The Guest List: From the author of The Hunting Party, the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and prize winning mystery thriller in 2021
Lucy Foley, whose debut thriller The Hunting Party earned her a No. 1 spot on the Sunday Times bestseller list, returns with another tightly wound whodunit that won a prize in 2021. The setting is a remote island, chosen by Jules Keegan and Will Slater as the backdrop for what promises to be a spectacular wedding. Thirteen guests make the journey. Not all of them are glad to be there. Old friendships carry old wounds, and beneath the clinking glasses and confetti, something is quietly festering. Then a body turns up before the cake has even been properly sliced. A storm rolls in, cutting the island off from the mainland entirely, and suddenly everyone is very much stuck with everyone else. It's the sort of situation where smiles stop working as camouflage. Every single guest, it turns out, has something to hide, and more than one of them had good reason to want somebody dead. Foley keeps you guessing with real confidence, parcelling out suspicion across the whole group rather than pointing too obviously in any one direction. Short, charged chapters keep the pace lively, and the bleak, wind-battered island atmosphere does a lot of heavy lifting. A thoroughly satisfying mystery for fans of closed-circle crime fiction.
- Author: Lucy Foley
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Genre: Thrillers & Suspense
- ISBN: 978-0008403775
- Pages: 384 pages