Debbie Mullen has built a quiet life in Hingham, Massachusetts: two teenage daughters, a steady marriage, and a beloved advice column where women confess the kinds of secrets that never make it into small talk. Debbie’s gift is seeing what others miss—patterns, lies, leverage. She swears by patience and “doing the right thing”… until her own world starts splintering. A humiliating professional setback, a rival neighbor’s smug victory, a daughter’s hidden crisis, and a husband’s increasingly suspicious behavior push Debbie past the point of swallowing her anger.
Then Debbie makes a decision that changes everything: she stops giving advice and starts taking it—literally. What follows is a sharp, unsettling spiral of retaliation, secrets, and carefully engineered consequences, as Debbie’s past trauma resurfaces and her “help” begins to look a lot like vengeance. If you love thrillers where the heroine is both protector and predator, Dear Debbie will keep you turning pages.
