El Dorado Drive

By Megan Abbott

Book Overview

Named a Best Book of Summer by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, CrimeReads, and more

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Turnout comes a simmering, atmospheric novel of friendship and betrayal, following a women-led pyramid scheme in suburban Detroit.

"Abbott is a superstar of the suspense genre." --NPR

All I want is to be innocent again. But that's not how it works. Especially not after the Wheel.

The three Bishop sisters grew up in privilege in the moneyed suburbs of Detroit. But as the auto industry declined, so did their fortunes. Harper, the youngest, is barely making ends meet when her beloved, charismatic sister Pam--currently in the middle of a contentious battle with her ex-husband--and her eldest sister, Debra, approach her about joining an exciting new club.

The Wheel offers women like themselves--middle-aged and of declining means--a way to make their own money, independent of husbands or families. Quickly, however, the Wheel's success, and their own addiction to it, leads to greater and greater risks--and a crime so shocking it threatens to bring everything down with it.

Megan Abbott turns her keen eye toward women and money in El Dorado Drive, a riveting story about power, vulnerability, and how desperation draws out our most destructive impulses.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593084969
• ISBN13: 9780593084960
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Money is the root of all evil!

Money is the root of all evil, and if it sounds too good to be true (especially free money!) it probably has a catch and as soon as I got to the section with Pam explaining this awesome club for women in need of empowerment I started yelling at Harper to get out because it so obviously a pyramid scheme! Though I can see how the sisters got sucked in, and the other women because it would be hard to have gone from rich and no money worries, to losing everything, including an ex-husband who decided to drain his kids trust funds. Talk about awful! Though even that has more to it. It is all tied to money though, the lack of it, the plans to get it back and how some people will do anything for it, including the pyramid scheme and possible murder. So, yeah while I was getting invested in the twists and turns on the way to the sisters regaining their fortunes, I could feel the club winding tighter and tighter, knowing it would fall eventually and then a whole lot of people would be hurting. I did enjoy the story and I did have to keep reading because I had to find out what happened. The ending was a bit confusing, especially with so many people being blamed and it was kind of sad what really happened with Pam. I will definitely say, money, especially if it is sketchy how you got it, will be at the root and desperate people will do anything for cold hard cash!