Kimberly McCreight does it again! Another thriller that hooks you from the beginning. Clea is a student at NYU who has a fraught relationship with her mother. She discovers something suspicious when she visits her mother's home in Park Slope one evening and finds a bloody shoe, burning dinner, and no sign of her mother, Katrina. Cleo sets out to find out what happened to Katrina and the twists and turns begin. People she trusted, including her father, come under suspicion. Along the way, Cleo learns more about her mother and begins to understand her better. A page-turner!

I thoroughly enjoyed this uncorrected version of this book. All the side stories were woven brilliantly around Cleo and Her mother’s relationship. The writing was clear and the chapter designations were easy to keep pace with who and where as the story unfolded. I really liked Cleo and Katerina her mother, their relationship was created beautifully. I had read only one of Kimberly McCreught’s former novels many years ago. Now I’m going back to read the others. It was a complex read, as there were several story lines going on simultaneously, yet their distinct chapters made it very easy to follow. Great Read!

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an advance copy of this book. My reviews never contain spoilers and are freely given.
Kat, a fixer for a legal firm goes missing from her home. Her estranged daughter Cleo is trying desperately to find her. There are a lot of moving parts in the story to keep track of, but it is easy to follow. The story is told from the viewpoints of mother and daughter. The daughter is present time, and the mother’s is the days leading up to her disappearance.
The book addresses the relationship between mother and daughter, illustrating how fraught they can be. But ultimately it is about survival; the ability to overcome adversity and come out a better person on the other side of negative events.
Overall, I truly enjoyed reading this book and believe others will as well.

I devoured this book in one sitting! Kat and Cleo, their mother and daughter's relationship was challenging, like most but possibly worse. Kat is a patent lawyer or so Cleo thinks but when Kat goes missing under suspicious circumstances Cleo discovers there is more to her mom than meets the eye. This thrill ride of a mystery will have you glued to the page with your fingers crossed that Cleo will find her mom before it's too late.

I couldn't put this down! I finished in less than 2 days. One night when I couldn't sleep, I read a few chapters on my kindle and then I REALLY couldn't sleep. The author, like in her other novels, does a good job at creating mystery and suspense in multiple formats (interviews, a before timeline, and an after timeline). 85% into the book and I still could not tell where it was going to go and how everything was going to tie together. Kimberly McCreight has solidified her position as an auto-read author for me.

3.75 stars

Cleo and her mom Kat have a complicated relationship. One night Cleo comes home to find her mom gone, dinner still in the oven and a bloody shoe. Not wanting to sit around and do nothing Cleo starts looking into her moms life and finds out Kat isn’t who she thought she was.

Pros: it was a quick easy read and I liked the dual perspectives. As soon as you thought you knew who the kidnapper was a new suspect popped up.

Cons: it took about 1/3 of the book for me to get into it. Additionally, the epilogue was lacking, we get to know some of these characters and then their store just ends, nothing is wrapped up or resolved.

Overall I would definitely recommend.

I really enjoyed this book. It was a quick read. I would have liked a little more of an epilogue at the end...is she going to go after the money her ex stole? Otherwise, great text, really engaging. It had some twists that I didn't expect!

What would you do if you walked into your mom's home, and all that remained of her was a pool of blood and her bloody shoe? Cleo has to answer these questions in Kimberly McCreight's latest Like Mother, Like Daughter.

I was sent an e-copy of this book, and it was quite an interesting thriller! I loved how the book alternated among Cleo, Kat (her mother), and then anonymous parts. It also alternated between the past and present. Once I started this book, it was hard for me to put it down, a sure sign that a book is a good one to me.

I will say that the book wrapped up too quickly, and I felt like I needed to read more about one character's ending.

But overall...it was a page-turner and is worth the read!

Cleo and her mother Katrina do not get along. Cleo thinks her mother is too controlling and she's sick of her interfering with her lifestyle choices. Katrina is afraid that Chloe's dangerous choices are going to cost her far more than she is willing to pay one day.

After a period of estrangement, Chloe agrees to meet Katrina at home to try to have a discussion and bridge their current gap. When Chloe arrives, the door to the house is open, food is on the stove and in the oven burning, glass is shattered, and her mother's lone shoe has blood on it. Katrina is nowhere to be found.

The police are called and Katrina is reported as a missing person.

Frightened and in a panic, Chloe is desperate to find her mother. As she tries to use her mother's laptop and talk to her father, her mother's friends, work colleagues, and clients, Chloe quickly realizes that her mother has been keeping secrets of her own. Chloe knows that she's running out of time if she wants to find her mother alive and she'll do whatever it takes to find her-even if she puts her own well-being in danger.

I'm a fan of Kimberly McCreight and have enjoyed her past novels such as A Good Marriage and Friends Like These. This taut, suspenseful thriller is no exception. McCreight knows how to construct an engaging story with characters you are invested in and plot threads that continue to build and merge to peak your interest. The twists and turns of this story will keep the reader guessing until its satisfying conclusion.

Look no further for a genuinely original clever and suspenseful thriller!

