El Dorado Drive

El Dorado Drive

Megan Abbott

#1967 of 8,085 books · #642 in Crime & Thriller

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2025).

El Dorado Drive won the USA TODAY Bestseller designation and was named a Best Mystery/Thriller of 2025 by Elle and Crime Reads, an NPR 2025 Book We Love, and a Best Book of 2025 by Library Journal. All I want is to be innocent again. But that's not how it works. Especially not after the Wheel. The three Bishop sisters grew up in privilege in the moneyed suburbs of Detroit. But as the auto industry declined, so did their fortunes. Harper, the youngest, is barely making ends meet when her beloved, charismatic sister Pam—currently in the middle of a contentious battle with her ex-husband—and her eldest sister, Debra, approach her about joining an exciting new club. The Wheel offers women like themselves—middle-aged and of declining means—a way to make their own money, independent of husbands or families. Quickly, however, the Wheel's success, and their own addiction to it, leads to greater and greater risks—and a crime so shocking it threatens to bring everything down with it. Megan Abbott turns her keen eye toward women and money in El Dorado Drive, a riveting story about power, vulnerability, and how desperation draws out our most destructive impulses.