Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Joshilyn Jackson, Sarah Warburton's chilling thriller, inspired by the Moors Murders, explores the twisted side of suburbia. Framed for embezzlement by her best friend Aimee, museum curator Kacy Tremain and her husband Michael move from New Jersey to a charming Texas suburb to escape their past. Kacy quickly makes new friends--preppy, inscrutable Elizabeth, chatty yet evasive Rahmia, and red-headed, unapologetic Lena. But good friends aren't always what they seem. As she navigates the unexpectedly cutthroat social scene of her new town, Kacy begins to receive taunting postcards--and worse, discovers cameras hidden in the wall of her home. Lena and her husband, Brady, reassure her that the cameras are just relics of the paranoid previous homeowner . Once the cameras are removed and Kacy's fears are quelled, Kacy and Michael make the happy discovery that they are going to be new parents. Months after the birth of their daughter, Michael accidentally makes a shocking discovery about Brady's past. And when Lena suddenly goes missing, Kacy and Michael begin to uncover the truth about their neighbors--and it's more terrible than anyone could have imagined. Interlaced with transcripts of a chilling "true crime" podcast that follow the tangled threads of the drama, You Can Never Tell is a taut and complex psychological thriller that never lets up until its breathless conclusion.
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Husband and wife move into a new house in a new state. The wife, Kacy has therapy-type issues that came from a former coworker lying about her, and in the end, she was the one that was fired. Kacy's new friend and her husband turn out to be quite the opposite of what they were looking for in next-door neighbors and new friends. In the meantime, there are mysterious murders happening all around their new location.
Kacy obsesses over this other person who betrayed her the whole book. None of the other characters get as much attention and the story fell flat for me. I followed along with the slow pace of Kacy trying to get out of her shell to make new friends, then the quick appearance of Kacy and one of the friends all of a sudden having the families they want to the boring events that should have been the excitement of it all. The ending added nothing. I did not care about any of the characters.
