Apples Never Fall Reading Order

Apples Never Fall (2021) by Liane Moriarty is a domestic mystery organized around the disappearance of Joy Delaney, the sixty-nine-year-old matriarch of a tennis family in Sydney. Joy has been missing for several days when the novel opens; her husband Stan is the first suspect; their four adult children have gathered, divided, and begun to doubt one another. The novel moves back and forth between the investigation and the events of the previous year, when a mysterious young woman named Savannah appeared at the Delaneys' door and stayed for months, altering the family's dynamics in ways that led to Joy's disappearance. Moriarty's most recent major standalone, organized around the question of what happens when the couple at the center of a family is more fragile than anyone realized.