From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.
The Delaney family love one another dearly―it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .
If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?
This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.
The
Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy,
are the envy of all of their friends. They’re killers on the tennis
court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of
marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready
to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are Stan
and Joy so miserable?
The four Delaney children―Amy, Logan,
Troy, and Brooke―were tennis stars in their own right, yet as their
father will tell you, none of them had what it took to go all the way.
But that’s okay, now that they’re all successful grown-ups and there is
the wonderful possibility of grandchildren on the horizon.
One
night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy’s door, bleeding
after a fight with her boyfriend. The Delaneys are more than happy to
give her the small kindness she sorely needs. If only that was all she
wanted.
Later, when Joy goes missing, and Savannah is nowhere to
be found, the police question the one person who remains: Stan. But for
someone who claims to be innocent, he, like many spouses, seems to have a
lot to hide. Two of the Delaney children think their father is
innocent, two are not so sure―but as the two sides square off against
each other in perhaps their biggest match ever, all of the Delaneys will
start to reexamine their shared family history in a very new light.