When Cleo's mom, Kat, goes missing she heads down two different paths: one to find her mother, the other to figure out who her mother really is. Kat did not have a good life. Abandoned as a young child, she is sent to Haven House, a home for girls, There was a lot of abuse, fear, and secrets that impacted Kat her whole life, even in how she parents Cleo. Cleo's life is the exact opposite of how her mother grew up. She is privileged, loved, and well taken care of. She begins to rebel due to feeling suffocated with pressure from her mom. At the time Kat goes missing, she and Cleo aren't really speaking. Riddled with a mix of fear, love, and guilt, Cleo takes it upon herself to find her mother, no mater how much danger she puts herself in. Cleo quickly learns can only trust herself to find her mom because everyone, even those she would never expect, are suspects. Also, is Kat's past or her present as a "fixer" lawyer what put her in danger?

This book is filled with twists, secrets, betrayal, suspense, danger, and intrigue. The dual POV (Cleo and Kat's) worked really well to layer in the twists and show the emotions of both women. The way Kimberly McCreight plays with the timeline was fantastic in my opinion. Kat's POV was leading up to her going missing. Cleo's POV was everything after Kat disappears. There are also flashbacks for both, Kat at Haven House, and Cleo in therapy. It was just a fun and unique way to get this story told. There were times I thought I knew what was happening, and then something would happen that would through me off. There was a great mix of detail and vagueness to keep me guessing. This book was just so, so good.

When a college student comes home to food burning on the stove and her steadfast rock of a mother missing, she doesn't know what is going on. Then things really spiral out of control. Who is Cleo's mom really? This will appeal to fans of domestic suspense.

Mother/daughter relationships are often fraught with strong emotions and Kimberly McCreight has used that emotional connection as the base for this semi thriller. Cleo, a college student, arrives home for a planned luncheon with her mother, with whom she has a strained relationship. She finds burning food, a bloody shoe and no mother. As she gets deeper into the mystery secrets evolve about her mother, her parent’s relationship and her mother’s actual job.
McCreight tells the story from both the mothers and daughters points of view, interspersed with a therapists records which kept my interest from the first page to the last. I did struggle a bit with the Darden angle although it finally all fell into place by the end. All in all a good read.
Many thanks to Kimberly McCreight, Knopf, and NetGalley for affording me the opportunity to read an arc of this book, to be published on 7-30. Three and a half stars.

I absolutely loved this book! Like Mother, Like Daughter is gripping and psychologically twisted which will keep you reading until the very end! Please add this one to your reading list! Thanks to NetGalley & Knoft publishing for providing an ARC in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own. Rating: 5 stars Publication Date: July 30, 2024

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER is a really well plotted mystery with a lot of moving pieces that fit together nicely in the end.

When Cleo arrives at her parents’ home for dinner, she finds food burning in the oven and one of her mother’s expensive shoes with a big smear of blood on it. As the police search for Kat, Cleo also embarks on a hunt to find her mom, who turns out to have a much more complicated life than Cleo expected. Because Kat is a fixer - not a patent lawyer, like Cleo thought - and one of her clients could be to blame. Or is it Cleo’s dangerous ex boyfriend? Or perhaps Kat’s painful past while growing up in an orphanage is catching up with her.

Kimberly McCreight moves back and forward in time, and uses diary entries and court documents to tell the story. Points of view alternate between Kat and Cleo and as you read, different pieces of the story fall into place. LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER explores mother/daughter relationships and kept me guessing the whole time I was reading. It’s the perfect summer mystery escape.

Thank you to NetGalley and publisher Knopf for an early digital copy of LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER in exchange for my honest feedback.

This was a good popcorn mystery/thriller. I liked McCreight's other book, Reconstructing Amelia, and this one was a great easy read while I was on vacation. There were a lot of side mysteries and tangents that were a little distracting, but overall it was solid!

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for sending me this book!

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight is a fast-paced thriller set in Brooklyn. Cleo arrives home and discovers her mother, KAt, has gone missing. The story quickly moves along from there using a back-and-forth narrative between the present day, told in the voices of both Kat and Clea, as well as from Kat's journal from the early 1990s. Slowly the secrets become unveiled and the mystery of where Kat might be deeepens. Read and enjoy!

