This book is a domestic thriller. It dives into the lives of neighbors and the twists their lives take. This book is a quick read the ending was just ok for me. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.

This book kind of reminded me of Big Little Lies, where everyone seems perfect but is hiding something. It was a fun fast read and I would definitely recommend it! I received a free copy of this book from netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

If you like domestic mysteries like Big Little Lies, this is a must-read. Ciara Dunphy lives in small-town Ireland, and is the perfect mommy influencer with the great house and the perfect kids. Lauren Doyle is the social outcast earth mama next door with the messy kids and do-nothing husband. Mishti is the transplant from Calcutta, in an unloving arranged marriage. And then Ciara is found dead in her own home. Compelling storytelling- I flew through this. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you so much for the opportunity to read Dirty Laundry! Overall, I felt like this novel was wonderfully written. I would agree that it does read as more of a Women's Fiction;General Fiction piece over that of a Thriller. The characters were fleshed out beautifully and I appreciated the backstories associated with each. I did feel as though the ending was a bit rushed and a bit unsettling, though perhaps that is what the author intended? Ending aside, if you're looking for well-constructed characters and interpersonal/relationship conflict, you've got to give this book a read.

Dirty Laundry, by Disha Bose, tells the story of a group of housewives, living in a small Irish village. A few of the characters are well-drawn and nuanced. For the most part, however, this is a story of "mean girls" grown up, only in Ireland. There is a limited amount of suspense, and an abundance of deplorable behavior, sufficient to cause transatlantic concern about the state of marriage and friendship. This is a generous two-star read for me. Thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing for the opportunity to read a digital ARC.

Dirty Laundry is Mean Girls – all grown up. The story centers around three women in an Irish village. Ciara, Misthi, and Lauren. Ciara seems to have it all. A loving husband, two beautiful children and a rising career as an influencer. Misthi is from India. She is in an arranged marriage with one child. Misthi is questioning a past decision that would have changed her life. Lauren is the misfit. She always has been the outcast. She grew up in the village and has a history with some of the other moms. The storyline was difficult for me to enjoy. The characters made decisions that I felt no rational person would make. The husbands were basically wimps. The ending, however, did surprise me.

this book was ridiculous! I hated the characters from the very beginning.... I could not even finish this one. they were all snobby and just not pleasant. DNF at 30%

Dirty Laundry...

Now that's something I have a lot of...

Just Kidding

Isn't it funny how we put a play on words. "I have mountains of dirty laundry to do" vs. "Don't air out your dirty laundry". Neither phrase sounds very appealing to me BUT this book sure did!!!

Disha Bose, you are my spirit animal!

I don't know how you did it but you completely left me speechless. Lets me try to get my thoughts together so I can do this book some justice.

First, it's a 5 star and don't let anyone else tell you different. They would be lying, and we don't like liars.

This book right here has every key component of an incredible thriller in addition to a wild mystery. The characters are multi-dimensional and incredibly realistic. The plot was realistic and genuinely believable and the the chapters flowed like hot lava!!

Give me more Disha Bose!

Here is a little teaser about Dirty Laundry :

She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it.

Ciara Dunphy has it all—a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about mothering, style, and influencer success—a picture-perfect life is easy money on Instagram. But behind the filters, reality is less polished.

Enter Mishti Guha: Ciara’s best friend. Ciara welcomed Mishti into her inner circle for being . . . unlike the other mothers in the group. Discontent in a marriage arranged for her by her parents back in Calcutta, Mishti now raises her young daughter in a country that is too cold, among children who look nothing like her. She wants what Ciara has—the ease with which she moves through the world—and, in that sense, Mishti might be exactly like the other mothers.

And there’s earth mother Lauren Doyle: born, bred, and the butt of jokes in their village. With her disheveled partner and children who run naked in the yard, they’re mostly a happy lot, though ostracized for being the singular dysfunction in Ciara’s immaculate world. When Lauren finds an unlikely ally in Mishti, she decides that her days of ridicule are over.

Then Ciara is found murdered in her own pristine home, and the house of cards she’d worked so hard to build comes crumbling down. Everyone seems to have something to gain from Ciara’s death, so if they don’t want the blame, it may be the perfect time to air their enemies’ dirty laundry.

