All This Could Be Yours

Mary Higgins Clark Award winner Ryan (One Wrong Word) delivers a sturdy shocker centered on a suddenly successful novelist. Three years after Tessa Calloway livestreams quitting her dead-end job, the 40-something fulfills her publishing dreams. Her debut novel, All This Could Be Yours, achieves runaway success, and her agent throws together a cross-country publicity tour to capitalize on its popularity. At every stop, readers express their love for Tessa’s protagonist, the smart and ambitious Annabelle Brown. Then things start going wrong—Tessa loses her luggage, finds odd gifts at her hotel, and eventually is blackmailed by someone who threatens to release details about a decades-old mistake. Soon, the accolades grow suffocating, Tessa’s success is tempered with guilty memories of her long-ago transgression, and she starts to fear for the safety of her husband and children back home. The pace drags in the middle, but Ryan saves the day with satisfying reveals, a take-charge protagonist, and her skill for tying up loose ends. This will please the author’s fans. (Sept.)