I learned of this book via snail mail, Celadon mailed me the first chapter. I read it and immediately requested the eARC, which I luckily got! I just finished it, and wow! It started out very strong, then I got sidetracked, but once I got back to the book it was so difficult to put down! I really needed to know what happened, and just when I thought I knew what was coming next, WHAM! The author, Andy Callahan, really kept me on the edge of my seat. I don't want to leave spoilers but just know there are a lot of twists and turns. You really can't be too careful when you accept a beverage either.

Money can buy influence, silence, and a pretty convincing version of the truth. But when young women start disappearing, even the wealthiest zip codes can’t afford to keep their secrets buried forever.

Andy Callahan, what an absolutely vicious way to introduce yourself to the thriller world. If this is what you’re bringing to the table with your debut, I am already concerned for my future reading habits.

Set against the polished, privileged backdrop of Philadelphia’s Main Line, Nobody Deserves This serves up a tangled web of missing girls, fractured loyalties, family dysfunction, and the kind of suspicion that spreads faster than the truth ever could.

Sean Mulcahy has already lost his sister, Mia, and just about everything else worth holding onto. Four months after her disappearance, he’s become the convenient villain in a story nobody seems particularly interested in getting right. Then another girl vanishes, Sean is once again the last person seen with her, and suddenly his innocence is looking like a very hard sell. When a third girl disappears, the questions become considerably more sinister.

And naturally, I trusted absolutely no one. A perfectly reasonable response when everyone seems to be hiding something and the family dynamics are about as healthy as a crime scene.

What I found especially compelling was the way Callahan weaves reputation, privilege, and public perception into the mystery. In a community obsessed with appearances, being accused can be almost as devastating as being guilty. The whispers become headlines, the headlines become verdicts, and the actual truth gets buried beneath everyone else’s agenda.

The tension here isn’t built on cheap shocks. It’s the maddening uncertainty, the uncomfortable family relationships, and that persistent suspicion that the answer is sitting right in front of you, practically mocking your inability to see it. Every new clue had me reconsidering my theories, and every questionable character earned themselves a permanent spot on my imaginary suspect board.

I also loved that beneath the mystery is a story about a brother who refuses to stop looking for his sister, even when the people closest to him have stopped believing in him. That emotional undercurrent gives the suspense an extra bite.

Nobody Deserves This is sharp, engrossing, and wonderfully tangled, with enough secrets and questionable motives to keep an entire neighborhood in therapy. Callahan delivers a debut that understands one of my favorite things about a good thriller: sometimes the most dangerous person in the room is the one everyone has already decided to trust.

Andy Callahan, consider yourself officially on my radar. And to the residents of the Main Line? Your perfectly manicured lawns aren’t fooling anybody.

I enjoyed this fast paced and multi layered crime thriller. Nobody Deserves This is set in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs which is where I grew up. I loved all the local references that are weaved throughout the story. I also enjoyed the father and son main characters. Sean the son had a dream childhood and was a popular high school student athlete at a local private school. He messed up in College and he now feels responsible for his sister’s disappearance. The father Patrick is a power hungry workaholic who worked his way up from humble beginnings to becoming a multimillionaire with a luxurious lifestyle and is now a prominent figure in Main line Philadelphia society. He also blames his son for leading his daughter astray and causing her disappearance. All the family dynamics along with a fast placed plot with lots of twists and turns made this a fun and interesting read.

Thriller suspense stories tend to run through the same formulaic patterns. In tearing through NOBODY DESERVES THIS, I felt like I was reading this genre for the first time. I wanted to savor the story, but I also couldn’t flip through the pages first enough. It’s easily cracking my top reads of this year, and dare I say, in *many* years.

This story was refreshing, original, with twists and turns that left me giving up on solving the case, and instead, sitting back and enjoying the crazy ride. Make no mistake, the twists were not for shock value - they were carefully calculated nuggets that exploded on the page, causing me to sit up and exclaim, “WHAT?!” one too many times. This book was fun and I am envious of anyone who gets to read it for the first time.

If I am ever in a situation where I need to solve a crime (knock on wood), I pick Sean. His character brought a sense of levity in his voice-driven narrations in an otherwise serious story. He was the underdog that I rooted for from the get go, urging him on, while also cursing him through some of his boneheaded decisions. Getting a glimpse into the lives of him and his family, as they grapple with an unimaginable loss, you could feel them leap across the page.

Come for the story, stay for the Mulcahy family and those twists. An addictive read that will have your head spinning in those final pages.

Nobody Deserves This has a great setup: two young white women have disappeared from Philadelphia’s Main Line, and the brother of one of them has become a suspect in both cases.

Sean Mulcahy is twenty-one, kicked out of college, disowned by his incredibly wealthy father, but still desperate to find his younger sister, Mia, who vanished four months earlier. Since then, his family has fallen apart, and Sean’s own reputation has been destroyed. His father blames him for what happened, and the police have already looked at him once and let the media know it.

When a second young woman, Sarah, disappears, Sean is the last person seen speaking with her at a local bar. It's a complete nightmare for him, and I appreciated his glib tone and his efforts to continue to move forward (instead of wallowing).

When a third girl goes missing, Sean begins to suspect the cases are connected. He throws himself into his own detective work and uncovers something the police may have missed. With very few people willing to believe him, he starts investigating on his own, hoping to find Mia, clear his name, and figure out what is happening before someone else disappears.

The Main Line setting also works really well for a story about power and image. Some belief needs to be suspended, but the humorous tone that Sean uses easily slides any inconsistencies right by. I enjoyed it greatly and would love to read more from him, or anything Andy Callahan writes, again!

Publication date: January 19, 2027

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