Praise for Little Cruelties
“A dark jewel of a novel, fire flickering in its depths and light lining its edges. …no other crime novelist of the past decade has rivaled Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, or Gillian Flynn. [Little Cruelties is] a tragedy of evil power, crisply written and quickly paced; above all, [it’s] a thriller, swift and exciting and built like a carnival house, all false walls and trapdoors.”—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
"Clever...Little Cruelties shows how thoroughly families can mess one another up, and how sometimes the greatest mysteries are found within the psyche."—The New York Times Book Review
“Artfully constructed… the author’s skillful telling of this multigenerational tragedy has the riveting power of an imminent car crash.”—Publishers Weekly
"One of the delights, if that is the right word, of this book is how thoroughly the author delves into the details of the family's world-class dysfunction...it's a fascinating reminder that no story is compete unless you hear it from everyone involved... Little Cruelties shows how thoroughly families can mess one another up, and how sometimes the greatest mysteries are found within the psyche." --Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Book Review
"Liz Nugent’s books exist at that very particular crossroads of horror and psychological thriller where the horror exists in the cruelty of human relationships themselves. As with all of Liz Nugent’s works, the sociopathy of characters is as much rooted in the repressed culture of 1980s Ireland as in the figures themselves. No one is rotten to begin with, Nugent knows, but she won’t let us look away from how truly rotten some of us become."—CrimeReads
"Nugent’s upcoming novel is one you’ll want to pick up...If you liked Succession, you’ll get sucked into this cautionary tale of how sinister impulses can corrupt a family." —Betches
"Just as sharp and intelligent as Liz Nugent’s previous releases...This book will get under your skin with the everyday evils it depicts." —Crime by the Book
"Riveting...Little Cruelties melds a hardboiled story with a family drama, leading to a tragedy that will define another generation."—Shelf Awareness
Description
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond and Lying in Wait, a biting and masterful “dark jewel of a novel” (A.J. Finn, #1New York Times bestselling author) that explores the many ways families can wreak emotional havoc across generations—for fans of HBO’s acclaimed series Succession.
All three of the Drumm brothers were at the funeral.
But one of them was in the coffin.
William, Brian, and Luke: three boys, born a year apart, trained from birth by their wily mother to compete for her attention. They play games, as brothers do…yet even after the Drumms escape into the world beyond their windows, those games—those little cruelties—grow more sinister, more merciless, and more dangerous. And with their lives entwined like the strands of a noose, only two of the brothers will survive.
Hailed by New York Times bestselling author Shari Lapena as “brilliant, engrossing,” and perfect for fans of breathtaking suspense, Little Cruelties gazes unflinchingly into the darkness collecting in the corners of childhood homes, hiding beneath marriage beds, clasped in the palms of two brothers shaking hands. And it confirms that Liz Nugent is truly “a force to be reckoned with” (Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author) in contemporary fiction.
Reviews
Praise for Lying in Wait
“An extraordinary novel. Lying in Wait crackles and snaps like a bonfire on a winter’s night; you shudder even as you draw closer to it. Spellbinding.”
“Taut, crisp, clear, a storm-warning of a book. It has the eeriness of ‘The Turn of the Screw;’ but as these screws turn, a mighty tension takes hold. Masterly.”
“A tense, taut, almost gothic thriller…impossible to stop reading.”
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