This fast-paced thriller by Kimberly McCreight had me hooked from the start! Not only complicated family dynamics but workplace inconsistencies, this plot had several interwoven storylines that I was trying to solve with each passing chapter! I was thrilled to have the opportunity to read this ARC of McCreight's- thank you Netgalley and the publisher!

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a page turning mystery that examines the complicated relationship between a mother and her young adult daughter. Cleo comes home to her parents’ apartment after her mom begs her to come and talk to her. In her arrival, Cleo finds food burning on the stove, blood, and no sign of her mom, Kat. Cleo knows her mom is a successful lawyer in a loving marriage (lies, both of them) and has no idea what could have happened. The story is told from both Kat and Cleo’s perspectives and jumps back and forth in time as we follow them in the days leading up to and after Kat’s disappearance. I loved how these seemingly complete opposites were both headstrong and determined. This was a a solid and entertaining mystery that fans of McCreight will absolutely love. Out 7/9/24

Like Mother, Like Daughter
Kimberly McCreight
(This review is from an ARC sent to me by NetGalley)
When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened.
Like Mother, Like Daughter revolves around a realistically complex relationship between a mother and her estranged daughter. Cleo is the polar opposite of her mother Kat who Cleo thinks is a happily married successful corporate lawyer. Kat grew up in a dangerous group home which taught her to stay calm under pressure and face real threats. Kat has become aware of multiple threats: demands for money from her unfaithful soon-to-be ex-husband; evidence that Cleo has slipped back into a relationship that’s far riskier than she understands; and menacing anonymous messages from her past—all of which she’s kept hidden from Cleo.
Like Mother, Like Daughter is a thrilling novel of emotional suspense, a love story between a mother and a daughter, each determined to save the other before it’s too late.

Katrina and her daughter Cleo have a complicated relationship. Once extremely close, they barely talk now due to a falling out over Cleo's former boyfriend and Katrina's judgmental eye. When Katrina texts Cleo to come over for dinner once night, Cleo is apprehensive but accepts the offer. When she arrives she is surprised to find dinner on the stove and her mother nowhere to be found. In the living room surrounded by a small pool of blood is her mother's shoe. Cleo immediately notifies her father and runs to the neighbor's house where they call the police. For the next week or so Cleo discovers more about her mother than she has known her entire life as she works with detectives to try and locate Katrina.

This story had a lot of potential. Told from alternating POV's (Katrina's before her disappearance and Cleo's after) we got to know both mother and daughter, however I felt like there were still large gaps of character development. Katrina's relationship with Doug and then the huge work project involving Doug's company was a little too coincidental for me. Throw in some court case transcripts and therapist conversations and there was a lot going on. I felt like I had a difficult time keeping up and getting invested in one storyline.

I really enjoyed this story about Katrina, a mother who goes missing and her daughter Cleo’s journey to find out what happened to her., while uncovering secrets about her mom’s past,
The story is told in dual POV’s as well as different timelines. It kept me wanting to uncover more about the story.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to read an early release of this book.

This was such a good book! I loved the characters, and their story. The dialogue was realistic and enjoyable. I was very surprised by the ending!

A mesmerizing and gripping plot, a missing mother, a semi estranged adult daughter and her drive to find her mother. I read this in one sitting and was gripped by the twists and major turns, and its another McCrieght unputdownable thriller! Loved it.

Oh no. It’s a rough one. The idea is grand but the execution is poor. I was struggling through because I enjoy a missing person story but there’s only so much unnatural speech and … one can handle.

After reading Good Material I needed a palate cleanser, and thought I'd read this mystery/thriller that comes out this summer. Unfortunately, it was not for me. College aged Cleo finds her mother missing and a bloody shoe in her Brooklyn brownstone as evidence, and discovers lies within her parents marriage. There were so many side stories and characters, which made this book very hard to follow. I found myself skimming and skipping sections altogether, as somehow a missing person/murder story bored me...which is unusual!

I absolutely loved McCreight's earlier novels Reconstructing Amelia and Where They Found her, but just haven't found the same enraptured experience from her latest novels and unfortunately like Mother, Like Daughter was the same. Kat McHugh is a mother, a wife, and a fixer for a prestigious law firm and she also has quite a dark past. Her job is about the only thing that's going right these days as she has a very fraught relationship with her college aged daughter Cleo and her marriage to Aidan is basically over at this point. Cleo comes to their Park Slope home one evening to begrudgingly meet her mother for dinner, when she finds the fire alarm on, a bloody shoe and no Kat. Told through alternating view points of Cleo after this night and Kat before, lots-- almost too much-- drama ensues. The plot had a lot going on between Kat's work cases and strangeness with her assistant Jules, Cleo and her ex-boyfriend, Kat's past, Aidan's infidelity, and the list goes on. The story would have been much better and less farfetched if things were tightened up a bit. Overall, I enjoyed it enough, but definitely not the best of McCreight's work. 3.5 stars

This book had me thinking everyone was suspicious 🧐 side eyed them all!
I felt bad for Cleo from the gecko though..
The relationship between her and her mom takes me back to the younger days and gave me all those feels.
Even when relationships can be rocky between mother and daughter the love is always still there!
Love ignites the flame to keep Cleo to keep going, to keep searching.
This book had me wanting more and more. An unforgettable page turner! Highly recommend!

