Book ~ "It's Always the Husband" (2017) Michele Campbell

From Goodreads ~ Kate, Aubrey and Jenny. They first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, even though they are as different as three women can be. Twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge ... and someone else is urging her to jump.

How did things come to this?

As the novel cuts back and forth between their college years and their adult years, you see the exact reasons why these women love and hate each other - but can feelings that strong lead to murder? Or will everyone assume, as is often the case, that it’s always the husband?

Kate, Jenny and Aubrey met in their freshman year at an elite college as roommates. They couldn’t be more different ... Kate was rich and wild, Jenny was ambitious straitlace townie and Aubrey was poor, desperate to fit in and obsessed with Kate (it seemed that everyone was obsessed with Kate). There was lots of partying, questionable decisions and eventually a tragic incident. Fast forward twenty years and the three are back in their old college town, each with their own lives but still friends (but were they?). When one of them died, the police investigated and secrets were revealed. 

I thought this story was okay, not great. It tended to be a bit draggy at times and the writing could have been tighter. It's written in third person perspective. The timeline jumps around from the past (when the women met and were friends/roommates in college) to present day. I didn't find any of the women (or any of the characters) likeable. As the ending drew near, there were suddenly lots of possibilities as to who could have dunnit and I found who actually dunnit a bit of a letdown. As a head's up, there is swearing.