Kalliope, and Real Fiction. She holds a master’s degree from The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where she earned a fellowship. In her other professional life, as a nonprofit executive, she has raised over a half-billion dollars in philanthropic support to improve individuals’ quality of life and access to opportunities. A longtime New Yorker, Merle now lives in Scarborough, Maine with her family.
Her new novel is A Dangerous Friendship.
At CrimeReads Merle tagged four irrestible novels that "expose the shadow side of intimacy, the thin line between attraction and peril that reflects our darkest longings." One title on the list:
We Were Never Here — Andrea BartzRead about the other entries on Merle's list at CrimeReads.
Best friends Emily and Kristen can finish each other’s sentences, send messages in code, and take trips to exotic lands where the unthinkable happens – twice! A night out in Cambodia and a similar night years later in Chile end in bloodshed, both allegedly in self-defense from male predators. They help each other cover up the murders, until stories of inexplicable violence from Kristen’s past starts to unravel their friendship. Unexplained coincidences, secrets, and lies multiply as Kristen morphs into a stalker and Emily into an untrustworthy narrator. This is a thriller about loyalty twisted into coercion and the terrifying realization that the person who knows you best could also destroy you.
We Were Never Here is among Jilly Gagnon's five top thrillers featuring toxic friendships and Megan Collins's seven thrillers in which friendships are tested.
--Marshal Zeringue
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