A true-crime obsessed young artist is drawn into the lives of a deliriously wealthy family, in a thriller by the author of Other Peoples Clothes.
A true-crime obsessed young artist is drawn into the lives of an deliriously wealthy family in this fantastically entertaining thriller from Calla Henkel, author of Other Peoples Clothes
Recently dumped and stuck with a mortgage, artist Esther Ray wants to burn the world, but instead, she reluctantly accepts a scrapbooking job from the deliriously wealthy Naomi Duncan. The scrapbooks, a secret birthday gift for Naomis husband, Bryce, trace the Duncans 25-year marriage. The conditions: Esther must include every piece of paper shes been sent, must sign an NDA, and must only contact Naomi using the burner phone provided. Otherwise shell spoil the surprise.
As Esther binges true-crime podcasts and works through the near-200 boxes of Duncan detritus, she finds herself infatuated with the gilded familyuntil, mid-project, Naomi dies suspiciously. When Esther becomes convinced the husband killed her, she uses the scrapbooks trove of information to insert herself into the Duncans lives to prove it. But the more Esther investigates, the further she is dragged back to the scorched earth of her past and the famous artist who paid her to disappear.
Laced with pitch-black humor and conspiratorial unease, Scrap is a razor-sharp examination of wealth and power, art and truth, of the line between justice and revengeand who gets to cross it.
