The title of this book could not describe the plot more perfectly. There are so many secrets that I found myself confused during certain parts of the book though. It all came together at the end, and I really enjoyed the twisty story.

I listened to this book so here is my quick opinion of the narrators. While I liked the different voices for Liza/Zoe chapters, I found it hard to remember when it jumped back in time to Liza (25-years ago) so that was hard for me to follow. The narrators kept my attention and used good voice fluctuation.

Privileged, preppie kids of 28 years ago are now older but still acting like the entitled group that got them into trouble in the past.
Beach week….an annual affair for this posh Washington DC high school had a tragic accident 28 years ago. A young girl disappeared, was assumed drowned: dreadful but everyone went on with their lives.
Now another young girl is found dead on the beach and after some discovery, it is revealed that her mother was there at the first unfortunate incident. In fact, the mom was an important factor in the first event.
This close clique of friends have kept what really happened that fateful day to themselves and it seems without much conscience. They are all too willing to do what ever it takes to keep this skeleton buried….in so many ways! The final scenes had the reader wondering if their privilege will keep them from ever serving time for their crimes.
The reader provided all the characters with a distinct voice which set a good mental picture for the listener.

The book starts at 25 years ago, Liza and her friends celebrated their high school graduation with beach week. One friend never came back. Present day, Liza is a divorced mother whose teenage daughter, Zoe, finds herself in a similar situation at beach week. Her friend has been found dead. Liza is determined that these two deaths are related. The book flowed well with good characters, suspense and action. The book feels a bit more like a YA but it would be an easy beach read.

This was an engaging story that went back and forth between and mother and daughter's perspective as well as jumping to the past when the mother had just graduated high school. The book works through a current and past mystery of two girls who drowned during beach week after their graduation. It has lots of plot twist and keeps you interested in figuring out what actually happened to each of the girls. The mom main character, Liza, was a little annoying and clueless. The book at times was a little slow and added in details that it seemed weren't actually needed for the plot. It did however keep my interest and the more I read, the more I wanted to get to the end to see what happened.

Very engaging and twisty read. Interesting narrative points of view, and timelines. I've already recommended it to friends as a good summer read. There were a few pieces to the story that I would have appreciated further development, but they were minor items. Would definitely read another book from Ms. Thompson!

Wow! This book came full circle and I did not see all of the twists coming. When Zoe's Best Friend drowns at Beach week, you don't expect for it to be a repeat of what happened to her mother years ago. Liza and Zoe have a strained relationship but little do they know that they are both trying to learn the truth to what ends up being the same, big, secret.

I felt like this was going to be almost a DC version of Gossip Girl meets Veronica Mars, and it was similar in a few aspects but also very different. At first, I found the dual POV a little hard to follow, but once we got into the meat of the story it smoothed out for me. I didn't really like Zoe or her mom in the long run.

The story fell a little flat and it just wasn't as exciting as I thought it had the potential to be. I would still recommend other to give it a chance, it just wasn't my personal favorite.

Oooof, I didn’t see some of these secrets, twists, lies, coming!
Absolutely LOVED listening to All The Dirty Secrets, this was my first read from author Aggie Blum Thompson and I’m impressed!
I listened to this one , while walking my St Bernard, and quite honestly, I was addicted about 1/4 of the way in. It started off a tad slow for me but only because of the many characters and the need to build each properly. WOW once it picked up speed I couldn’t stop listening.
Set upon the campus of an elitist DC prep school and the students’ Beach week (Rehoboth/ Dewey Beach , DE) , this reads like a “now and then” mother / daughter piece set in present day and 1994. Since I also graduated in 1994, I could relate toA LOT of those dated references , except for “Ace of Base” (ummm not my jam)!
The author tied in the past / present wonderfully well and it all made sense as it artfully unfolded.
Listening to this book on audio helped, Hillary Huber did an excellent job as Liza, I thought Josephine Huang was a little too “valley girl-ish” and it seemed a little over acted at times, but I was still engrossed and couldn’t wait to KEEP LISTENING!
The author touched upon heavy themes in the book like racism, rape, death by suicide , and white privilege . This author addresses these themes skillfully , tastefully and masterfully.
I absolutely will be seeking out ABT’s first novel as soon as possible and I highly recommend All The Dirty Secrets! 4.5 twisty , thrilling stars!

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for providing me with this ARC for my honest review! 😊

I enjoyed the dual timelines of this story and the way they connected to each other. I liked how the author had Liza, the mother’s story set in the past and her daughter, Zoe’s story in the present, and how they both had friends drown at their senior year beach party was a unique way to bring their stories together.

It was hard for me to relate to the characters, and I felt at times there were too many people to keep track of. I listened to the audiobook while reading along which helped a little, but it was confusing figuring out who was who at times. I enjoyed both of the narrators and thought they did a good job voicing Liza and Zoe.

Thank you toMacmillan Audio and NetGalley for an advanced listeners copy in exchange for my honest review.

