What Have We Done: A Novel
In this “top-notch mystery thriller” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from Alex Finlay, What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever.
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A stay-at-home mom with a past.
A has-been rock star with a habit.
A reality TV producer with a debt.
Three disparate lives.
One deadly secret.
Twenty five years ago, Jenna, Donnie, and Nico were the best of friends, having forged a bond through the abuse and neglect they endured as residents of Savior House, a group home for parentless teens. When the home was shut down—after the disappearance of several kids—the three were split up.
Though the trauma of their childhood has never left them, each went on to live accomplished—if troubled—lives. They haven’t seen one another since they were teens but now are reunited for a single haunting reason: someone is trying to kill them.
To survive, the group will have to revisit the nightmares of their childhoods and confront their shared past—a past that holds the secret to why someone wants them dead.
It’s a reunion none of them asked for . . . or wanted. But it may be the only way to save all their lives.
What Have We Done is both an edge-of-your-seat thriller and a gut-wrenching coming-of-age story. And it cements Alex Finlay as one of the new leading voices in thrillers today.
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This is another highly anticipated, riveting, capturing, action-packed, heart-throbbing Alex Finlay novel!
Four best friends from a group home haven't been in touch in 25 years. The stay-at-home mom, the has-been rockstar with an addiction problem, a powerful district judge, and the reality TV producer all share a secret. Three have survived recent assassination attempts of them.
What Have We Done is told from the alternating points of view of the three surviving members of Savior House. It’s mostly in the present but with occasional memories to relate moments from the past. The alternation of narrators does a nice job of slowly revealing little morsels about what happened, the characters’ various secrets, and the occasional red herring.
Now, these three have to come together, dodging the people who are out to assassinate them. If they don’t make it, the secret that they have been keeping for 25 years could come to the surface.
With rich characters and a lightning-fast plot, the mystery is compelling, and I didn’t see who was responsible until the very end. All the hype around this novel is well deserved!
I had high hopes for this book due to the author’s previously written books that I’ve enjoyed. However, What Have We Done did not grip me like the other novels by Alex Finlay did. I found myself tuned out from the beginning.
I really really enjoyed this title! I love mystery/thriller type books with multiple POVs. This one definitely had me guessing until the VERY end. Once you think you have something figured out, the rug gets ripped right out from under you!
Thank you, Alex Finaly, NetGalley and St Martin's Press for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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