[Blog Tour] [Review] Too Close to Home - Seraphina Nova Glass

Genre: Thrillers / Suspense | Pub date: April 14, 2026

Summary: Those lucky enough to live in the elite lakefront community of Cloverhill Lakes are drawn to it for its safety and top-notch school district. The moms meet for coffee at the park while their kids play, they’re heavily involved in the PTA, and the summers are filled with chardonnay, brunch, sundresses, and backyard bonfires.

But everything changes when Regan Hoffman’s car explodes at the annual Labor Day party. The wrong person is killed, but it was meant for her. As the carefully crafted walls of her community begin to crumble, Regan tries to keep it together—something made infinitely harder when she sees her dead husband…alive.

When a Cloverhill Lakes resident suddenly goes missing, dark secrets begin to surface from underneath the idyllic veneer of their beautiful community—and the truth threatens to destroy them all as Regan finds herself in a fight for her life. (Pub Date: Apr 14 2026)

It all starts when a car explodes in the middle of a barbecue in an elite community. Then a bomb threat at school, followed by the disappearance of one of the community members. Finally, a sighting of Reagan's husband, who was supposed to be dead for two years. How can so much be happening where it was supposed to be the safest places? Maybe they're all going crazy.

3.5, rounded up.

I had been skeptical, but it does have a feeling of Liane Moriarty, and not only because we get the points of view of three woman in a tight high-class community. There is all that family problems mixed with dead bodies and sketchy teenagers that I've always considered to be Moriarty's trademark. 

In any case, this was the quickest read I had in a long, long time. Both because it is quite easy to read, and because I wanted to know more. Also, it wasn't even that I wanted to get to the bottom of the mystery—I did want to know too—but there was something fun, especially for Andi's part, in guessing how far she'd get. Yes, it was all very fun. Sure, things do get more serious eventually, but for a lot of the book it was mysterious and above all fun.

However, this is probably just meant to be a fun read. I find that the characters were better developed in this book than in the previous one I had read by the author, but there was still something out of place with them. However, as long as you read it lightly, it's just super funny how dumb every and each of them can be.

Of course I'll be recommending this read. You get fun, mystery, explosions, murder, great cliffhangers—you'll be flipping those pages without even noticing.

Honest review based on an ARC provided by Netgalley. Many thanks to the publisher for this opportunity.

Rating: 4 out of 5.