Wow, Aggie Blum Thompson. You hooked me from the start and carefully dropped clues until I was completely invested. The back and forth narration between Liza and her daughter, Zoe, is the perfect way to connect the disappearance of two girls during beach week, twenty-eight years apart. I thought I had it figured out, but ABT throws a perfectly-executed twist, and I was off guessing again. Everybody is hiding something in this one, and All the Dirty Secrets are Going to Come Out. I loved it!

Thank you to Macmillan Audio for providing an ALC in exchange for an honest review!

Pub date: 7/12/22
Genre: suspense/thriller
In one sentence: Washington Prep's Beach Week has seen two mysterious deaths 25 years apart - now alumna and school employee Liza will try to solve them both.

I love dark academia and beach reads, so this book was a must-read! I enjoyed both timelines, and I was impressed by how well the author intertwined them. I was able to guess a few of the twists, but there were plenty of surprises I didn't see coming, and I enjoyed the ride.

Narrators Hillary Huber and Josephine Wang did a great job bringing the adults and teens, respectively, of the story to life. This is a fun book to listen to on audiobook walks or while doing chores - it made the time go much faster! Suburban thriller lovers will enjoy this one!

Entertaining listen. Sometimes had trouble tracking all the characters. It was also hard to relate to them. I did enjoy the twists.

Thank you to the publishers, author and NetGalley for the free copy of this audio book.

I wasn't totally in love with the characters but all the twist and secrets more than made up for it! Well written, and the back and forth in time was done in a way that wasn't too confusing. I would recommend giving this a shot!

The author, Aggie Blum Thompson, has beautifully written the text with descriptive passages and colourful narratives. However, it seems to drag on a bit and become more complicated than it needed to be.. I’m not sure I would’ve pursued it had I been reading it instead of listening to the audiobook. All the Dirty Secrets is a very long listen but we’ll worth the listen. I certainly did not anticipate all the twists.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to and review this ARC .

Thank you to Netgalley, Macmillan Audio, and Aggie Blum Thompson for an ALC in exchange for an honest review. I really enjoyed listening to this book and especially enjoyed the story being told through the dual POVs of Zoey and her mom! In the beginning, I struggled a bit differentiating certain details between the past and the present but as the story continued every detail fell into place. I had to keep listening to find out what happened and if the past and present murders were connected. This would be a great addition to your beach bag this summer and I look forward to reading more from this author in the future. 4.5 stars, rounded up to 5 for Goodreads!

This book had a lot of my favorite things: dual timelines, multiple perspectives, and mysteries to solve! Even though it had all of this, I still only rated it 3.5 (rounded up) as I was only able to connect to Nikki, who only had a couple chapters in the book. I like how everything from the past and present was unraveled (why I love dual timelines), but there were times when I was like, can't you tell us something? Most everything was revealed in the last hour or two of the book, so it almost became hard to grasp.

Hillary Huber is a narrator I love hearing but occasionally love to hate. She truly is wonderful, but there are times when voicing a main character that she sounds so pretentious that you can't help but dislike the character, at least in the moment. This happened a few times, but I can't say for certain if it was her intonation or the writing, nor whether or not it is intentional. Liza's contradicting views on rape victims made me literally hate her and I was never really able to recover. Toward the end, I didn't care about what happened to her.

This is the first audiobook I listened to with Josephine Huang and she was wonderful as well; I just wasn't a fan of Zoe. How she interacted with her mother made me so mad!!! While her going to a school that promotes entitlement and elitism just by existing, as well as her father, Daniel, blaming all her actions on being a teen and never holding Zoe accountable, it's understandable for her to act this way. Even still, I had very little sympathy for her plights within the book.

Nikki, also voiced by Huber, was the most relatable character to me. I felt for her and was by far most engaged when she was around. I would have liked to see more of her history before the fateful night in 1994.

There were times when a character was mentioned and not brought up again for hours and I'd have to stop and think who they were. Most times I could remember, but there was at least one that I never did. I also found some aspects of the book SO convenient that it bordered on not being believable (the names for the compass [super cute, but too coincidental, especially given how the girls felt about Whitney], Liza being a former crime reporter, both girls being at the same beach when they died, everyone staying around to tie the two incidences together, etc.). At times it felt like there were things that the author really wanted in this book, even if it wasn't believable, so the pieces were forced to fit.

I am grateful that there was some diversity (one Latino family, two Asian characters, and one Black character), but I wish authors everywhere would note that pointing out the race of a character for the sake of stating they have a diverse cast of characters is not diversity. White characters aren't noted for being white, it's assumed they are, which is the problem. Simply pointing out the racial differences of the other characters only highlights this and misses the mark of correcting the problem.

Read/Listen if you Like:
🔪 Multiple POV
🔪 Multiple Crimes
🔪 Multiple Timelines
🔪 Interconnected Crimes

Book Review:
All the Dirty Secrets follows a mother and daughter that have interconnected social circles and a loss of a friend in common. 25 years prior at Beach Week one of Liza’s friends drowned and was never seen again, now in present day, the same has happened to her daughter Zoe. It seems as though history is repeating itself… and people that were there the night of the first drowning seem suspiciously tied to the present day death of a young girl.

Through this you get past and present and the views of mother and daughter as they reflect on the two deaths and try to make sense of the Beach Week Drownings that are now part of both of their DNA forever moving forward.