This is my first book by this author and it won’t be my last! There were so many layers and it kept me guessing at every turn!!! It had me completely hooked from the first page. And that PLOT TWIST 🤯

Thank you to Penguin Random House and NetGalley for the chance to read the e-arc of Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight.

Wow, this book had me hooked from the get go! Everything Cleo McHugh believes about her parents gets knocked off kilter when she finds her family kitchen trashed including a bloody shoe belonging to her mother, corporate lawyer Kat. A distraught Cleo takes matters into her own hands and begins to investigate Kat’s disappearance, leading her to piece together some parts of her mom’s past that she sought to keep hidden. At the same time, some truths about her parents’ relationship and one of her mom’s current cases surface, causing Cleo to turn to several people for support. Not everyone has Cleo’s or Kat’s best interests at heart though, leading to even more intrigue.

There are so many twists and turns and complications, that it is anyone’s guess until the very end where the story is headed. I’ll admit that I had a feeling about one of the characters that turned out to be spot on, but that did not ruin the moment of truth for me. I was pretty happy for the resolution of this very messy but smart thriller. 5/5 star read

⭐️⭐️⭐️Well paced and entertaining thriller. For us to be lost in any story, whether that be a book or show or movie, we must give ourselves over to the suspension of disbelief. What I mean by that is, we have to have some willingness to buy in from the start.

At some point the complete lack of risk aversion from daughter Cleo, and the assumption that she would be able to do any of the investigating that she eventually does ruins that suspension of disbelief for me. There are too many breadcrumbs that didn’t make the twist as shocking as it should have been, but this is still worth the read. It reminds me of Lisa Jewell-esque thrillers. Enjoy! ✨

👍 Good for Book Clubs
🕰️ Quick read

I really enjoy reading this book. The mystery of what and who just kept the reader engaged to keep turning the page.

This book kept me hooked trying to figure out what on earth happened. It's full of family drama and I LOVE that. I was a little let down on the ending, it made sense but also felt... flat I guess. Overall, I loved reading about Cleo and her family.

Katrina is missing. Her daughter, Cleo, comes home to find the oven was left on with the chicken burnt to nothing and her mother's shoe in a pile of blod. Nothing is missing or otherwise disturbed aside from her mother. Where has she gone or who took her?
I can't cssifyo Like Mother, Like Daughter as a thriller or suspense. It was just a long, winded story that involved way too many people and way too many storylines to care about. The characters; I couldn't make myself like any of them and I certainly didn't care what happened to them. The endlaing...... okay. The book was over. It wasn't anything crazy. This book just was not for me. I always appreciate NetGalley for the advanced digital copies and for allowing me to give m honest opinion.
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This is my fave thriller of 2024 so far. 🙌🏻
Kat is an expert fixer at a top law firm, but struggling to repair her relationship with her daughter. Following a mysterious death of a client, she receives messages from someone who knows the dark parts of her past and threatens to harm her daughter. Her mission to protect her daughter and hunt to unearth the truth leads her down a dangerous path.
When her mom goes missing, Cleo begins her own relentless search for answers.
It’s a Scandal-esque legal thriller, whodunit mystery, and relationship drama all in one. Four stars for me!

Thanks @netgalley and @aaknopf for the arc!

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Thank you @netgalley for the ARC of Like Mother Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight.

This was a fast paced thriller that kept the reader guessing. It was a told from dual points of view from Kat and her daughter. The reader pieces together the story as Cleo does. I thought it was a good book, but the story was a little two dimensional for me.

Cleo comes home to find her mother missing and blood on the floor. She races to find her mother and learns she is not who she thought she was.

Katherine and Cleo are mother/daughter, with a bit of a strained, partially estranged relationship. The book goes back and forth between their POVs, giving the reader snippets of what each character thinks is going on vs what's really going on. It creates tons of tension, and I really enjoyed it. Cleo responds to her mother's phone call to come home ASAP--only to walk in and discover her mother has obviously been taken. There's blood on the floor. She calls her father (who she soon learns has moved out) for help. This launches a seriously twisty story that I thoroughly enjoyed.