Karen is recently divorced and lives with her two kids in a nice suburb of New York City. She’s teaching at a nearby elementary school, starting to date again, and for the first time in years has found joy in her life. Karen’s neighbour, Mark, is seventeen years into an unhappy marriage, wants out, and so does his wife, Deb, but they have been staying together for their kids. Unbeknown to Karen, Mark has had a rich fantasy life about her which has grown into a full-blown obsession. Rumours start to spread about Karen and when a bigger secret is uncovered she becomes a murder suspect and the target of a twisted psychopath. Savage Lane is Jason Starr’s most accomplished novel yet, a searing, tense domestic thriller with hidden motives and dark secrets, where nothing is as it seems, and an honest, raw meditation on a declining marriage and obsessive love.
