College friends Jonathan, Keith, Stephanie, Derrick, and Maeve are upstate in the Catskills for the weekend for a co-ed bachelor party—at least that’s their cover story. Jonathan is marrying Peter; that much is true, though details are suspiciously scarce. A successful art dealer, Keith’s also an opioid addict locked in a harrowing tailspin. And now his oldest friends have only 48 hours to convince him to check himself into rehab or he’ll lose his business—and maybe much more. A decade on, the death of their friend Alice looms over all of them; each has struggled in the years since they left school. But as it soon becomes abundantly clear, a long weekend at Jonathan’s immaculate estate in Kaaterskill Falls isn’t going to fix anything. By dawn one of the friends is dead, another missing. Detective Julia Sternbach, intent on sorting fact from fiction, dives headfirst into the case. As she untangles the truth about an evening gone awry, she quickly discovers that everyone has something to hide, maybe even including her. Friends Like These is a riveting mystery that examines the risks of blind devotion and the devastating cost of overlooking your true enemies.