A wickedly funny and empowering thriller about women, the manipulators who underestimate them, and keeping your dignity while saving the day by the author of I Thought You Said This Would Work.
Jane Baye is a regular person, good at a lot of things, but identifying the serial killer right in front of her isn’t one of them.
In 1990, college senior Jane wrote to an incarcerated woman because it seemed like a nice thing to do. Thirty-six years later, that felon, actually a man, has moved in next door. He’s watching her every move, with a decades-long plan for Jane that a nice person like her would never see coming.
Especially because Jane is wrapped up in her own problems: a small-town golden boy with talk of forever and a diabolical history of cheating. When she exposes her ex, the entire town of Wonder Lake turns against her.
It’s no wonder she doesn’t see what’s coming on the night of the Norwegian heritage festival.
But woe to those who mistake Jane for a pushover. When celebration becomes a fight for survival, the very qualities that make her ordinary become the weapons she’ll bet everything on.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Jane Baye is a regular person, good at a lot of things, but identifying the serial killer right in front of her isn’t one of them.
In 1990, college senior Jane wrote to an incarcerated woman because it seemed like a nice thing to do. Thirty-six years later, that felon, actually a man, has moved in next door. He’s watching her every move, with a decades-long plan for Jane that a nice person like her would never see coming.
Especially because Jane is wrapped up in her own problems: a small-town golden boy with talk of forever and a diabolical history of cheating. When she exposes her ex, the entire town of Wonder Lake turns against her.
It’s no wonder she doesn’t see what’s coming on the night of the Norwegian heritage festival.
But woe to those who mistake Jane for a pushover. When celebration becomes a fight for survival, the very qualities that make her ordinary become the weapons she’ll bet everything on.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Praise for this book
"Sharp and engaging with keen wit and an undercurrent of menace, Tell Two Friends follows a woman learning to trust herself in a world that tells her not to. A compelling reminder that ignoring your instincts can be deadly." - Meagan Church
"What's the most astounding thing you've ever heard of? How about a college kid who wrote to a convict only to find that twenty-five years later, he's moving in right next door to her, and so is his agenda? Moving and funny, Garvin shows that the good in the world is sometimes like a diamond buried under coal, sparkling for our attention. A wise, wonderful book by a wise, wonderful author. I loved it." - Caroline Leavitt
"Tell not just two friends but every friend you have about Tell Two Friends, in which Ann Garvin, lover of comic fiction, takes a hard, dark turn in this tale of human treachery, lying lives, purest courage, and the stranger next door. Don't miss this breakout novel that will surprise you at every turn." - Jacquelyn Mitchard
"Tell Two Friends is a stunning departure and a natural evolution - Ann Garvin at her most precise and most dangerous. A novel about how the qualities that make someone good - empathy, second chances, the generous instinct to explain away what frightens you - can become the very things used against you. And about what it takes, finally, to trust the one instrument you've been told your whole life is broken: Your own judgment. I loved it!" - Kaira Rouda
"Ann Garvin is a national treasure! There is no one more skilled at delving into the funny/sad truths of the human heart and soul, and spinning them into an irresistible page-turner. Tell Two Friends is both terrifying and inspirational, a chilling thriller mixed with the authentic journey of a smart, relatable woman trying to juggle an impossible life. Calling all book clubs, this is your next thought-provoking and empowering selection - as reputation, family, and life all hang in the balance. A triumph of storytelling." - Hank Phillippi Ryan
"In Tell Two Friends, Garvin mixes humor and suspense - and nails it. Funny, clever, and full of unexpected twists, the novel follows Jane Baye, a woman whose good intentions land her in a heap of Trouble (yes, with a capital T!) she never dared imagine!" - John Searles
"What's the most astounding thing you've ever heard of? How about a college kid who wrote to a convict only to find that twenty-five years later, he's moving in right next door to her, and so is his agenda? Moving and funny, Garvin shows that the good in the world is sometimes like a diamond buried under coal, sparkling for our attention. A wise, wonderful book by a wise, wonderful author. I loved it." - Caroline Leavitt
"Tell not just two friends but every friend you have about Tell Two Friends, in which Ann Garvin, lover of comic fiction, takes a hard, dark turn in this tale of human treachery, lying lives, purest courage, and the stranger next door. Don't miss this breakout novel that will surprise you at every turn." - Jacquelyn Mitchard
"Tell Two Friends is a stunning departure and a natural evolution - Ann Garvin at her most precise and most dangerous. A novel about how the qualities that make someone good - empathy, second chances, the generous instinct to explain away what frightens you - can become the very things used against you. And about what it takes, finally, to trust the one instrument you've been told your whole life is broken: Your own judgment. I loved it!" - Kaira Rouda
"Ann Garvin is a national treasure! There is no one more skilled at delving into the funny/sad truths of the human heart and soul, and spinning them into an irresistible page-turner. Tell Two Friends is both terrifying and inspirational, a chilling thriller mixed with the authentic journey of a smart, relatable woman trying to juggle an impossible life. Calling all book clubs, this is your next thought-provoking and empowering selection - as reputation, family, and life all hang in the balance. A triumph of storytelling." - Hank Phillippi Ryan
"In Tell Two Friends, Garvin mixes humor and suspense - and nails it. Funny, clever, and full of unexpected twists, the novel follows Jane Baye, a woman whose good intentions land her in a heap of Trouble (yes, with a capital T!) she never dared imagine!" - John Searles
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