In this dazzling debut novel, Disha Bose revolutionizes age-old ideas of love and deceit. What ensues is the delicious unspooling of a group of women desperate to preserve themselves.

Wow when they say don’t air your dirty laundry they really mean it! It’s a great book and one you don’t want to put down! It’s so good!

"Dirty Laundry" by Disha Bose is steamy, turbulent story of friends, neighbors, spouses, infidelity, insecurity and jealousy. A nice neighborhood, stirred by the new neighbors and the drama they dish. A fun murder mystery! Thank you NetGalley, the author and publisher for the review copy. All opinions are my own.

Three smart women and their rather tedious husbands live on a residential estate in Ireland . Ciara, Mishti and Lauren suffer a transactional type of friendship built on power, prestige, and necessity. The three women are well written and you feel for two of them and dislike one until a murder happens and we are reading intently to discover who murdered her. Fast read, good ending,

Ciara, Mishti and Lauren are neighbors in a small Irish village. They have different backgrounds - Ciara gives the impression of having the perfect life and family; Mishti and Parth have a picture-perfect immigrant story and Lauren is ostracized for being 'weird' and having an apparent dysfunctional family. Then Ciara is found murdered in her pristine home and there's no one to blame.

Mishti and Ciara are best friends whose friendship is on the brink of collapse because of Lauren while Lauren and Ciara started their relationship in the most wrong way. Their dynamic felt like Pit bulls having fierce and wild fights and this book was delicious to read. DIRTY LAUNDRY unapologetically captures the expectations about motherhood and wife - there are moments of "better parenting" and Bose digs deep into the despair about lack of time and self-care.

For this mother and wife, some struggles were very relatable and I was nodding in agreement. The bitterness, jealousy, animosity and helplessness felt so tangible, balanced by hilarious and unbelievable instances. This book shines a spotlight on the needs, lack of privacy x physical and emotional appreciation. The most interesting part is immersing in the characters' backstory and for someone judging Lauren at first, you even feel bad for her after learning more about her past.

This novel also has sharp observations on the marriage, branching into love and deceit. Bose provides a close look into arranged marriage and the way marriage can deteriorate over the time. Furthermore, some unique aspects of this book are the exploration of Indian family (culture) and the sneak peek into the mind of a social media influencer. This is a literary thriller heavy on literary, when the mystery (surrounding the murder) becomes backdrop. I thought the ending felt rushed and wouldn't have minded reading 50+ pages.

DIRTY LAUNDRY is a domestic drama about imperfect lives that readers will want to read when feeling petty. I overall had a 'fun/satisfying' reading experience and I am excited for Bose's future works. A solid debut!

I loved the writing style of the author and really enjoyed this book from start to finish. I’m already looking forward to her next book.

Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose

She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it.

Ciara Dunphy has it all—a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about mothering, style, and influencer success—a picture-perfect life is easy money on Instagram. But behind the filters, reality is less polished.

Enter Mishti Guha: Ciara’s best friend. Ciara welcomed Mishti into her inner circle for being . . . unlike the other mothers in the group. Discontent in a marriage arranged for her by her parents back in Calcutta, Mishti now raises her young daughter in a country that is too cold, among children who look nothing like her. She wants what Ciara has—the ease with which she moves through the world—and, in that sense, Mishti might be exactly like the other mothers.

And there’s earth mother Lauren Doyle: born, bred, and the butt of jokes in their village. With her disheveled partner and children who run naked in the yard, they’re mostly a happy lot, though ostracized for being the singular dysfunction in Ciara’s immaculate world. When Lauren finds an unlikely ally in Mishti, she decides that her days of ridicule are over.

Then Ciara is found murdered in her own pristine home, and the house of cards she’d worked so hard to build comes crumbling down. Everyone seems to have something to gain from Ciara’s death, so if they don’t want the blame, it may be the perfect time to air their enemies’ dirty laundry.

Out now!

When Ciara, a mother and social influencer, is discovered murdered, everyone’s secrets are fair game. Bose focuses on Ciara, but also on Mishti and Lauren, two other mothers in the neighborhood. Mishti, who Ciara claims as her best friend, is from India and living in an unhappy arranged marriage, while Lauren is looked down upon as a mother and ostracized because of Ciara’s opinion of her. All three have crucial things to hide.

