In Tell Me Everything, characters from the author’s previous works, Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge, finally meet and form an unlikely friendship in Crosby, Maine. The story unfolds primarily through the perspective of Bob Burgess, a local lawyer who becomes entangled in a murder investigation.

It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been.