As they independently try to look at the clues and try to find where the connection is, they start to realize that uncovering the truth of both drownings may be more connected than they realized and may just put them in harms way in order to get to the truth.

I loved that this was two perspectives and gave past and present day to help weave you in and out wondering the connection right along with the mother/daughter duo. I loved the mystery and that I guessed at what may have happened but I was kept on my toes until the very end!

Thank you NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, and Forge Books for the ARC of this audiobook! I am so thankful to obtain a copy to listen to it in advance of its release!

Ever since Liza herself was a student at Washington Academy she’s hung out with the same people now but she is a divorce woman with a teenage daughter of her own who goes to Washington Academy they still hang out with pretty much the same people it’s quite incestuous as a matter of fact. When she was a student and they went to beach week after the graduation her friend Nikki drowned in the lake and now that her daughter is Zoe is old enough to go to beach week she does only Liza has no clue she is going in while they’re her secret best friend drowned in the lake and leaves a suicide note on Instagram. let me just say before I get into my opinion of the book Liza is a valley clueless mother and friend her daughter is the one who decides to find out what happened she knows it wasn’t Ainsley who posted the Insta post and she’s determined to find out who did. Was there two friends drowning a coincidence or were they connected NF connected who did it? I really wasn’t that surprised with the ending up as a matter of a fact by the time it ended I was so happy you’re dead I didn’t finish the last two chapters of the book. I was over it it took so long to get to the nitty-gritty that I felt like I was reading a fiction book. Especially during Liza‘s part she just seem not to get it… And I mean anything! I thought this was going to be a great book about dirty secrets and they didn’t have secrets but all she would’ve had to do was scratch the surface and she could’ve found them out . I guess if you’re anything like Liza then you will consider The turns in this book twist adobe confused by your happiness that is finally over the joy of how great the book was because it could’ve been better. I did like the narrator and thought she did a great teenage girl but as far as Liza and Nikki go they sounded the same. I received this book from netGally and the author but I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any mistakes as I am blind to dictate my review. All opinions are definitely my own.

**3.5-stars rounded up**

25-years ago, Liza and her best friends, Nikki, Shelby and Whitney, took part in a traditional celebration in their area known as Beach Week. The girls attended a posh private school, Washington Prep, in D.C. and Beach Week is essentially their way of celebrating their graduation, all without adult supervision, with lots of substances and the use of their parent's beach houses.

Things are known to get pretty wild, but even the locals seem to disregard what's happening. These privileged kids get away with everything. Unfortunately, this time, one of them doesn't come out unscathed. Nikki never made it back from their midnight swim and her death has haunted Liza all these years.

Now Liza has her own daughter, Zoe, at Washington Prep and while her Mom is away on a Girls Weekend at the beach, Zoe takes advantage and slips off to the beach herself for her own Beach Week celebration. Even though Zoe is an underclassman, she gets invited along to Beach Week as a guest of an older girl named, Emery, who graduated from Washington Prep last year. Liza only discovers that Zoe has sneaked away to the beach when she receives a call from the local police.

Zoe is at the station extremely distressed after discovering Emery's dead body on the beach. She says Emery had gone off to meet up with someone, but she doesn't know who. The police assert it's just another Beach Week drowning.

Liza is completely floored by this news. She can't believe Zoe would lie and take off on her own like this. More disturbing though is another mysterious death of a young girl from Washington Prep. Is it just a horrific coincidence, or is there something more at play?

In All the Dirty Secrets, Aggie Blum Thompson successfully weaves together a wicked tale of privilege, lies, deception and murder. This is one twisted tale and frankly, I love to see that. The more twisted the better. In this case, the narrative started out quite slow for me. It took me a while to become engaged.

Initially, I found some of the characters to be quite annoying, particularly how Zoe talked to her Mom and I wasn't sure if I could push through. Fortunately, I was listening to the audiobook and the narrators did a great job keeping me engaged enough to proceed and I'm so glad for that. About the time that Liza heads into the police station to collect Miss Sassy-Mouth Zoe, I became truly captivated. From there, I couldn't put it down.

I really enjoyed how Blum Thompson formatted this story. I always enjoy dual timelines and POVs. In this narrative we follow Liza's group during their high school Beach Week and the events surround Nikki's death, as well as Liza's present perspective and Zoe's present perspective.

This allowed the reveals to hit one after another, helping the story to get rolling. Just when I thought I knew it all, something would be exposed that would have my jaw on the floor. I couldn't believe the dirt I was digging through by the end; my goodness. There were some bad actors in this story, that's for sure!

Overall, I had fun with this. It's a great Summer Thriller. I would definitely recommend it and look forward to picking up more from this author in the future. Thank you so much to the publisher, Forge Books and Macmillan Audio, for providing me with copies to read and review. I really appreciate it!

This was my first audiobook and it definitely did not disappoint. This book was filled with shocking plot twists, secrets, depict, and and was beautifully written from 3 different POV which all came together perfectly at the end linking together the stories of both victims and liza and her daughter. I absolutely loved this book, and will be reading others from this author!