One Perfect Couple
Are you a survivor – or a traitor?
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- Expected 18 Jul 2024
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Publisher Description
Pre-order the new edge-of-your-seat thriller from the bestselling author of The It Girl, the R&J pick.
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE meets THE TRAITORS
Five beautiful couples.
One deadly game.
Who will escape alive?
Lyla Santiago has spent months working on a research project that could be the key to getting a permanent job in her field.
So, she can’t really drop everything to go to a desert island with her actor boyfriend Nico to film One Perfect Couple, a new reality TV show that Nico is sure will lead to his big break – can she?
Two weeks later, Lyla finds herself boarding a boat to an isolated luxury resort in the Indian Ocean.
The rules of the game are simple. Ten strangers have to survive together on the island - and the last couple standing scoops the prize.
There will be sun, sea, laughs and plenty of flirting.
What could possibly go wrong?
But when a huge tropical storm cuts them off from everything, the group must band together.
As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla realises that someone is playing this game for real – and they'll stop at nothing to win.
Ten might have arrived, but who will survive to the end?
'A sun-soaked, deeply sinister and unputdownable read' Cressida McLaughlin
Praise for Ruth Ware:
‘A rocket ride that will satisfy the biggest thriller addicts out there’ DAVID BALDACCI
'Deliciously dark and utterly addictive' LUCY FOLEY
‘A breathless action thriller which packs an emotional punch’ CLARE MACKINTOSH
‘Hits the ground running and doesn’t let up till the last chapter’ ERIN KELLY
'A cracking read – and that ending!' SHARI LAPENA
'Every Ruth Ware novel is a unique and unexpected gem and this one is no exception. A heady, tense, slowburn dream of a book, multi-layered and steeped in atmosphere and peril. I loved every page' LISA JEWELL
'Absolutely brilliant murder mystery - seamless, flawless, perfectly clued and utterly gripping' SOPHIE HANNAH
'Impeccably crafted and totally compulsive – you’ll be sad to reach the final page and realise you have to say goodbye' JP DELANEY
'Ruth Ware is in a league of her own' JACK JORDAN
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Ware (Zero Days) fumbles a promising premise in this clever but slack closed-circle mystery. Biologist Lyla Santiago's postdoc research on mosquito-borne illnesses hits a wall when inconsistencies in her colleague's work threaten their grant funding. Rudderless, Lyla agrees to join her boyfriend, out-of-work actor Nico Reese, to film a reality TV competition called Ever After Island. On the Survivor-esque show, five couples complete in challenges on a remote island in the Indian Ocean and then vote to send one contestant home each week. Lyla plans to get eliminated quickly so she can return to London and sort out her future, leaving Nico behind to improve his career prospects. Her plan gets complicated, however, when a powerful storm sweeps across the island, isolating the contestants from the show's production crew. When people start turning up dead, Lyla has to decide whom to trust, taking the traditional stakes of reality TV alliances to nerve-shredding new heights. Ware has plenty of fun with her Agatha Christie–esque setup, but she fails too whip up sufficient suspense—the plot's resolution is simply too easy to crack. Readers will hope Ware returns to form next time out.
