Book Review: "The Perfect Couple" by Elin Hilderbrand

So last week I discovered that the Netflix show The Perfect Couple (which was so melodramatic and fun) was based on a book with the same name, by one of my favorite authors, Elin Hilderbrand. I’ve had the book on my shelf for a long while, so I decided to give it a read.

Most of the time, I read the book before I watch the adaptation, so doing the opposite gave me a different perspective. While I certainly saw the characters in my head as the actors who played them, fortunately there are some significant differences between the book and the show.

Summertime is glorious on Nantucket. It’s also wedding season, and the wedding of Celeste Otis and Benji Winbury promises to be the event everyone will be talking about. Famed mystery novelist Greer Winbury, Benji’s mother, has checked and rechecked every detail to ensure the wedding is perfect.

But as the day of the wedding dawns, tragedy strikes. Merritt, who is Celeste’s best friend and her maid of honor, is found floating in Nantucket Harbor. It doesn’t appear to have been an accidental drowning, which means someone involved in the wedding is responsible for Merritt’s death.

As the police chief investigates, he interviews the bride and the groom, as well as members of the family. He starts to discover that many people had secrets they wanted to keep hidden. But who was willing to kill to protect their secret?

I’m a big fan of Hilderbrand’s books, and this one was such a fun and addicting read. I love family drama and dysfunction, and I really like that she brought back characters from previous Nantucket books. I may be the last person to have read this, but if you haven't yet, it will definitely make a great beach book!