Another hit from Kimberley Mccreight! When a mother goes missing before a meeting with her estranged daughter both of their lives and secrets begin to unravel. A great thriller

This was a fast paced novel with interesting characters. It kept my attention all the way to the end.

Katrina’s daughter Cleo comes home one night to find her mother missing and broke glass and a bloody shoe behind. Admits Katrina’s pending divorce, Cleo dating a drug dealer, there is a lot going on. I had a hard time getting into this one.
Sadly, it just wasn’t for me.

I liked this book! It was suspenseful and relatively fast paced, but I always felt I understood what was going on. The dual perspective chapters help break up the plot a little too and gave the opposite points of view, which I thought helped provide more context. I also appreciated the mother-daughter aspect of this book. Normally in a thriller this wouldn't be such a big focus, but I liked how the author slowly exposed the reasons for their tough relationship while also having each begin to recognize how much they care about each other. I saw the second plot twist coming, but I definitely didn't predict the first!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this ARC! Thriller lovers, pick this one up on 7/9/24!

Flew through this ARC of Like mother, like daughter by @kimberlymccreight 😍

Thank you to @netgalley and @aaknopf for the ARC!! This shocking, thrilling & absolutely brilliant novel will be released on July 9th 📚

4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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I requested to read and review this book for free from Alfred A. Knopf a division of Penguin Random House Publishing Company. This book was full of many twists and turns and will keep you guessing until the very end! I highly recommend this book. Who can you trust? Who protects Who? Parents are supposed to protect their child. The things in out past shape our future and how we handle situations more then we can every imagine. Kat has a had not the best childhood and plans to make sure her daughter never makes the same mistakes she did. Cleo wants to nothing to do with her mom who she thinks is to controlling. Adian is the dad who is your beet friend and you think as a parent has the best intentions for hia daughter and for his wife. But when someone you love disappears what will you do to find this person, what will you do to find them alive and to keep them safe?

Cleo has a complicated relationship with her mom. When she receives a plea from her mom, Kat, to come home because she needs to talk to her, she reluctantly goes. When she gets there her mom isn’t answering the door. She knocks harder and the door opens. Once inside, she notices there’s food burning and there’s no sign of her mother. But then she finds shattered glass, and blood, lots of it. Cleo jumps into action to find her mom, and while doing so, unravels secrets about her mom’s life that she didn’t know about. Will she be able to find her mom before it’s too late?

This was a decent mystery/thriller book. It caught my attention in the beginning, but by the middle, I found myself a little bored and just wanting to get to the end to find out what was going on. It picked up again towards the end, but I found it to feel a little haphazard and convoluted with so many characters and possibilities in play. Overall, I’m rating the book 3.5 rounded up to 4 stars.

Thank you to Knopf and NetGalley for the ARC. The pub date is slated for July 9th, 2024.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It had me on the edge of my seat the whole time.

The only reason why I am giving this book a 4 out of 5 is because I did guess the big twist early.

It is still phenomenal!

Do you ever finish a book and immediately want to start it over with clear, open eyes that know everyone and everything? This book makes me want to do that, and I mean that in the best possible way. This story was incredibly written, hooking me from the first few chapters.
It’s told from two point of views and two timelines. The mom, Katrina, has gone missing and tells the before POV, while her daughter, who she has a broken relationship with, is the first to discover her mom is missing, and tells the after POV. There are so many characters, but I think they’re all pretty necessary and they all tie together nicely. It truly kept me wondering what narrative the suspect line was going… was it the estranged husband who needed 2.5 million of his wife’s inheritance, the new boyfriend who died under suspicious circumstances, the haunting anonymous text messages threatening to reveal her past, or the daughter’s angry drug dealing ex-boyfriend.
5/5 ⭐️ Would absolutely recommend!
Many thanks to Kimberly McCreight and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor Knopf for my eARC, publishing July 2024!

This is the first book by this author I’ve read and is a wonderful read! There is a real twist I did not see coming at the end! The daughter Cleo and her mother are well fleshed out characters though I was still unsure what Kat’s job was? For me this was a story of a mother and daughter finding their way back to each other during those crazy years when girls are hateful to their mothers. Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC!

I really loved Kimberly McCreight's previous book, A Good Marriage, so I was excited to check this one out since it also takes place in New York. I really enjoyed it, it kept me on my toes and I couldn't put it down!

Cleo and her mother Katrina have a strained relationship and haven't talked in awhile. When Cleo arrives at her childhood home and finds her mother gone, broken glass and blood on her mother's shoe, she quickly takes the search for her mother in to her own hands.

This book is very fast paced, as the narrative switches between Kat in the days leading up to her disappearance, as well as Cleo in the hours and days after the disappearance. Interspersed are news articles, transcripts, texts, and more multi-media, which I always love.

I guessed one of the twists ahead of the reveal but it didn't take away from it for me - and I didn't guess all of them. I enjoyed the tension and the unsettling nature of the book, and thought the ending was good.

I would recommend this for anyone looking for a fast-paced New York based thriller! I'll be checking out everything Kimberly McCreight puts out in the future.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book!