Traps - Softcover

"Taut but nuanced, a character-driven thriller that is both suspenseful and intelligent." --Vogue

"Bezos writes spare, present-tense prose that lends her writing an urgency as four women slip in and out of psychic and emotional peril." --The New York Times Book Review

"Sweet are the uses of adversity, writes Shakespeare, and MacKenzie Bezos explores that proposition. . . . Her characters are beautifully delineated and arrestingly original." --Geraldine Brooks

"Cleverly orchestrated. . . . Each woman is impressively rendered." --Kirkus Reviews

Reclusive movie star Jessica Lessing is finally coming out of hiding—to confront her father, a con man who has been selling her out to the paparazzi for years. On her four-day road trip to Las Vegas, she encounters three unexpected allies—Vivian, a teenager with newborn twins; Lynn, a dog shelter owner living in isolation on a ranch in rural Nevada; and Dana, a fearless ex-military bodyguard wrestling with secrets of her own. As their fates collide, each woman will find a chance at redemption that she never would have thought possible. MacKenzie Bezos’s taut prose, tough characters, and nuanced insights give this novel a complexity that few thrillers can match.