This was one of those books where there are multiple stories that you are trying to figure out how they all connect. At the end, it is wrapped up nicely, but there definitely points in this book where I just had to trust the author because I was confused. It's definitely hard to put down for that reason as I kept thinking if I read just one more chapter, I'll understand what is happening and where we are going.

It's definitely a great thriller to start 2024 with!

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book. I gave it a 4, but it’s really just shy of that. The writing is good, the story moves along. Kat is branded as the bad parent by her soon to be ex Aidan and their daughter, Cleo, buys into it. Kat will stop at nothing to protect their daughter, but she makes some decisions that aren’t well thought out. Cleo makes a lot of decisions based on emotions. And Aidan is so smarmy you can feel the oil roll off of him. They all have secrets. Kat was raised in an orphanage after her parents abandoned her. Cleo is a student at NYU who hooks up with a drug dealer to make a little money. Aidan is a “filmmaker” who has never completed a project. Kat is a corporate lawyer handling somewhat unusual transactions.

This is a multi layered criminal thriller. We aren’t looking at just one criminal event. Every chapter brings a new twist to the suspect list. At one point the only person I could count out was me!

I loved this book! I loved the different perspectives and fast pace. Each time I finished a chapter, I wanted to start the second, to uncover what happened to Katerina.

Thank you to Knopf, Kimberly McCreight and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my review. This book is slated to be released on July 9, 2024.

What a fun thriller!!!! Kat, a smothering mother, demands that her daughter, a college student, come home for a talk. But when Cleo gets home her mother is not there. There has been a sign of a struggle and instantly Cleo goes on the alert. She knows her mother. She knows something bad has happened. Afterall like mother, like daughter. Cleo will stop at nothing to find out what happened and to try and find her mother. Very good twisty thriller

The book starts with the mother Katrina going missing. Her daughter Cleo comes home anad her Mom is gone and only a broken glass and bloody shoe is left. Cleo's dad who is in the process of divorce with Katrina runs home but her dad has a new family so isnt much help. Cleo's most recent interest dies in a car crash and what else could go wrong? There is a bunch of the book that discusses a pharm company whose drug is causing birth defects. There were a bunch of twists and turns in the book that I didnt see coming and it kept me guessing.

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a twisty murder mystery about a missing hit power attorney.

I did not like this book. There were no heros. Although all of their secrets were revealed, none of the characters were sympathetic and there was no redemption for any of them.

Like mother, like daughter by author Kimberley is a fast paced thriller that will not let you down! It is worth the read and does not disappoint! I recommend like mother, like daughter! 4.5/5

Cleo, a student at NYU, heads to her mother Kat's house in Brooklyn for dinner, only to find chaos: dinner burning, blood staining the floor, and a bloody shoe hidden under the couch. Kat is nowhere to be found.

Both Cleo and Kat harbor numerous secrets. Kat's troubled marriage has finally crumbled, she endured a challenging upbringing in a group home, she now works as her law firm's troubleshooter, and she's grappling with an unexplained death. Meanwhile, her firm is embroiled in a high-stakes class action lawsuit over a drug's adverse effects during pregnancy, raising concerns about conflicts of interest.

Midway through the book, a heavy sigh escapes me as the narrative once again paints lawyers in a negative light—soulless and reprehensible. Yet, I can't help but interject: not all lawyers fit this mold! I swear it! While I adored "Reconstructing Amelia" and eagerly anticipated another standout from this author, "OK" is the best I can muster for this one. The characters, including the protagonists, are flawed and often unlikable. It's challenging to overlook Kat's role as a fixer for a major law firm or Cleo's history as a drug dealer. Despite this, the book isn't without merit, but it falls short of greatness in my view.

As is evident by the title, this book is mostly about the complexities in the relationship between a mother, Kat, and her daughter, Cleo. Kat is a corporate lawyer who’s considered more of a ‘fixer’ for her clients. She makes their problems go away, mainly by strong-arming or throwing money at them. But now she’s missing and because no one except her boss knows her true work, it will make finding her much more difficult.

Cleo is a 20-year-old college student who acts more like a spoiled teenager and favors her father, even though he’s clearly irresponsible and more of the ‘fun dad’ than the strict parent that Kat is. Which of course is why Cleo prefers him. She’s reluctantly meeting her mother at their house for dinner when she finds it empty – there are signs of a struggle, and her mother is nowhere to be found.

Her parents are in the middle of a separation but have decided to wait until the school year is over to tell Cleo. But once Cleo starts digging around in her mother’s life to find clues to her disappearance, Cleo uncovers the separation and so much more. Kat’s not the only one with secrets. But will Cleo puzzle it out before she becomes the next one to vanish?

The most interesting parts of the story to me were the scenes in Kat’s journal from the children’s home she grew up in. But they don’t figure too much into the story. I feel like a book about that experience would have been much darker and more suspenseful. Corporate law and obnoxious clients aren’t nearly as interesting to me. Neither is a selfish, immature daughter who makes the same bad decisions over and over. Yes, she grows throughout the story, but it’s a bit of a stretch that her character would have matured that much, that quickly. And the twist towards the end, well, it’s foreshadowed so much that you’re basically just waiting to see that you were right.

But the book is a page-turner - just because many of the characters are unlikeable doesn’t mean the writing’s not good! And I loved the resolution of what happened to Kat because I had an inkling of it, but not all, and it’s unique but realistic. It’s definitely worth giving this one a shot.

