The Chaperones
From the internationally bestselling author of The Water Lies comes a propulsive psychological thriller about privileged parents and their kids on an idyllic camping trip that turns deadly.
The third-grade parents at the elite Chester School don’t do anything small—not their drama and certainly not their end-of-year trips. As they set out to the remote island of Santa Cruz off the coast of Southern California, where the only amenity is running water and help is a ninety-minute boat ride away, they may have finally gotten in over their heads.
Stranded by a sudden storm, the chaperones wake to find two children missing from their tents.
The search for the boys leads to a body—and a surfacing of secrets that were meant to stay buried.
Because there’s someone else on the island. Someone with secrets of their own. Someone who shouldn’t be there. And has every reason to stay.
The Chaperones is a locked room thriller that will keep readers guessing about who’s dead and who’s capable of murder, and whose secrets started it all.
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Amy Meyerson
Amy Meyerson writes novels that feel like conversations overheard in a favorite place, intimate, curious and full of unspoken history. Her stories often begin with a simple object or a chance discovery, a stack of old letters, a family heirloom, a quiet bookstore, and from there they widen into explorations of how the past shapes the present. Readers met her voice for the first time in The Bookshop of Yesterdays, a warm literary mystery set among dusty shelves and complicated relatives, and the book quickly found audiences around the world. Translated into multiple languages and embraced by book clubs, it announced the arrival of a writer drawn to puzzles of memory as much as the emotional lives behind them.
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