When a mother goes missing, her young daughter finds herself racing to save her after realizing she can’t trust the people closest to them. A few parts were super predictable, but there are a lot of side plots/mysteries going on that keep you guessing (corrupt lawyers, big pharma, shady foster home, affairs, etc.) Watching a tumultuous mother daughter relationship evolve as they learned more about each other was the best part.

I love a good suspense thriller, and this IS a good suspense thriller. College student, mother-daughter relationship with a mysterious past to unfold,

Thank you to NetGalley for this eARC copy gifted in exchange for my honest review.

What great book! I really enjoyed that this was a book that kept me guessing. I kept thinking that I knew what had happened but just when I was almost 100% sure, something else would be revealed to make me second-guess that.

Like Mother Like Daughter is a well-written, smart, and engaging suspense/psychological thriller telling the story of disappearance of Kat and her daughter Cleo, who first discovers her mother is missing. The two have a difficult relationship and have been estranged for a few months, Kat and her husband are separated, and Kat is a “fixer” for a successful law firm representing a pharmaceutical company that is being sued after it comes out that a new drug has caused permanent birth defects/health complications, and even death in babies after the mothers took the drug believing it was safe. As layers of Kat’s and Cleo’s lives are uncovered through flashbacks, and as we learn more and more about the complicated relationships they have had with a long list of possible suspects, the reader finds it difficult to determine who is behind Katz’s disappearance. Her own husband, who desperately needs the large amount of money she had set aside for Cleo, Cleo’s ex, someone from Kat’s past, or even a neighbor, client, or colleague. Mixed in with the intrigue is Cleo’s rapid understanding of her mother’s deep and undying love for her daughter, and now as the clock ticks away, minimizing the chances of finding her mother alive, Cleo desperately searches for the individual responsible for this crime and for the chance to repair their damaged relationship.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Knopf, and of course Kimberly McKreight for the opportunity to read an e-ARC of this incredible book.

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight is about an NYU student (Cleo) who is slightly estranged from her mother and arrives at her childhood home for dinner in an effort to start repairing their relationship only to discover blood on the floor and burnt dinner in the oven! This leads Cleo to do her own investigating to help find her mother and in the meantime discover more about her mother’s past.

This was a fast paced mystery that I enjoyed! It had a unique writing style in that the POV of Cleo started at the day of the disappearance and moved forward. Her mom’s POV started before the disappearance and moved closer to that day. Definitely a good summer beach read!

There was so much going on in this book! Every plot point, every character, every conversation propelled the story forward and made it such a compelling read. This thriller is definitely about the journey, with the destination wrapped up in a neat tidy bow. I love reading books about born and raised NYC families- I’ve spent enough time in the city to know I could never make it there, but there’s something so glamorous about Cleo having grown up in Brooklyn and attending NYU and the mad dashes around the city to find her mom that add to the atmosphere and tension in the book. There was also a huge focus on mother daughter relationships, which I found to be relatable and made me want to give my mom a hug. I did think that the various storylines and details were somewhat confusing, particularly at the beginning on the book, and this is not a book that you can put down for a few days and come back to. There’s too much going on for that. But overall, a solid, suspenseful thriller!

Mother/daughter relationships are tough. Take Kat and her daughter Cleo. They haven’t spoken in months after Kat overstepped one too many times. But when Cleo shows up late to a peace offering dinner, she finds blood on the floor and her mother missing.

What follows is a very satisfying thriller as Cleo races to not only find her mother but also discover who her mother actually is and perhaps how similar they might be after all. There’s a good mix of clues and red herrings without it getting overly complicated or annoying. The dynamic between Kat and Cleo is complex with realistic shades of gray that any woman, mother or daughter can recognize a shade of truth in.

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the opportunity to read and review Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight. All opinions are my own.

In this novel we are following two main characters, Katrina and Cleo, mother and daughter. They have a strained relationship. Cleo believes her mother to be controlling and judgmental. Katrina grew up with no real mother figure and wants to make all the right choices for her daughter. Katrina also has a very demanding job and an unfulfilling marriage. Cleo doesn't always make good life choices. Katrina and Cleo have been on the outs for the last several months, so Katrina is thrilled Cleo as agreed to come home for dinner to discuss some important matters. There are secrets on both sides. When Cleo arrives for dinner, she finds a bloody shoe and her mother nowhere to be found.

