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Set in the upscale DC private school scene, where silence can easily be bought, Aggie Blum Thompson's All the Dirty Secrets asks how far you would go to protect your status and your family, and if some secrets should ever be revealed. One warm summer night twenty-five years ago, Liza Gold and her friends celebrated their high school graduation with a party on the beach. It should have been the best night of their lives, only one of them never came back out of the ocean.The tragedy haunted Liza Gold for years. Now, she's a recently divorced working mom struggling to connect with her standoffish teenager daughter Zoe when history repeats itself. Another young woman has drowned at Beach Week, and this time the victim is Zoe’s secret best friend.Liza begins to suspect that the two deaths are somehow related, which causes her to face hard truths and take an unflinching look at the people she’s called her closest friends for the past two decades. She must discover what really happened to both women before it’s too late.

Aggie Blum Thompson worked as a newspaper reporter, covering cops, courts, and trials, with a healthy dose of the mundane mixed in. Her writing has appeared in such newspapers as the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. Her first novel, I Don’t Forgive You, was called “A perceptive and beautifully assured piece of domestic noir” by the Washington Post. Aggie lives just over the Washington D.C. line in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband, two children, cat, and dog. Visit her online at aggieblumthompson.com, at Facebook.com/AggieBlumThompsonAuthor, or on Instagram @aggie.blum.thompson.