When Gwen moved to town in high school, Claire-then known as Mac, a poor kid from a troubled family who had too much on her plate-saw what it meant to have. But at the conference's hotel bar, Mac is surprised to run into a face from a past she'd rather forget: the moneyed, effortlessly perfect Gwendolyn Whitney, Mac's foil, rival, and former best friend. Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of The Sunburn and Lady of the LakeĪ whip-smart psychological thriller from the author of Good as Gone (a New York Times Notable Book), in which a grad student becomes embroiled in a deadly rivalry that changes her into someone unrecognizable to her struggling family, her ambitious academic friends, and even herselfĬlaire 'Mac' Woods-a professor enjoying her newfound hotshot status at an academic conference-finally has the acceptance and admiration she has long craved.

And all the reader can do is stare helplessly back, mesmerized.

Amy Gentry is in utter control of this anaconda of a story as it twists, squeezes and lashes out at the reader.

'It is almost impossible to find the words for a truly original novel such as Bad Habits, a primal scream of a book that could be written only by this author at this time.

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