There are lots of side characters who participate in a twisty plotline with lots of secrets to unravel. This is created through a dual timeline as you discover these secrets and backstory that happens before Katrina disappears and what is currently happening after Cleo discovers the disappearance. The timelines are very easy to follow and enjoyable. The bits and pieces you will discover while reading keeps the reader engaged till the very end. I enjoyed this one and once I reach the 50 percent mark could not put it down because I had to know the truth. Like Mother, Like Daughter will be released on July 30th. Happy Reading!!

I received a complementary ARC of this book from NetGalley on behalf of the author and the publisher.
I enjoyed this fast paced thriller. Cleo is searching for her mom Kat who disappeared from her home and the clues that are left behind are suspicious. In this story McCreight delves into the mother daughter relationship as the story flashes back and forth in time. What happened to Kat? There are quite a few suspects that keep you guessing. I flew through this one and thought the book really came together with a satisfying ending.

It was a bit of a slow start but this is a good thriller. I didn't figure out who the bad guy was until the book was almost over. Ms. McCreight definitely relies on peoples' assumptions and I for one fell for it.

Dark, gritty and intricately plotted, this one will keep you guessing. I thoroughly enjoyed all the twists and turns. The pace was quick, and the dual timelines/POVs dovetailed nicely to reveal all the secrets and lies along the way.

I'm realizing how many incredible books have been published or are about to come out in July! Don’t miss Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight, another riveting book by a favorite author.

When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened.

But what? The polar opposite of Cleo, whose “out of control” emotions and “unsafe” behavior have created a seemingly unbridgeable rift between mother and daughter, Kat is the essence of Park Slope perfection: a happily married, successful corporate lawyer. Or so Cleo thinks.

Kat has been lying. She’s not just a lawyer; she’s her firm’s fixer. She’s damn good at it, too. Growing up in a dangerous group home taught her how to think fast, stay calm under pressure, and recognize a real threat when she sees one. And in the days leading up her disappearance, Kat has become aware of multiple threats: demands for money from her unfaithful soon-to-be ex-husband; evidence that Cleo has slipped back into a relationship that’s far riskier than she understands; and menacing anonymous messages from her past — all of which she’s kept hidden from Cleo . . .

Quick synopsis: Cleo, a college student, comes home to have dinner with her mom Kat to try to fix their relationship, but her mom is missing and there's blood on the floor. Kat is connected to a LOT of shady people, and has her own questionable past, so who could be responsible? *I think I would have liked this more if at least one character had been just slightly likeable. it seemed like the mother-daughter similarities the title hints at was that they both make SUCH BAD decisions, but there is no apparent character growth. There is growth in their relationship, but neither seems to ever realize how messed up their actions were. That made it really hard to care about the outcome or root for any of the "good" characters (and there are plenty of "bad" characters who are that much worse.) *
I'm also not a fan of mysteries where characters refuse to work with the police, or keep secrets from the police who are investigating. And this even doubles down on that, with the cop basically begging them to share with her if they find anything. 
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I did like the alternating POVs and flashbacks, it kept the story moving. There was one twist that I thought was pretty obvious, but the 'why' behind it was fun to discover. And this did a good job of setting up multiple red herrings (like I said, every character is awful - you could truly believe literally anyone was responsible for Kat going missing). *
Overall, it's got some good moments, but i had a hard time getting into this.

Kimberly McCreight wrote one of my favorite thrillers ever (A GOOD MARRIAGE,) and for that reason, I will probably pick up whatever she writes!

This book ended up being a bit of a mixed bag for me. I think this author writes legal thrillers so well and in a way that makes them more accessible to the average reader. I think she accomplished that with flying colors in this novel. I also love a mother-daughter story and I found the second half of the story very propulsive!

I always say I have only two qualifications to love a thriller, entertain me and surprise me. And yes, I know I’m very picky about this genre! I do think this book entertained me. It did get a little bit convoluted just in the many points of view and texts and legal documents and emails, etc. But unfortunately, it just didn’t surprise me. I saw the “big twist“ (Will/Reed) coming from a mile away and I know this isn’t the case for every reader, but I want to be shocked!

This is still a book that I will highly recommend because I think it’s really well done and less experienced thriller readers will be surprised by the ending!