Book Review: I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick

I Killed Zoe Spanos
by Kit Frick (YA Frick)

I Killed Zoe Spanos is a psychological thriller that’s (quite intentionally) a contemporary tribute to Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. I drank it down in two sessions and that was only because I had to go to work in the middle.

 

Anna Cicconi has just graduated high school and is going to be a nanny for a wealthy professional couple in the Hamptons for the summer. All very pleasant, except when people around the community see her, they act like they’ve seen a ghost. Anna is almost a dead ringer for a missing girl: Zoe Spanos. Worse, Anna is starting to have scattered memories about the weekend Zoe disappeared and can’t account for her own whereabouts. The book actually opens with Anna confessing to the police that she killed Zoe, before flashing back to the start of her summer.

 

The secondary protagonist, Martina, is a high school girl who runs a podcast investigating the disappearance of her friend Zoe Spanos. She’s not satisfied that Anna’s confession explains what happened.

 

If you’re looking for a virtual summer getaway with Gothic suspense vibes — mansions, family secrets, and potentially murderous relationship drama — look no farther.

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan, or Mexican Gothic by Silvio Moreno-Garcia.]

[ official I Killed Zoe Spanos page on the official Kit Frick web site ]

 

Recommended by Garren H.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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