Only if you're lucky : a novel

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Title:

Only if you're lucky : a novel

Author:

Willingham, Stacy, author.

Vacker, Karissa, narrator.

Summary:

Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can't say no―something daring, or starved, or maybe even envious. And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls, Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It's a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she's been in since the end of high school, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered... and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace. -- Amazon.

Edition:

Unabridged.

Physical Description:

8 audio discs (10 hr. 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

Detective and mystery fiction.

Audiobooks.

Subject Term:

Women college students -- Fiction.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Roommates -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

South Carolina -- Fiction.

Author(s):

Vacker, Karissa,

Publisher:

Macmillan Audio,

Publication Date:

2024

2023

ISBN:

9781250329578

Publication Information:

[New York] : Macmillan Audio, [2024]

℗2023

Call Number:

CDB WILLINGHAM

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607003701300	New Adult Fiction Books on CDs	WILLINGHAM Stacy	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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Summary

"Reader Vacker does a remarkable job.... Mystery and true crime fans will be drawn in and ultimately satisfied by this complex, tense tale read expertly by a talented narrator." -- Booklist on All the Dangerous Things

A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things.

And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls, Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It's a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she's been in since the end of high school, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered... and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.

From the author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things comes a tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging, about loyalty, envy, and betrayal--another gripping novel from an author quickly becoming the gold standard in psychological suspense.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

Author Notes

STACY WILLINGHAM is the New York Times, USA Today and internationally bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark, All the Dangerous Things and Only If You're Lucky. Her debut, A Flicker in the Dark, was a 2022 finalist for the Book of the Month's Book of the Year award, Goodreads Choice Best Debut award, Goodreads Choice Best Mystery & Thriller award, and ITW's Best First Novel award. Her work has been translated in more than thirty languages. Before turning to fiction, she was a copywriter and brand strategist for various marketing agencies. She earned her B.A. in magazine journalism from the University of Georgia and M.F.A. in writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, Britt, and Labradoodle, Mako.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The latest from Willingham (All the Dangerous Things) is a cunning if somewhat implausible campus thriller. As Margot nears the end of her achingly lonely freshman year--a far cry from the adventurous one she'd imagined with her bestie, Eliza, who had died under suspicious circumstances weeks after their high school graduation--at South Carolina's Rutledge College, she can't fathom why Lucy Sharpe, one of the school's most popular coeds, would invite her to room with her and her wingwomen in the historic off-campus house they're renting for the summer. Still, Margot leaps at the offer, plunging into what turns out to be a maelstrom of secrets, mind games, and possibly murder. Despite her natural reserve, Margot clicks with the uninhibited Lucy, sliding into a sidekick role similar to the one she played with Eliza. However, as the summer's booze-soaked partying with the neighboring fraternity winds on, Lucy's darker side emerges, especially after the arrival of prospective frat pledge Levi Butler--Eliza's old boyfriend, who was reportedly the last person to see her alive. Flash forward several months: Levi's dead, Lucy has disappeared, and Margot's narration has become increasingly unreliable. Though the twisty narrative grows far-fetched as it nears the climax, Willingham's prose remains evocative, and her deep dive into the thorny nature of female friendship rings true. Though this doesn't rank among the author's best work, it's still a gripping ride. (Jan.)