I really enjoyed this book. The characters all felt very real, even Ciara when we got glimpses behind her perfect facade. The mystery of who killed Ciara was really suspenseful as well-there were so many possible suspects. The ending was a real shocker and has stayed with me. I would recommend this book.

This book sounded so interesting…. Perfect life you’d kill to have. Friendships, relationships and love are tested in this book. The book was hard for me to get in to and didn’t draw me in as I had hoped it would. Overall, the book was just ok for me.

Dirty Laundry was such an enjoyable read! A fast-paced suspenseful read that was both a social commentary and pure domestic thriller entertainment, I could not put it down. Drama unfolds between three mothers and their families, ultimately leading to a sort of whodunit mystery when one of them is found dead. This book gives every character motive, and sets up an ending that is nearly impossible to predict. I would highly recommend this book!

Ciara presents a perfect life to her Instagram followers as well as the ladies in the neighborhood. Ciara becomes good friends with neighbor Mishti and neighbor Lauren is the outcast in the community. Behind closed doors they are all miserable.
One of them ends up dead but anyone in the neighborhood could be responsible for it.

I thought this book was easy to read and is an interesting novel about relationships rather than the murder mystery. You find out in the last part of the book who is responsible for the murder. Most of it is just breaking apart the 3 women’s relationships and how miserable everyone truly is. Overall I enjoyed this book.

I read "Dirty Laundry" by Disha Bose on NetGalley. This book takes place in an Irish town where everyone knows everyone and the cliques among the women are intense. The book focuses on three women: Lauren, who grew up in the town and came back to raise her kids, but has no friends, Ciara, the golden woman who moved there and everyone wants to be her friend, and Mishti, who moved there from India and was good friends with Ciara but is now second guessing that decision. Ciara is found dead and everyone is a possible suspect. I enjoyed this book and it kept me guessing until the end.

This book is a sort of soap opera about an influencer and her friends and neighbors in a small Irish village. They are all very unhappy and emotionally confused women. Ciara the influencer married for money not love and wants to be loved and admired by all. She puts details about her perfect home and family out there for all to see, but looks can be deceiving on the internet. Mishti is from India and is in an arranged marriage she didn't want because she was afraid to follow her heart. She is very shy and has no friends so Ciara befriends her. Lauren grew up in the village but she is still, and has always been, an outsider. She lives behind Ciara's mansion in a tiny home left to her by her grandmother and is the antithesis of that "perfect wife and mother". She lives with her ne'er-do-well boyfriend and their three wild kids. She wants to be friends with Mishti and is envious of Ciara. But as they say, three's a crowd. As the women air their dirty laundry on the internet, relationships falter. There is a death early in the book, and we spend the remainder of the book going back and learning more about the women and their husbands, trying to figure out who did it. Really it could have been any of them. The author tells the story in chapters with the date and time (pay attention) told by the various characters. We learn more about them and their backgrounds in this way. The story was interesting and the writing good. My biggest problem with the book was the fact that most of the characters were truly unlikeable. I felt sorry for Mishti and almost felt sorry for Lauren. Ciara was truly awful, caring only about herself and what the world thought of her. The ending was a bit of a surprise. All in all, the book was okay-not my favorite but not a total flop either.

Reading Between the Wines book review #45/115 for 2023:
Rating: 2.5 🍷 🍷
Book 🎧: Dirty Laundry
Author: Disha Bose
Genre: Multicultural Interest | Mystery & Thrillers | Women's Fiction
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Sipping thoughts: This book left me with 2 dichotomies of feelings. I was interested and engaged in the storyline, albeit I did not love the characters, especially Ciara. I was all into the story and who actually killed Ciara but was so disgusted with some of the ways her character acted. I can get over that as there is something to be said about a character that triggers so many feelings. But the actual mystery behind what happened was so lackluster and the events that happened after that was even more like what in the bleep just happened. I did enjoy the premise and the writing but just not the ending.

Cheers and thank you to @NetGalley and @RandomHousePublishingGroupBallantine for an advanced copy of @TheOnlySurvivors.

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