3.75 stars rounded up! I really enjoyed this mystery from author Disha Bose. She is originally from India and now resides in Ireland. I enjoyed how she brought aspects of being a woman in India into the story with the character of Mishti. It gave this neighborhood thriller some depth and made it a little different from the usual thriller filled with a neighborhood of suspects. Ciara is the beautiful queen bee of the block, ruling over the women like it is still HS. She has a perfect life...on social media. As we know, appearances can be deceiving. Lauren and Mishti are the oddballs odd in the neighborhood, both different from the other women, each in their own way. Ciara turns up dead- who did it and why? This was a fun and fast read.

I loved this book. Disha Bose is able to capture what so many parents, and in particular, mothers, are thinking even as they try to convey a happy life, happy wife, happy mother outlook to friends and family. The inner dialogue is raw, real, and at times, sarcastic and funny, which made it all the more genuine.

2⭐
Genre ~ domestic neighborhood drama
Setting ~ Ireland
Publication date ~ April 4, 2023
Page Count ~291 (39 chapters p+e)
Audio length ~ 8 hours 39 minutes
Narrator ~ Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan
POV ~ multiple 3rd
Featuring ~ debut, 2 parts ~ then & now, dated chapters, infidelity, references to suicide, slow burn, verbal abuse

Mishti, Lauren & Ciara are our main characters and I did not like or care about what happened to any of them, not a one. That goes for the husbands, too.

Mishti is in arranged marriage with Parth. Lauren is our bohemian mom and girlfriend to Sean. Ciara, our social media influencer (blah), is married to Gerry and is dead and we don't know why or whodunit until the end. I liked the mystery involving this, but not the why.

I liked that these mom's each bring something different to the friendship circle, so that was nice that they each have their own personality, but that's not to say they have a great one.

Overall, this was very slow moving for me with a lot of character development and full of drama. I was not a fan of the ending either. Really Lauren??

Side note ~ the cover looks cool.

A glimpse into three suburban couples homes and lives. They all lead what looks like picture perfect lives, until someone winds up dead and all the Dirty Laundry starts getting aired. This book was so fun! Completely unputdownable and full of twisty turns!

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC.
A great domestic neighborhood thriller that follows 3 couples in a small village. Each have their own "dirty laundry" but also secrets that intertwine with each other. The first page of the book lets you know that someone has died but then fills in the backstory keeping you guessing to the end of who did it.

This didn't meet expectations, unfortunately. There is promise, however, when one recognizes this is a debut offering. If/when the author writes another, I'll still give it a try.

Dirty Laundry was okay, not as good as I had hoped. The circumstances of Ciara’s death were somewhat surprising and some of the characters had good “dirty laundry”. However, most of the characters came across as sad and pathetic. There were multiple times where I wished the story would move forward faster.

DIRTY LAUNDRY is a debut mystery/thriller novel by @dishabossy and I am here to tell you that this is an author you should be watching if you like this genre! Thank you to the author, @netgalley and the publisher @randomhouse for the audio-ARC.

This story takes place in a small Irish village and from the beginning of the book, you know that the "Queen Bee" or "Mean Girl" of the neighborhood adults has been found dead - but no one knows how or why. From there the story of the previous months intermixed with childhood flashbacks and reflections unravel through multi-POV characters and culminates with that answer.

I was completely rapt by this story from the jump. It was full of messy characters with massive faults and long histories. The pettiness, the manipulative tactics, and the fact that this lady was so universally feared/hated that there was a long list of potential motives for her demise - it was all exactly what I needed from a thriller. This one reads like a soap opera in the best way possible.

It helped that I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE NARRATOR, @chandrikanm.art. She did a stellar job of bringing all these crazy characters to life and helping to expose all their dirty secrets! Highly recommend this if you are the kind of person that is always interested in hearing the tea. ☕🫖🍵

I will be looking forward to checking out both the author's and narrator's future projects!

I finally got out all my spooky season decorations this weekend and got deep into some spooky crafting while cackling like a witch and listening to audiobooks. Pretty much felt like I was living my best life! When do you get your spooky decorations out?

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Not for me. Just too much drama. Not enough to enjoy. Thank you for this arc in exchange of an honest review.

This was such a quick read and had me interested from the start, but I wished the characters were more developed.. The idea of this story is great because no one wants their dirty laundry aired to others. I wanted to love this story, but I did find it lacking in many areas.

Special thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This book really sounded promising and I had high hopes of reading a twisty thriller, hoping it would keep me guessing and on the edge of my seat, but it was not that at all. It really felt like I was reading a trashy reality TV show about whiny housewives and their stupid affairs. The ending was terrible and not executed well at all. Don't waste your time.

The chapter starts off with a discovery... and the story makes a full circle. I really really enjoyed reading this one. It does follow dates as the beginning of chapters and it makes perfect sense in the end.

I was hooked from the start and I was kept guessing all the way through. It's a fast read and well- written. Highly recommend.

Thank you NetGalley and Ballantine Books for giving me the opportunity to read this!

I love that from the beginning we know what’s going to happen and read the entire book trying to figure out the who. This was genius and such a twist at the end. I love that I couldn’t and didn’t figure out all of the ending. I absolutely will read works from this author again.

Dirty Laundry is a new thriller, suspense, twisty novel by Disha Bose, a debut author. It's about a few different families in a neighborhood which of course each have their own pros and cons. Ciara is the influencer-mom. You know, perfect family and perfect lives. But that's rarely the case behind the scenes, is it? Mishti is newer to the neighborhood, raising her daughter in a new place after leaving an unhappy arranged marriage. Lauren is more of the "hippie" type of parent, all "love the earth", etc. She's less liked than the other mothers because she's different. You'd think she'd be the one to be found dead but instead, we find Ciara. What happened to her? And better yet, why?

Dirty Laundry was a good debut and I'm looking forward to reading her upcoming works.

Did not enjoy this one. Quite ridiculous. Tried too hard to be twisty and turny, and just fell flat.

Thank you NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Ballantine Books for my copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion. This book was not for me. There was entirely too much drama and it made me feel incredibly irritated and depressed. I can get enough of that in my own life. This felt like an episode of really bad reality TV.

Thanks to netgalley.com for this ARC.

This was a fun, page turner. Told from the perspective of a few different characters all within the same small community in Ireland it focuses on modern problems that social media causes. I felt that I was guessing on the who did it part of the story pretty much towards the end. I enjoyed the interactions the characters had with each other and how it all tied together.

I will definitely be on the lookout for other books by this author.

This is a neighborhood drama in the vein of Big Little Lies. There are so many lies and secrets, that you won’t know who to trust. It will keep you guessing and on your toes!

Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose tells the story of three women who live in the same village in Ireland. They all have different issues going on and lots of secrets. One of them gets murdered, and all hell breaks loose. I would call this a domestic thriller. The first part of the book was a little bit slow, but it picks up towards the end. If you like books about female friendships this is the book for you. All three characters were someone unlikable, but that is not a dealbreaker for me. Sometimes I think that makes for a very interesting read, which it did in this case. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

this book brings thre wives that live on the same street but have totqlly different lives. the way the story is structured they all have to deal with wach other in some circumstances yert they do not all harbor the smae feelings about each other. It is a book that pulls you in fronthe first page. You want to know how life wrks for thee three women.
I really enjoyed thiws book and kook forward to reading another from this author