Cleo, an NYU student, goes to her mother Kat’s house in Brooklyn for dinner. When she arrives the dinner is burning, there is blood on the floor and there’s a bloody shoe under the couch. Kat is gone.

Both Cleo and Kat have many secrets. For Kat, her troubled marriage has finally imploded, she grew up in a group home, she’s now her law firm’s fixer and she’s dealing with an unexplained death. Her firm is handling a major class action suit involving deaths and damages from a drug taken during pregnancy and a potential conflict of interest.

Less than halfway through I gave a heavy sigh as, once again, it’s terrible, awful, soulless lawyers. Really, honestly, not all lawyers are so bad. I swear to you!

I loved RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA and have been hoping for another book as good from this author. This isn’t that. Lots of terrible people, including, if we’re being honest, the two protagonists. Are we meant to forget that one’s a fixer for a major law firm and one has been a drug dealer? I think we are. Not a bad book, by any means, but just OK, by my estimation.

After coming home and discovering her mother’s bloody shoe, Cleo realizes that her mother (Katrina) has gone missing.
The book jumps back and forth from present day search for Kat to several days before she goes missing.
In addition to the mysterious disappearance, the book focuses on the mother- daughter dynamic between Cleo and her perfectionist, strict mother. Cleo discovers that her mother is not who she thought she was and that she’s been involved with some suspect people.
The book was a bit predictable but engaging. I was more interested in the mother- daughter relationship dynamic than the thriller aspect. It wasn’t a bad read and I’m sure lots of thriller fans will love it.

This book was very good. I really enjoyed the way the book was constructed - not just the two different points of views from the two main characters, but the addition of transcripts, court documents, etc that made the story feel dynamic and engaging. The story itself was great and the twists were well done. I did feel there were moments that dragged a little towards the middle but overall the story felt like it moved at a fairly quick pace, which matched the urgency of the story itself. I also enjoyed the way that all of the information that was provided tied together by then end. It didn't feel like there were any loose ends, which made for a satisfying read. Grateful to Netgalley for the read, I'll definitely be buying a copy!

This was one of those books where it seems there's multiple stories all going on at once and you're trying to figure out how all the pieces get put together. Thankfully, they did eventually all piece together but it was slow-going. The twist at the end was a good shocker for me and I enjoyed the chapters written from both Cleo and Katrina's perspectives. I didn't give it more stars because the story just wasn't my cup of tea.

Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!

This book hooked me from the first few pages. Stayed up late reading it. I loved the mother daughter backstory along with the shifting timelines. Really great thriller to kick off my year

At times I found this book hard to follow. It felt like it jumped around a lot. In the end though I enjoyed it and wanted to see how it ended. Glad I stuck it out bc I didn’t see that ending coming.

My first time reading a book by this author but not my last. Suspenseful, full of twists. Who is telling the truth? Who to trust? Secrets finally revealed. Sub plots tying together to a startling conclusion. A book you won't want to put done. Recommend. Received an ARC thru NetGalley and this is my voluntary honest review.

Thank you Netgalley for an early copy of this story in exchange for an honest review.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. It was a solid read (probably closer to 3.5 stars). I was not expecting the twists that came throughout the story and felt like the pacing was great because I was always ready to keep reading. I also LOVE when books have chapters with different perspectives (email or text exchanges, news articles, therapist notes, etc). I think it makes the story more interesting and this one had a lot! I definitely enjoyed this one.

Katrina is an overworked NYC attorney and a quite rigid parent, who has little time for her husband Aidan and much less time for college-aged Cleo. Things between mother and daughter are quite contentious but when Kat goes missing, Cleo will do just about anything to find out what happened. As she digs deeper into her mom's past, the stakes become much more dangerous. This accelerated thriller is perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell.

This was a solid read. The story did go in multiple directions at times but McCreight does a good job on keeping the reader on track and guessing at the same time. It does get congested at times with how many different characters are introduced. It would be a 4 if not for all the characters the reader has to keep up with. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of this book.

Kimberly McCreight is a delight to read, and she has a brand new thriller coming July of 2024! Those of us that are daughters - and mothers - recognize the complexities of the relationship. Our daughters are the most beautiful extensions of ourselves, but they are also their own selves making their own way. That's exactly what Cleo is trying to do as a young college woman trying to distance herself from Katrina, her mother. Cleo finds her mother too traditional, too rigid, too judgmental - but she reluctantly agrees to go home for dinner one night only to find a pool of blood and her mother missing. Despite their troubled relationship, she immediately dives into what possibly could've happened to such a bland, commonplace woman...only, she finds out her mother wasn't that bland after all. How many enemies did one woman have, anyway? And can her own father be trusted? As Cleo begins to investigate, she finds that she has her mother's tenacity and shrewdness - as they say, LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER.

What a fun read! There are dual timelines and dual perspectives, and watching the story finally come together towards the end was truly a delight. A seasoned thriller reader might guess at some of the reveals, but the final twist was so genius in its simplicity that I laughed! I enjoyed how various parts of the story connected and found this the story-weaving to be masterful.

A must-read for those who are mothers and those who have mothers; you'll cheer on this dynamic duo and their troubled relationship. Will Cleo and Katrina have happy endings? Read on - this is a domestic thriller that you'll definitely want to add to your summer TBR!

A solid 4.5 stars from me! Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for my ARC. All opinions are my own.