Salomé

Thank you to NetGalley and Putnam for the review copy of Salomé by Leslie Baird.

This was a fun, escapist read involving mysterious beautiful French people, secret societies, and a metaphorical fountain of youth as Courtney, traveling to celebrate her 31st birthday with her old roommate and frenemy in Paris, is invited to the country by a woman called Salomé, and for reasons, decides to go.

The buildup of tension in this is good, as Salomé’s family life is very strange, and through casual snooping, Courtney finds science-y books and notes written by Salomé’s now-dead father and finds out her parents were involved in research to find ways to to reduce aging and possibly even live forever, but then things got kind of culty, and now everyone’s in danger.

Things went in a bit of a different direction than I expected, but it all came to a satisfying conclusion and is a perfect thriller (with a little romance) for vacation reading.