House on Fripp Island (Kauffman) - Book Reviews

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Page-turner pacing…. Combustible…. The tensions between predators and prey—and how quickly one can become the other—haunt the novel, from its ominous beginning to its heartrending conclusion. But Kauffman also deftly crafts moments of great tenderness and light throughout, reminding us that memory endures and life perseveres, even after a harrowing and grievous loss.
Charleston Post and Courier


The tensions between the haves and the have-nots offer an insight into contemporary America…. In watchful prose by turns powerful and delicate, the action builds to an event as inevitable as it was unpredictable. Gripping.
Sunday Times
 

Suspenseful…. While the fault lines… allow for plenty of tart observations on marital disenchantment, Kaufmann spins a secondary, far more disconcerting story about the toxic power of suspicion and rumour. A smart summer read.
Daily Mail (UK)


Kauffman’s keen, atmospheric follow-up to The Gunners explores class, friendship, and dark family secrets…inevitably, events spiral to a shocking conclusion. Kauffman’s characters leap off the page…. Readers will devour this suspenseful summer drama.
Publishers Weekly


Our assumptions about whose tensions, desires, rages, and shy longings might erupt into murder are provoked and reversed right up until the final pages, when the mystery of Fripp Island is revealed...An entertaining and ultimately tender book.
Kirkus Reviews