“Anyone who’s grown apart from old friends will recognize the yearning depicted here to make everything as it was.Readers are left wondering until the end which guest has died as well as who the killer is they will be well rewarded by the story’s ending. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window “A ripping, riveting murder mystery-wily as Agatha Christie, charged with real menace, real depth. When the estate manager and groundskeeper find one of the guests the death is anything but an accident.

But, tensions run deep, and everyone has dark secrets. “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 An annual getaway in the Scottish Highlands, nine friends gather for a New Year’s weekend. Keep your friends close, the old adage says. Everyone is a suspect in Lucy Foley’s clever murder mystery that harkens back to Agatha Christie and the Orient Express. Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead. . Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps, just as a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. 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.

From the author of the Reese Witherspoon book club pick The Guest ListĮveryone's invited.everyone's a suspect.ĭuring 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.

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