Bad Summer People

The perfect summer. The perfect marriage. The perfect secret. The SPIEGEL bestseller now in paperback. Every summer, Jen Weinstein and her friend Lauren Parker leave their privileged lives in New York behind to spend the most beautiful weeks of the year on Fire Island, an idyllic dune island right next to Long Island. Here, "old money" resides; they have known each other for years and pass the time playing tennis, enjoying cool cocktails at the clubhouse, and having beach picnics. The husbands check stock prices, while Jen and her friends have long since begun the race for the new attractive tennis instructor - it seems like it will be just another normal summer. Until, after a storm, a body is found in a slope. And as the days grow longer and hotter, more and more cracks appear in the seemingly perfect lives of Jen and her friends: Who is sleeping with whom? Who has run out of money? And: Who still has an unsettled score with whom? "Cancel all your appointments - I inhaled this book over a weekend and just couldn't put it down." Lucy Foley.