MYSTERY

Good Rich People

by Eliza Jane Brazier
Berkley. Jan. 2022. 336p. ISBN 9780593198254. $27. THRILLER
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Life’s all about the game and all about winning in this dark tale of greed and control from Brazier (If I Disappear). Lyla Hershel, her husband Graham, and his mother Margo are super rich and super bored. For their own amusement, they take struggling tenants into the guest house of their L.A. mega-mansion and then proceed to ruin them. When homeless Demi Golding insinuates her way into their lives, assuming the identity of a prior, now deceased, tenant, she becomes their latest target. But she’s a fighter and determined to beat them. At a party involving guns and over-the-top antics, Lyla and Demi vie to up the emotional ante and a deadly competition ensues.
VERDICT Though not as well-crafted nor character-rich as her debut, Brazier’s second novel is a twisty tale populated by obsessive, manipulative, and odious people. Full of fast cars, designer clothes, and pulse-racing cinematic thrills, this is a sharp-edged look into the lives of zip code 90210 residents.
Reviewed by Susan Clifford Braun, Bainbridge Island, WA , Dec 03, 2021
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