Necessary People
by Anna Pitoniak
Should I read this?
Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Thriller, Most Recommended Books, and Thriller & Suspense.
One of them has it all. One of them wants it all. But they can't both win. Stella and Violet are best friends, and from the moment they met in college, they knew their roles. Beautiful, privileged, and reckless Stella lives in the spotlight. Hardworking, laserfocused Violet stays behind the scenes, always ready to clean up the mess that Stella ine...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Thriller, Most Recommended Books, and Thriller & Suspense.
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Stephen King
“That bookblurb saying "I couldn't put it down" is usually bullshit, right For me it was true of Anna Pitoniak's NECESSARY PEOPLE. I literally couldn't stop reading. Murder, ambition, toxic friendship. What's not to like”
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Consider And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Recommended by 3 sources.
“Starts like a social parlor game that hardens into a sealed-island murder puzzle: ten strangers, an accusing recorded message, and a steady body count keep momentum tight. Main value is the hair-splitting plotting and the intellectual pleasure of spotting and checking clues against the solution. Main limitation is thinly sketched characters and a schematic moral tone, so emotional depth is secondary to clever mechanics—readers who want soulful characterization will find the cast functional rather than lived-in.”
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