Thank you to Netgalley/Brilliance Publishing for the ALC and to Booksparks for the finished copy of One in Four in exchange for my honest opinion.
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Publishing
Published: May 13, 2025
Summary:
When a reality show about former child stars overcoming addiction culminates in murder, their therapist must take a closer look into their lives—and her own, from USA Today bestselling author Lucinda Berry.
Dr. Laurel Hargrow can’t believe she’s agreed to do a reality TV show. But her years as a chemical dependency counselor and personal history with the show’s director make her the obvious choice. Treating a mansion full of former child stars on the road to recovery is the tallest order of her career—especially when one of them turns up dead while the cameras are still rolling.
In a house full of narcissists vying for the spotlight, everyone’s hiding something…including Laurel. An investigation could expose a past she’d rather keep buried. But among the attention-starved patients, only one of them is a predator. And Laurel is skilled at spotting a predator when she sees one.
As she hunts a killer in her present, the unsettling truths of Laurel’s past are forced into the light. But this time, she’ll face her demons head on. She’ll stop at nothing to expose a murderer, even if it means risking everything she holds dear.
My thoughts:
This was my first book by this author and it didn’t disappoint! I will definitely be checking out her backlist.
This is an intense read and having just seen the author at Hamptons Whodunit, I could see where her background as a psychologist comes in. This is a very dark, very twisted story that plays around with addiction and grief. There are a lot of twists, many I did not see coming but I love it that way! There are times you need to suspend disbelief, but I was ok with that. The ending totally blew my mind and it makes me even more excited to pick up her other books – are they all like that? I can’t wait to find out!
Audio thoughts:
This is narrated by some of my favorites – Saskia Maarleveld, Tessa Albertson and Brittany Pressley – and they all do an amazing job with their parts, all infusing just the right emotion and tension into their voices as needed.
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