Jaime Lynn Hendricks knows how to construct a craveable thriller. THEIR DOUBLE LIVES provides a puzzle of a mystery involving multiple narratives, character perspectives and timelines.

Kim Valva is recovering from a broken relationship (her boyfriend cheated on her), and now the only thing in the world that matters to her --- her dog, Murphy --- requires life-saving surgery for which she cannot pay. This current mindset makes her the perfect candidate to be contacted by The Stranger, a mysterious figure who offers her $20,000 to kill a privileged and controversial member of the New Jersey country club where she works as a server.

"THEIR DOUBLE LIVES provides much to ponder for the reader and will confound those trying to figure out the connections between the characters, as well as the identity of The Stranger."

What makes the request so much more personal for Kim is that she knows the targeted individual from her days growing up in Brooklyn, when he was a small-time gangster named Tony Fiore. He now goes by Anthony Fuller, and has a fiancée and a successful (though mostly illegal) business. He also happens to be Kim’s ex-boyfriend from high school, which pushes her moral barometer to the limit when deciding just how badly she needs the money and at what cost it will come.

Kim makes her choice, and the deed will be done this very evening during dinner service when Anthony will be poisoned to death. But a major twist comes when, instead of Anthony dying, his fiancée, PJ Walsh, writhes in agony and quickly goes into a death rattle that marks the end of her life. The Stranger is not happy that Anthony did not die and indicates as much when he phones Kim. When she asks him if he had intended for both Anthony and PJ to die, he disconnects their call.

THEIR DOUBLE LIVES provides much to ponder for the reader and will confound those trying to figure out the connections between the characters, as well as the identity of The Stranger. This very well could be a one-sit read perfect for the beach.