they really know each other.

Told in alternating chapters from the three women's points of view, this domestic psychological thriller follows suspicion spreading through their families and the wider community. Heartbreak, jealousy and double lives threaten the illusion of a safe, happy life they thought they had. The Best of Friends by Lucinda Berry was published by Thomas & Mercer in August 2020.