Prom Mom: A Thriller

"A Laura Lippman book can be expected to tease and twist deliciously, even when, as Prom Mom is, it’s set during the difficult early months of COVID-19 and springs from the real stories of high school teens who don’t even know they’re pregnant until they go into labor. Amber, who once was at the center of such a story and suffered the consequences, crosses paths years later with Joe, who was the indifferent father of her baby. Now married and uninterested in revisiting the past, he is initially not eager to renew their acquaintance. But they both have secrets, and they both have fears, and they begin to talk. What unfolds is a tale of betrayal, resentment, reckoning and being haunted by someone who is absolutely sure he is a good guy."