Bluebeard’s First Wife

**A *Publishers Weekly* Top Ten Book of 2020** Disasters, accidents, and deaths abound in *Bluebeard’s First Wife*. A woman spends a night with her fiancé and his friends, and overhears a terrible secret that has bound them together since high school. A man grows increasingly agitated by the noise made by a young family living in the apartment upstairs and arouses the suspicion of his own wife when the neighbors meet a string of unlucky incidents. A couple moves into a picture-perfect country house, but when their new dog is stolen, they become obsessed with finding the thief, and in the process, neglect their child. The paranoia-inducing, heart-quickening stories in Ha’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed *Flowers of Mold* will have you reconsidering your own neighbors.