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People s Best New Books Pick The Wall Street Journal s Best New Mysteries Fans of Gillian Flynn s Gone Girl will devour this fast-paced story. --InStyle Readers drawn to this compelling psychological thriller because of its shared elements with Gillian Flynn s Gone Girl (2012) will be pleasantly surprised to discover that Mejia s confident storytelling pulls those themes into an altogether different exploration of manipulation and identity. --Booklist (starred review) 2017 s Best Fiction Books --Bustle 12 Books Gone Girl Fans Should Have on Their Wish List --BookBub No one knows who she really is.. Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student the good daughter the good girlfriend. But Hattie wants something more something bigger and ultimately something that turns out to be exceedingly dangerous. When she s found brutally stabbed to death the tragedy rips right through the fabric of her small-town community. It soon comes to light that Hattie was engaged in a highly compromising and potentially explosive secret online relationship. The question is: Did anyone else know? And to what lengths might they have gone to end it? Hattie s boyfriend seems distraught over her death but had he fallen so deeply in love with her that she had become an obsession? Or did Hattie s impulsive daredevil nature simply put her in the wrong place at the wrong time leading her to a violent death at the hands of a stranger? Full of twists and turns Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman during which a small town s darkest secrets come to the forefront..and she inches closer and closer to death. Evocative and razor-sharp Everything You Want Me to Be challenges you to test the lines between innocence and culpability identity and deception. Does love lead to self-discovery--or destruction?