Even for a con artist, Liz is about to take things way, way too far . . .
Liz has a knack for getting wealthy people to trust her – everyone thinks she’s an instant friend. She’s made a life for herself as a serial con artist, but Liz’s many identities and crimes are starting to snap at her heels. So she leaps at the chance to escape to the Mexican coast to decorate a socialite’s new villa, planning to behave herself for once.
But when Liz is mistaken for her absent employer, she just can’t help herself. Drawn into the dazzling seafront community, things take an unexpected turn, until Liz wonders exactly why her doppelganger hasn’t come to claim her glittering life . . .
Spoiler: it’s going to be carnage.
Liz has a knack for getting wealthy people to trust her – everyone thinks she’s an instant friend. She’s made a life for herself as a serial con artist, but Liz’s many identities and crimes are starting to snap at her heels. So she leaps at the chance to escape to the Mexican coast to decorate a socialite’s new villa, planning to behave herself for once.
But when Liz is mistaken for her absent employer, she just can’t help herself. Drawn into the dazzling seafront community, things take an unexpected turn, until Liz wonders exactly why her doppelganger hasn’t come to claim her glittering life . . .
Spoiler: it’s going to be carnage.
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Reviews
Multitalented Krysten Ritter is back with a sexy, breakneck thriller that immerses readers in the sometimes-glamorous and sometimes-deadly life of a con artist. Full of surprises and edge-of-your-seat scenes, Retreat is a wild ride
Packed with suspense and moves at a cracking pace
Krysten Ritter made a name for herself by portraying some of the fiercest female characters in pop culture history. It should come as no surprise, then, that her debut novel carries that same level of strength and complexity on every single page
A suspenseful, psychologically gripping story
PRAISE FOR KRYSTEN RITTER
PRAISE FOR RETREAT
Dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable
A phenomenal, haunting debut
Razor-sharp and utterly shocking
Actress Ritter makes a triumphant fiction debut with this pulse-pounding thriller featuring a sympathetic, broken lead character . . . Pitch-perfect
Smart, sexy and wickedly fun: this is everything you want in a sun-drenched thriller. Ritter can really write - you'll race through Retreat in a day, rooting for its sparky anti-heroine (just try not to drop it in the pool at the jaw-dropping twist)
Bonfire is a stone-cold stunner - the writing is dazzling
Ritter has created an appealingly feisty yet vulnerable heroine . . . An excellent debut
A sultry, shocking and sizzling tale of duplicity and desperation - a dynamite read
Sun-soaked and razor-sharp, Retreat serves up women's wrongs in a seductive, satisfying fashion
An expertly plotted page-turner