A Good Marriage: A Novel

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Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent in this “irresistible domestic drama” (Washington Post) from the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman’s brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples make—and the secrets they keep—in order to stay together.
Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they’d be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Until recently, she’d been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. That job and her brilliant, devoted husband Sam—she had everything she’d ever wanted. And then, suddenly, it all fell apart. 
No. That’s a lie. It wasn’t sudden, was it? Long ago the cracks in Lizzie’s marriage had started to show. She was just good at averting her eyes. 
The last thing Lizzie needs right now is a call from an inmate at Rikers asking for help—even if Zach Grayson is an old friend. But Zach is desperate: his wife, Amanda, has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs in their Brooklyn brownstone. And Zach’s the primary suspect. 
As Lizzie is drawn into the dark heart of idyllic Park Slope, she learns that Zach and Amanda weren’t what they seemed—and that their friends, a close-knit group of fellow parents at the exclusive Brooklyn Country Day school, might be protecting troubling secrets of their own. In the end, she’s left wondering not only whether her own marriage can be saved, but what it means to have a good marriage in the first place.

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Published May 5, 2020

400 pages

Average rating: 7.11

91 RATINGS

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KikiStoneCreek
Jun 03, 2023
8/10 stars
A well-written mystery that kept me guessing to the end! I love the characters in the book, although I didn't think the marriage between Amanda and Zach was realistic. How did they ever get married? Did he fake some feelings in the beginning to trick her into marriage so that he would have a built-in housekeeper/mother for his child? And we're never told why he even wanted a child, if he ever did. Their relationship was just too sterile to be believable.
Mary Pat Holt
Feb 05, 2026
6/10 stars
This is the 3rd book that I've read from this author. She is a sharp writer with a law background. I thought this was a really good, slow burn murder mystery. Four couples who marriages are slowly imploding, all are keeping secrets and cracks are starting to appear. Eventually their lives unravel and secrets are revealed and ultimately a murder occurs. Told in alternating POV's, the murder victim and the accused's attorney. I thought the characters were interesting. They were all keeping some kind of secret. While they both had secrets, I really liked Lizzie (the attorney) and Amanda (the murder victim). I had some compassion for them because of their current situations. Amanda's husband, Zach, was a complete a**hole. The ending was a bit unbelievable as how the four couples were linked. Still a good, somewhat dark psychological thriller.

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