The lives of four women, all mothers of young children, collide at their beloved local playground, where no one expects a child to stumble over a dead body. When one of the women then goes missing it becomes clear that the dead body is only the beginning of the trouble that’s come to this coveted neighborhood. 

For readers of Lisa Jewell’s NONE OF THIS IS TRUE and Liane Moriarty’s BIG LITTLE LIES.

Lucy is beautiful and cool, but restless and ready to blow up her picture-perfect life.

Awkward Rachel tries very hard to get everything right and cares desperately about her super-mom image.

Polished and sophisticated Grace has a high-powered job and the handsomest husband, but doing it all may not be as easy as she makes it look.

Carmen is an outsider, intently watching them, and she wants what they have.

A chilling tale of envy, desire, privilege, and parenthood, BAD LIKE ME unveils the secrets and betrayals behind the perfect facades of an idyllic neighborhood, and explores just how far a woman might be pushed by the ideal of being a good mother, or the fear of being a bad one.