“Jennifer Anne Gordon is many things, but if she’s one thing: She’s funny. Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies is an exquisite balance of rising dread with Gordon’s capital wit. You’ll find yourself wanting to partake in things you shouldn’t, even as the red flags unspool, leaving you worried for the characters while also relating to and laughing at a thousand asides. Just a brilliant book from a brilliant writer.” —Josh Malerman, New York Times–bestselling author of Bird Box and Incidents Around the House

“In this intensely visceral suspense, a grieving mother seeks a life wholly different from the one she actually lives. Line by stunning line, Jennifer Anne Gordon rips apart sorrow, peeling layers from the skin until our every nerve ending is exposed. And when every secret and lie is laid bare, Gordon digs the needle in deeper. Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies is a riveting read that injects foreboding into every searing page.” —Samantha M. Bailey, USA Today–bestselling author of Hello, Juliet

“Jennifer Anne Gordon has written that rarest of books: a menopausal, grief-soaked unicorn; part psychological thriller, hard-to-look-away-from horror, and sheer literary beauty. From the start, Gordon’s language of loss was so heartrending and true, I could not help but be ride-or-die for this book. Just thinking of the story during the day felt like a buzz in my pocket that made me jump like Karen was calling with a task for me. Gen Xers, do you remember how we wanted more than just Truth or Dare? We greedily called our game “Truth, Dare, Double Dare, Triple Dare, Consequences, Promise, and Repeat.” I think that might be the narrative arc of Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies. And that’s how I read this story of desperate housewives, this NXIVM Cult tale on steroids—greedily. Tearfully. Desperate to know not how things would end but how things would go on and on.” —Diane Zinna, author of Letting Grief Speak: Writing Portals for Life After Loss and The All-Night Sun