My Favorite Kind Of Whodunit, Kept Me Guessing All The Way Through, And Reminiscent Of Agatha Christie At Her Best -- With An Extra Dose Of Acid. -- Alex Michaelides, Author Of The #1 New York Times Bestseller The Silent Patient Everyone's Invited...everyone's A Suspect... For Fans Of Ruth Ware And Tana French, A Shivery, Atmospheric, Page-turning Novel Of Psychological Suspense In The Tradition Of Agatha Christie, In Which A Group Of Old College Friends Are Snowed In At A Hunting Lodge . . . And Murder And Mayhem Ensue. All Of Them Are Friends. One Of Them Is A Killer. During The Languid Days Of The Christmas Break, A Group Of Thirtysomething Friends From Oxford Meet To Welcome In The New Year Together, A Tradition They Began As Students Ten Years Ago. For This Vacation, They've Chosen An Idyllic And Isolated Estate In The Scottish Highlands--the Perfect Place To Get Away And Unwind By Themselves. They Arrive On December 30th, Just Before A Historic Blizzard Seals The Lodge Off From The Outside World. Two Days Later, On New Year's Day, One Of Them Is Dead. The Trip Began Innocently Enough: Admiring The Stunning If Foreboding Scenery, Champagne In Front Of A Crackling Fire, And Reminiscences About The Past. But After A Decade, The Weight Of Secret Resentments Has Grown Too Heavy For The Group's Tenuous Nostalgia To Bear. Amid The Boisterous Revelry Of New Year's Eve, The Cord Holding Them Together Snaps. Now One Of Them Is Dead . . . And Another Of Them Did It. Keep Your Friends Close, The Old Adage Goes. But Just How Close Is Too Close?

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK\nTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\nONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR\n“I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient\n"Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics…Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. They are all clues.” -- New York Times Book Review\nA wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party.\nThe bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner – The bridesmaid – The body\nOn an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.\nBut perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.\nAnd then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?