The Accomplice, Lisa Lutz
The Accomplice, Lisa Lutz
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The Accomplice

Author: Lisa Lutz

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan

Unabridged: 11 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/25/2022


Synopsis

Everyone has the same questions about best friends Owen and Luna: What binds them together so tightly? Why weren’t they ever a couple? And why do people around them keep turning up dead? In this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger, every answer raises a new, more chilling question.
 
“Masterfully plotted, The Accomplice is both a keep-you-guessing mystery and a keenly and tenderly observed character study.”—Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar

Owen Mann is charming, privileged, and chronically dissatisfied. Luna Grey is secretive, cautious, and pragmatic. Despite their differences, they form a bond the moment they meet in college. Their names soon become indivisible—Owen and Luna, Luna and Owen—and stay that way even after an unexplained death rocks their social circle.

They’re still best friends years later, when Luna finds Owen’s wife brutally murdered. The police investigation sheds light on some long-hidden secrets, but it can’t penetrate the wall of mystery that surrounds Owen. To get to the heart of what happened and why, Luna has to dig up the one secret she’s spent her whole life burying.

The Accomplice brilliantly examines the bonds of shared history, what it costs to break them, and what happens when you start wondering how well you know the one person who truly knows you.

About Lisa Lutz

Lisa Lutz is the New York Times bestselling, Alex Award–winning author of the Spellman Files series, as well as the novels The Accomplice, Heads You Lose (with David Hayward), How to Start a Fire, The Passenger, and The Swallows. She has also written for film and TV, including HBO’s The Deuce. She lives in upstate New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Regina on February 02, 2022

Lisa Lutz is one talented and versatile writer. First you’ve got her signature Spellman Files series, which is full of wink-and-a-nudge humor. Then you’ve got a thriller like her 2016 novel The Passenger, which is a total ride on a can’t-look-away crazytrainwreck. But now she gives us something a li......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on September 18, 2022

I think so far this is the best book the author has written. I liked the character driven, intense, mind numbing, twisty, intriguing plot! I loved devoted- obsessed- peculiar relationship between Owen and Luna! I don’t know the main reason why they are drawn to each other like magnets. They never da......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 25, 2022

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! How much is too much when friends rely on each other through thick and thin? Luna Grey and Owen Mann have an unbreakable bond and have been best friends since their college days. Complete opposites, they became known as Owen and Luna, Luna and Owen. Can’t have one without the ot......more

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on February 01, 2022

I'm definitely an outlier among my reviewer friends with this rating, so go read their reviews and take mine with a grain of salt. I'm a huge fan of this author's books, but this one just fell a bit short for me. It kept me interested throughout, but the ultimate resolution of the mysteries was disap......more

Goodreads review by Jayme on January 30, 2022

Luna and Owen are the best of friends…but can two people of the opposite sex really be just friends? And, can this bond survive MORE than one person in their social circle, dying under suspicious circumstances? They are about to find out, especially when secrets from the past come out, especially on......more


Quotes

“Lisa Lutz just gets better and better, and . . . The Accomplice may just be her best so far.”CrimeReads

“There’s no one in crime fiction more inventive than Lisa Lutz, and The Accomplice is her greatest sleight of hand yet. Wry and menacing, with the gravity-defying grace of a skipped stone, The Accomplice is at once a suspenseful thrill ride, a deep and disquieting meditation on friendship, and a Wes Anderson comedy rolled into one. After this, I’d read her grocery list.”—Amy Gentry, bestselling author of Good as Gone and Bad Habits

“Masterfully plotted, The Accomplice is both a keep-you-guessing mystery—like, seriously, I didn’t see any of it coming—and a keenly and tenderly observed character study and portrait of a beautiful friendship complicated by a strange body count that keeps growing around them. I was rooting for Owen and Luna, but murder has a way of testing the bounds of even the tightest of best friends.”—Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home

“[An] atmospheric, well-plotted, and brilliantly narrated story, which is at once mysterious, suspenseful, and witty.”Booklist (starred review)

“Quirky characters, humor in unexpected places, and a twisty but plausible plot keep the pages turning. Readers will be torn between eagerness to get to the bottom of the novel’s mysteries—and reluctance for the adventure to end.”Publishers Weekly