Like Mother, Like Daughter is a twisty murder mystery about a missing hit power attorney.

I did not like this book. There were no heros. Although all of their secrets were revealed, none of the characters were sympathetic and there was no redemption for any of them.

Like mother, like daughter by author Kimberley is a fast paced thriller that will not let you down! It is worth the read and does not disappoint! I recommend like mother, like daughter! 4.5/5

Cleo, a student at NYU, heads to her mother Kat's house in Brooklyn for dinner, only to find chaos: dinner burning, blood staining the floor, and a bloody shoe hidden under the couch. Kat is nowhere to be found.

Both Cleo and Kat harbor numerous secrets. Kat's troubled marriage has finally crumbled, she endured a challenging upbringing in a group home, she now works as her law firm's troubleshooter, and she's grappling with an unexplained death. Meanwhile, her firm is embroiled in a high-stakes class action lawsuit over a drug's adverse effects during pregnancy, raising concerns about conflicts of interest.

Midway through the book, a heavy sigh escapes me as the narrative once again paints lawyers in a negative light—soulless and reprehensible. Yet, I can't help but interject: not all lawyers fit this mold! I swear it! While I adored "Reconstructing Amelia" and eagerly anticipated another standout from this author, "OK" is the best I can muster for this one. The characters, including the protagonists, are flawed and often unlikable. It's challenging to overlook Kat's role as a fixer for a major law firm or Cleo's history as a drug dealer. Despite this, the book isn't without merit, but it falls short of greatness in my view.

As is evident by the title, this book is mostly about the complexities in the relationship between a mother, Kat, and her daughter, Cleo. Kat is a corporate lawyer who’s considered more of a ‘fixer’ for her clients. She makes their problems go away, mainly by strong-arming or throwing money at them. But now she’s missing and because no one except her boss knows her true work, it will make finding her much more difficult.

Cleo is a 20-year-old college student who acts more like a spoiled teenager and favors her father, even though he’s clearly irresponsible and more of the ‘fun dad’ than the strict parent that Kat is. Which of course is why Cleo prefers him. She’s reluctantly meeting her mother at their house for dinner when she finds it empty – there are signs of a struggle, and her mother is nowhere to be found.

Her parents are in the middle of a separation but have decided to wait until the school year is over to tell Cleo. But once Cleo starts digging around in her mother’s life to find clues to her disappearance, Cleo uncovers the separation and so much more. Kat’s not the only one with secrets. But will Cleo puzzle it out before she becomes the next one to vanish?

The most interesting parts of the story to me were the scenes in Kat’s journal from the children’s home she grew up in. But they don’t figure too much into the story. I feel like a book about that experience would have been much darker and more suspenseful. Corporate law and obnoxious clients aren’t nearly as interesting to me. Neither is a selfish, immature daughter who makes the same bad decisions over and over. Yes, she grows throughout the story, but it’s a bit of a stretch that her character would have matured that much, that quickly. And the twist towards the end, well, it’s foreshadowed so much that you’re basically just waiting to see that you were right.

But the book is a page-turner - just because many of the characters are unlikeable doesn’t mean the writing’s not good! And I loved the resolution of what happened to Kat because I had an inkling of it, but not all, and it’s unique but realistic. It’s definitely worth giving this one a shot.

Cleo, an NYU student, goes to her mother Kat’s house in Brooklyn for dinner. When she arrives the dinner is burning, there is blood on the floor and there’s a bloody shoe under the couch. Kat is gone.

Both Cleo and Kat have many secrets. For Kat, her troubled marriage has finally imploded, she grew up in a group home, she’s now her law firm’s fixer and she’s dealing with an unexplained death. Her firm is handling a major class action suit involving deaths and damages from a drug taken during pregnancy and a potential conflict of interest.

Less than halfway through I gave a heavy sigh as, once again, it’s terrible, awful, soulless lawyers. Really, honestly, not all lawyers are so bad. I swear to you!

I loved RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA and have been hoping for another book as good from this author. This isn’t that. Lots of terrible people, including, if we’re being honest, the two protagonists. Are we meant to forget that one’s a fixer for a major law firm and one has been a drug dealer? I think we are. Not a bad book, by any means, but just OK, by my estimation.

After coming home and discovering her mother’s bloody shoe, Cleo realizes that her mother (Katrina) has gone missing.
The book jumps back and forth from present day search for Kat to several days before she goes missing.
In addition to the mysterious disappearance, the book focuses on the mother- daughter dynamic between Cleo and her perfectionist, strict mother. Cleo discovers that her mother is not who she thought she was and that she’s been involved with some suspect people.
The book was a bit predictable but engaging. I was more interested in the mother- daughter relationship dynamic than the thriller aspect. It wasn’t a bad read and I’m sure lots of thriller fans will love it.

This book was very good. I really enjoyed the way the book was constructed - not just the two different points of views from the two main characters, but the addition of transcripts, court documents, etc that made the story feel dynamic and engaging. The story itself was great and the twists were well done. I did feel there were moments that dragged a little towards the middle but overall the story felt like it moved at a fairly quick pace, which matched the urgency of the story itself. I also enjoyed the way that all of the information that was provided tied together by then end. It didn't feel like there were any loose ends, which made for a satisfying read. Grateful to Netgalley for the read, I'll definitely be buying a copy!

