Tell Your Friends

The eldest daughter of a famous British influencer family considers revealing explosive secrets about her mother in the sharp sophomore thriller from Wilson (The Goldens). Crystal Shaw is excited to move to London for journalism school and escape her mother’s laser focus on producing the family’s popular At Home with the Shaws vlog. In London, Crystal quickly bonds with fellow journalism student Alyssa and invites her back to the picture-perfect Shaw home for Christmas. There, Crystal uncovers unsettling new details about the years-ago death of her older sister and seeks Alyssa’s help in sharing the information, which would destroy her mother’s reputation and bring At Home with the Shaws to an end. As Crystal weighs whether to besmirch her family name, however, she questions the motives of Alyssa, who seems a bit too excited to ingratiate herself with the Shaw family, and who turns out to have secrets of her own, including a spotty past at boarding school. Wilson delivers solid suspense while exploring the rich if familiar theme of social media’s ability to warp reality. Fans of the author’s debut will enjoy themselves. Agent: Chloe Seager, Madeleine Milburn Literary. (June)