5 books like “The Perfect Couple” to read after watching the Nicole Kidman series

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The perfect coupleElin Hilderbrand’s 2018 thriller is having quite a moment right now. If you haven’t read the book (or watched the hit show starring Nicole Kidman), here’s the gist: It’s wedding season on Nantucket, and Otis and Winbury’s lavish wedding is shaping up to be a hit. But then tragedy strikes when a body is discovered in Nantucket Harbor just hours before the ceremony. Suddenly, everyone at the wedding becomes a suspect – including the groom’s famous mother, a crime writer. It’s exciting, twisty and keeps you guessing until the last page. If you’ve already skimmed through the novel and are looking for books with similar themes – failed weddings, secrets and, surprisingly, murder, I’ve put together a list of five books like The perfect couple to add to the pile on your nightstand.

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Billed as White Lotus meets Agatha Christie, Illegitimacy— Reese’s Book Club’s August 2024 selection — begins with woman Ellery heading to a luxury resort in Big Sur, California to celebrate her 20th wedding anniversary. First catch? She is there alone after her recent divorce. Not only is loneliness on her mind, but during her trip, a wedding is scheduled to take place at the resort. I say it will happen because it never does; Ellery finds the groom’s body floating in the pool. Soon, another mysterious death occurs, and to make matters worse, the investigation is foiled by a violent storm that leaves the guests stranded in the resort. Like any good thriller, there are plot twists, seemingly promising leads that lead nowhere, and many secrets threatening to be uncovered.

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Suspense lovers will love every word Lucy Foley (Paris Apartment) atmospheric thriller about a wedding gone wrong. On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate the marriage of a handsome and charming television star and an intelligent and ambitious magazine publisher. Everything is beautiful until the champagne bursts and resentment and jealousy bubble to the surface. Then someone turns up dead and, perhaps unsurprisingly, everyone present is keeping a secret. As one Amazon reviewer put it: “Fast-paced action, twists and well-done human characters. You won’t be disappointed. A touch of local Irish makes this an escapist destination.”

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When Amaya is invited to Kaavi’s lavish wedding in Sri Lanka, she is surprised to hear from her former best friend after so many years of radio silence. However, when Amaya finds out that the groom is her ex-boyfriend, she is convinced that she must stop the wedding at all costs. As the weeklong festivities begin and rumors spread about Amaya’s past, she can’t shake the feeling that she, too, has a target on her back. When Kaavi disappears and is presumed dead, all evidence points to Amaya. But as it turns out, every wedding guest has their own dark secrets and plans, and Amaya may not be the only one planning to stop the wedding.

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While there’s no wedding at the center of this best-seller (which was turned into a show on Peacock), there is a wealthy, seemingly perfect family and plenty of secrets. Stan and Joy Delaney are fixtures in their community. After 50 years of marriage, they sold the tennis academy to begin the golden years of their lives. So why are they so unhappy? Things come to a head when a stranger, Savannah, knocks on their door, bleeding from an argument with her boyfriend, and the Delaneys are eager to help. But when Joy disappears and Savannah is gone, the police interrogate Stan, who, although he claims his innocence, clearly has a lot to hide. As the four Delaney children take sides, they begin to re-examine their family history in a new light.

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Robin is a queer woman in her 30s living in Brooklyn and working on her Ph.D. dissertation on society’s obsession with marriage. So she’s surprised when Ellie, her estranged childhood best friend, asks her to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. And this isn’t your average wedding, just like it’s not your average society. Laskey’s novel is set in a modern, slightly dystopian version of America, a world where the government encourages marriage and where social media has decided that single women at age 27 are “leftovers” and at age 35 “rotten.” As Robin and Ellie fall deeper down the rabbit hole of planning and making sure the wedding goes off without a hitch, things get darker, as the book’s opening lines foreshadow: “If you want to know the story of how me and my best friend tried to kill each other , I should probably start with the night she asked me to be her maid of honor.

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