“There’s this song by The Mountain Goats called ‘No Children’ about this horrible, toxic marriage, and in the chorus he describes himself as drowning with his wife and holding hands as they pull each other down. The couples’ backgrounds - the Oullettes’ dead-end poverty versus the Richards’ suspicious flight from opulence - is left for another out-of-towner, Detective Ian Bird, as well as readers, to parse and untangle.
The imperious Richards, Instagram-obsessed influencer Adrienne especially, quickly fall into a master/servant relationship with Lizzie and her husband, Dwayne. Into the fixed and predetermined life of lakeside Copper Falls arrive the Richards, a wealthy, beautiful couple who rent Lizzie’s property and present a glamorous counterpoint to the raw scrape of her marriage.
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