This book has been getting a lot of buzz. It deserves every word of it. I was fascinated by it. I'm not going to say I was surprised by the resolution of the mystery, because I wasn't. However, how the author got there was interesting.
We have a variation of the confined group murder mystery. Seven people went to a private island and one died there. One of the other six must, therefor, be the murderer. We also have an unreliable narrator to contend with, although we don't know that at the start. That makes the events even more jumbled that they might have seemed.
Lana, our leading woman, is a movie star and a very rich person. She "retired" from the movies after the death of her first husband and moved to England. She developed a small social circle. She liked to invite them all to her private island near Greece, where it was warmer and drier than London in the spring. Going with her was Kate, her best female friend, Jason, her husband, Elliot, her best male friend, Leo, her son, and Agathi, her companion. Already on the island was Nikos, the caretaker. A conventional story would have had Elliot kill Jason so he could become Lana's husband. That was Elliot's goal, only he was going to have someone else do the actual killing. He had it all planned and written down in his diary. That was a mistake, but it wasn't Elliot's first or biggest one.
I liked this book. It was just twisty enough to keep me reading when I should have put the book down and done something else. I highly recommend it to you. And no, I won't tell you who the murderer is. Then you won't need to read it. I think you should.
I want to thank the publisher who gave me this book through BookishFirst. I voluntarily read and reviewed this book.
We have a variation of the confined group murder mystery. Seven people went to a private island and one died there. One of the other six must, therefor, be the murderer. We also have an unreliable narrator to contend with, although we don't know that at the start. That makes the events even more jumbled that they might have seemed.
Lana, our leading woman, is a movie star and a very rich person. She "retired" from the movies after the death of her first husband and moved to England. She developed a small social circle. She liked to invite them all to her private island near Greece, where it was warmer and drier than London in the spring. Going with her was Kate, her best female friend, Jason, her husband, Elliot, her best male friend, Leo, her son, and Agathi, her companion. Already on the island was Nikos, the caretaker. A conventional story would have had Elliot kill Jason so he could become Lana's husband. That was Elliot's goal, only he was going to have someone else do the actual killing. He had it all planned and written down in his diary. That was a mistake, but it wasn't Elliot's first or biggest one.
I liked this book. It was just twisty enough to keep me reading when I should have put the book down and done something else. I highly recommend it to you. And no, I won't tell you who the murderer is. Then you won't need to read it. I think you should.
I want to thank the publisher who gave me this book through BookishFirst. I voluntarily read and reviewed this book.