A Good Marriage – Kimberly McCreight

In the latest from Kimberly McCreight, a lawyer is forced to defend an old law school friend for the murder of his wife, while trying to figure out how (of if) her marriage can be saved.  When her old friend turns out not to be the man she remembers, she works to prove his innocence in order to save herself and to give the victim some peace.

A Good Marriage explores just the opposite, not good marriages, whether it is the superficial one between the victim, Amanda, and the accused, Zach, or the broken one between Lizzie and her alcoholic husband Sam.  When Zach uses Lizzie’s broken marriage, and the steps she has taken to hide the damage from her new bosses, to force her to defend him, she goes full force, but finds a way to save her soul as well.

McCreight has become a reliable source of entertainment since Reconstructing Amelia was released in 2013, touted as that year’s Gone Girl.  While I’m not willing to put her on Gillian Flynn’s level, at least she is still writing and releasing prose.  I look forward to whatever comes next in 2-3 years.