The Mother-Daughter Book Club

The Mother-Daughter Book Club

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by James Patterson, Susan Patterson

standalone novel

published April 2026

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A standalone novel by James Patterson and his wife, Susan Patterson, The Mother-Daughter Book Club can be read by readers who enjoy women’s fiction with a thriller undercurrent. It can be read as a standalone.

Four college friends and their daughters make up the Mother-Daughter Book Club, but three years after a get-together that left things unresolved, they’ve been keeping in touch mostly by text rather than in person. Now they’ve finally reunited, this time at Lake Como in Italy. The setting delivers: boat trips, good food, evening cocktails, and the kind of conversation that only happens when old friends are away from their regular lives.

But alongside the nostalgia, something harder is surfacing. Elin, Grace, Mariella, and Jamie are all carrying secrets, and the longer they spend together, the more difficult those secrets become to hold. What exactly happened at that last book club night? And what does it mean for friendships that have lasted this long?