The Accomplice

A Novel

By: Lisa Lutz

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Everyone has the same questions about best friends Owen and Luna: What binds them together so tightly? Why weren’t they ever a couple? And why do people around them keep turning up dead? In this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger, every answer raises a new, more chilling question.

“Masterfully plotted, The Accomplice is both a keep-you-guessing mystery and a keenly and tenderly observed character study.”—Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home

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Owen Mann is charming, privileged, and chronically dissatisfied. Luna Grey is secretive, cautious, and pragmatic. Despite their differences, they form a bond the moment they meet in college. Their names soon become indivisible—Owen and Luna, Luna and Owen—and stay that way even after an unexplained death rocks their social circle.

They’re still best friends years later, when Luna finds Owen’s wife brutally murdered. The police investigation sheds light on some long-hidden secrets, but it can’t penetrate the wall of mystery that surrounds Owen. To get to the heart of what happened and why, Luna has to dig up the one secret she’s spent her whole life burying.

The Accomplice brilliantly examines the bonds of shared history, what it costs to break them, and what happens when you start wondering how well you know the one person who truly knows you.

©2021 Lisa Lutz (P)2021 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“Lisa Lutz just gets better and better, and . . . The Accomplice may just be her best so far.”—CrimeReads

“There’s no one in crime fiction more inventive than Lisa Lutz, and The Accomplice is her greatest sleight of hand yet. Wry and menacing, with the gravity-defying grace of a skipped stone, The Accomplice is at once a suspenseful thrill ride, a deep and disquieting meditation on friendship, and a Wes Anderson comedy rolled into one. After this, I’d read her grocery list.”—Amy Gentry, bestselling author of Good as Gone and Bad Habits

“Masterfully plotted, The Accomplice is both a keep-you-guessing mystery—like, seriously, I didn’t see any of it coming—and a keenly and tenderly observed character study and portrait of a beautiful friendship complicated by a strange body count that keeps growing around them. I was rooting for Owen and Luna, but murder has a way of testing the bounds of even the tightest of best friends.”—Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home

Great

I’ve been binging on Lisa lutz books lately. I don’t give 5 stars easily. She is a wonderful story teller and the characters are complex and interesting. And the narrator is so important- Lisa flannigan is perfect for this story. Well done!

Starts slow but good story

Unique mystery. Lots on interpersonal relationships, some believe able some not but not way out there.

Started out promising, but then fell flat.

I read other reviewers who said the ending was lame. They were spot on. The story starts out interesting, but midway through, the story falls apart and you have to force yourself to continue listening rather than switching to another book.

Favorite Book of the Year

I am pleasantly surprised at how terrific this book was. It is definitely a new favorite. I enjoyed the original storyline and the character building. Absolutely recommend.

Great but the narrator spoke too slow

Fun story but the narrator spoke so slow that at 1.5x speed I could still understand perfectly and STILL felt too long pauses occasionally.

Twisty turny ride!

Love this...finished it in 2 days! Great twist at the end...had my jaw on the floor. 2 big thumbs up 👍

Keeps you wondering…

Well written and narration perfection. A complex story that leaves you glued! I will be checking out more by this author.

Wow! Great read!

This book was excellent. I’ve read a lot of books in this genre and honestly this is the best in the last two years. Interesting, entertaining, mysterious, filled with twists and turns and I did not guess the ending. Highly recommend you read this book!

Soooooo much going on, but so good!

This book is fantastic! There's so many storylines, all going on at the same time, and yet it all comes together beautifully in the end!
The storyline is refreshing and it's new. I loved the friendships and the level of loyalty.
The narrator is the best!

Oh wow

This was a twisty turny thriller for sure! I was sure I knew who was guilty about 5 times and in the end, it was a satisfyingly a surprising conclusion.