This was one of those books where it seems there's multiple stories all going on at once and you're trying to figure out how all the pieces get put together. Thankfully, they did eventually all piece together but it was slow-going. The twist at the end was a good shocker for me and I enjoyed the chapters written from both Cleo and Katrina's perspectives. I didn't give it more stars because the story just wasn't my cup of tea.

Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!

This book hooked me from the first few pages. Stayed up late reading it. I loved the mother daughter backstory along with the shifting timelines. Really great thriller to kick off my year

At times I found this book hard to follow. It felt like it jumped around a lot. In the end though I enjoyed it and wanted to see how it ended. Glad I stuck it out bc I didn’t see that ending coming.

My first time reading a book by this author but not my last. Suspenseful, full of twists. Who is telling the truth? Who to trust? Secrets finally revealed. Sub plots tying together to a startling conclusion. A book you won't want to put done. Recommend. Received an ARC thru NetGalley and this is my voluntary honest review.

Thank you Netgalley for an early copy of this story in exchange for an honest review.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. It was a solid read (probably closer to 3.5 stars). I was not expecting the twists that came throughout the story and felt like the pacing was great because I was always ready to keep reading. I also LOVE when books have chapters with different perspectives (email or text exchanges, news articles, therapist notes, etc). I think it makes the story more interesting and this one had a lot! I definitely enjoyed this one.

Katrina is an overworked NYC attorney and a quite rigid parent, who has little time for her husband Aidan and much less time for college-aged Cleo. Things between mother and daughter are quite contentious but when Kat goes missing, Cleo will do just about anything to find out what happened. As she digs deeper into her mom's past, the stakes become much more dangerous. This accelerated thriller is perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell.

This was a solid read. The story did go in multiple directions at times but McCreight does a good job on keeping the reader on track and guessing at the same time. It does get congested at times with how many different characters are introduced. It would be a 4 if not for all the characters the reader has to keep up with. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of this book.

Kimberly McCreight is a delight to read, and she has a brand new thriller coming July of 2024! Those of us that are daughters - and mothers - recognize the complexities of the relationship. Our daughters are the most beautiful extensions of ourselves, but they are also their own selves making their own way. That's exactly what Cleo is trying to do as a young college woman trying to distance herself from Katrina, her mother. Cleo finds her mother too traditional, too rigid, too judgmental - but she reluctantly agrees to go home for dinner one night only to find a pool of blood and her mother missing. Despite their troubled relationship, she immediately dives into what possibly could've happened to such a bland, commonplace woman...only, she finds out her mother wasn't that bland after all. How many enemies did one woman have, anyway? And can her own father be trusted? As Cleo begins to investigate, she finds that she has her mother's tenacity and shrewdness - as they say, LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER.

What a fun read! There are dual timelines and dual perspectives, and watching the story finally come together towards the end was truly a delight. A seasoned thriller reader might guess at some of the reveals, but the final twist was so genius in its simplicity that I laughed! I enjoyed how various parts of the story connected and found this the story-weaving to be masterful.

A must-read for those who are mothers and those who have mothers; you'll cheer on this dynamic duo and their troubled relationship. Will Cleo and Katrina have happy endings? Read on - this is a domestic thriller that you'll definitely want to add to your summer TBR!

A solid 4.5 stars from me! Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for the ARC! This thriller was for sure not a ‘popcorn thriller.’ The book was full of many intertwining characters from different walks in both Katrina and Cleo’s lives. And each person had a part to play in the story. I thoroughly enjoyed this read and would recommend to a friend. I would love to read more of Kimberly’s books now!

I have never read anything by this author before, and now I want to read everything! I could not put this book down, and loved all the twists. It kept me guessing until the end. I think the way the author painted the picture of the relationship between Cleo and Kat was so relatable. If you love a good, twisty mystery, this is the book for you.

This was my first read by Kimberly McCreight and I throughly enjoyed it! I feel like I have barely put this book down in the last day & a half.

I really enjoyed the different POVs of the mom and the daughter. I liked that we were seeing what happened up to the present timeline while being in the present timeline with Cleo.

There were some parts I felt didn’t make sense-no spoilers but there’s a part where Cleo’s boyfriend comes over to her childhood home but I have no recollection at any point of the book, of her telling him where she lived. Not to mention he just randomly showed up… I felt like I was missing something or some part of the story.

Also, during one of Cleo’s chapters she keeps calling the detective, Wilson, since we hadn’t read about detective Wilson in a few chapters I was questioning who she was. I felt the author should have been referring to her as Detective Wilson, as there were so many side characters in this book-mainly females.

All in all, I truly enjoyed this book, I loved trying to guess who the perp was and all the other plots going on.

Thank you NetGalley & Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for this ARC.

Thank you Netgalley and publisher for allowing me to read and review!

While this book does a good job at showing the complexity that is a mother and daughter relationship, I feel as though the premise was lost to me. There were many instances of me rolling my eyes because there were no context for the strong emotions being displayed by the main characters. In addition, the multiple plot twists and lack of further information was so very confusing. I was left with so many unanswered questions and things weren't explained by the end.

Overall, I rated it 2 stars because of the confusing plot and shallow character motivations.

This book kept me guessing until the very end! Kat, a corporate “fixer,” has a complicated relationship with her daughter and husband. Told from alternating point of views, you slowly find out the intricate details of these relationships and how Kat’s fraught past leads to her disappearance.

I really enjoyed this book and thought it was very well done. Highly recommend.