The Good Girl
Born to a prominent Chicago judge and his stifled socialite wife, Mia Dennett moves against the grain as a young inner-city art teacher. One night, Mia enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. With his smooth moves and modest wit, at first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia's life. Colin's job was to abduct Mia as part of a wild extortion plot and deliver her to his employers. But the plan takes an unexpected turn when Colin suddenly decides to hide Mia in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota, evading the police and his deadly superiors. Mia's mother, Eve, and detective Gabe Hoffman will stop at nothing to find them, but no one could have predicted the emotional entanglements that eventually cause this family's world to shatter.
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Mia Dennett, an art teacher and the estranged daughter of a Chicago judge, leaves a bar with a stranger named Colin Thatcher. Instead of taking her where his employers asked, Colin drives her to a remote Minnesota cabin. The story alternates between her mother Eve, the lead detective, and Colin.
No. The Good Girl is a standalone Mary Kubica thriller, her debut novel from 2014. Kubica has written more than ten standalone domestic thrillers since.
A film adaptation has been announced. As of 2025, the project remains in development. Earlier projects with different studios fell through.
The Good Girl was written by Mary Kubica, published in 2014 by Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited.
The Good Girl is 400 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Good Girl takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
The Good Girl is a standalone novel by Mary Kubica, not part of a series.
The Good Girl is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
