My Favorite Terrible Thing: A Novel
Detective Nina Travers is so good at her job that she blends in like a benevolent Tom Ripley. She can be anyone. She can be no one. Nina wants to be someone. Her new case will finally get her noticed.
Bestselling author Claire Ross has disappeared from the Hamptons on her wedding day. How tragic that the author of an epic romance that captured the heart, soul, and imagination of the world should suddenly vanish on the happiest day of her life. Claire’s distraught family and friends, her mystified fiancé, and her zealous online fans all have their theories—from the sinister to the hopeful. Nina’s job is to find the truth, and she’s pursuing an angle that no one else has explored. She’s looking for a trail of clues in Claire’s novel.
Reading between its haunting lines, Nina follows a spiraling path of secret love, obsession, and death. What Nina finds is so shocking even though she never saw it coming.
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About the Author
My Favorite Terrible Thing is Madeleine Henry's third novel. Her work has featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Post, and Entertainment Weekly. Previously, she worked at Goldman Sachs after graduating from Yale. She lives with her husband in New York, where she is at work on her next book.