Keep Your Friends Close

 In  this blog post, I reviewed Leah Konen’s Keep Your Friends Close. This thriller will keep you in suspense from start to finish. It would deliver you goosebumps and gasping breaths in every turned page. For Mary Haywood, all she wanted is to move to Old Forge New York with her young son Alex. But her husband George is making it difficult for her to do so with vile threats and intimidating tactics. But when she meets Willa, her looks could kill, they would be more than deceiving when she befriends her, and later learns who she was, when she discovered her husband’s dead body at her home. At first, she’s a prime suspect, but she didn’t know who would be vindictive to kill him in cold blood. She later becomes hesitant and doubts Willa after she ghosted her for a time. In the end, she later discovered the shocking truth on who killed him and why… that would leave you breathless.

This nitty-gritty dark thriller has all the right elements of a psychological thriller. It has plenty of shocking twists and turns to leave you second-guessing everything. I really cared about Mary and how she wanted freedom with her son. I remained on the fence about WIlla, since the novel is turned in her POV and WIlla’s, back and forth. I really liked the settings in New York near Woodstock that made it picturesque for the location. The theme is be careful what you wish for and to who to trust in the end.

If you like twisted thrillers with plenty of non-stop drama, and lots of intense suspense, Keep Your Friends Close will send you shivers. This is recommended for fans who read Mary Lubica, Erica Spindler, Shari LaPena, LIsa Jackson, and many others.