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Getting Away with Murder by Shari Lapena

Getting Away with Murder (2026)

Getting Away with Murder by Shari Lapena

A Master Combination of Greed, Trust, and Domestic Thrills

In Getting Away with Murder, #1 New York Times bestselling author Shari Lapena delivers a tense thriller about the deadly costs of maintaining an opulent lifestyle. When disastrous debts threaten to bankrupt Jill and Ted Westcott and strip away their prized Brooklyn Heights brownstone, they panic. Refusing to downsize, the couple devises a cold-blooded plan: murder Ted’s wealthy brother to secure his massive inheritance before loan sharks come collecting.

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After pushing Greg off his sailboat, Jill and Ted assume they’ve executed the perfect crime—no body, no evidence, and a massive payout ahead. But their foolproof scheme quickly fractures under external pressure. As a relentless Coast Guard investigator suspects foul play, secret surveillance cameras and anonymous “I know what you did” text messages surface, shattering the couple’s mutual trust into a tailspin of paranoia, betrayal, and catastrophic choices.

“A deliciously dark, fast-paced thrill ride that proves Shari Lapena remains a reigning master of domestic psychological suspense.”

The Book Guide® Editor

Lapena shines by subverting standard “whodunnit” tropes into a tense “whydunit” and “how-they’ll-fail” thriller, placing readers directly inside the minds of the perpetrators as their glamorous brownstone becomes a pressure cooker of paranoia. Through crisp prose, multiple perspectives, and a web of opportunistic side characters, she delivers a dark morality tale about unchecked privilege—making Getting Away with Murder by Shari Lapena an intensely bingeable, suspense-filled page-turner that is absolutely worth reading.

Getting Away with Murder by Shari Lapena

Getting Away with Murder by Shari Lapena
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In Getting Away with Murder, #1 New York Times bestselling author Shari Lapena delivers a tense thriller about the deadly costs of maintaining an opulent lifestyle. When disastrous debts threaten to bankrupt Jill and Ted Westcott and strip away their prized Brooklyn Heights brownstone, they panic. Refusing to downsize, the couple devises a cold-blooded plan: murder Ted’s wealthy brother to secure his massive inheritance before loan sharks come collecting.
In Getting Away with Murder, #1 New York Times bestselling author Shari Lapena delivers a tense thriller about the deadly costs of maintaining an opulent lifestyle. When disastrous debts threaten to bankrupt Jill and Ted Westcott and strip away their prized Brooklyn Heights brownstone, they panic. Refusing to downsize, the couple devises a cold-blooded plan: murder Ted’s wealthy brother to secure his massive inheritance before loan sharks come collecting.
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