Book description
For fans of The Perfect Girlfriend, The Flight Attendant, and Promising Young Woman, a compulsively readable suspense novel about a woman who will stop at nothing to expose the dark secrets of a powerful man—with shocking results.
A bad day at work. A drunken night. A rogue Instagram follow. That’s…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Next Girl as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved The Next Girl because I resonated with the main character, Billie, so much.
All of Pip Drysdale’s books are fast-paced, making her novels difficult to put down at the best of times, but reading Billie’s inner monologue and understanding her motivations, all I could think is, "Oh, gosh, I would probably do this, and this would be how I die."
I could understand her determination to protect another woman from danger; and in a sense, it helped me heal a little from my own past.
Not only did I identify with Billie, but I was so…
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