The Perfect Son

Erika Cass has, by every outward measure, the perfect family: a handsome, successful husband and a bright, popular teenage son, Liam, who seems destined for great things. But behind the polished surface, Erika has begun to notice small, disquieting things about her boy — and then she stumbles onto evidence that suggests Liam may be capable of something monstrous.

Torn between a mother's fierce instinct to protect her child and a growing dread of what he might really be, Erika is forced to ask an unbearable question: how well can any parent truly know their own son, and what would she do if the answer terrified her?

Freida McFadden turns the anxieties of family and motherhood into a taut domestic thriller, building toward the kind of destabilizing twist that has become her signature.