The Last Guests
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4.0 • 55 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Ever have the feeling you're being watched? A smart, unsettling, unputdownable literary thriller from the award-winning, critically acclaimed writer
Lina and Cain are doing their best to stay afloat. Money has been tight since Cain returned from active duty, and starting a family is proving harder than they thought.
Putting Lina's inherited lake house up for rent at weekends seems like the solution to at least one of their problems. The secluded house is more of a burden than a retreat, anyway, and fixing up the old place makes Cain feel useful for once.
But letting strangers stay in their house might not be the best idea. Someone is watching - their most mundane tasks, their most intimate moments - and all the things Lina and Cain want to keep hidden will be exposed.
A darkly riveting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Call Me Evie, In the Clearing and Tell Me Lies.
'A twisty thriller ... Possibly not one to read in your rented holiday cottage. I'll certainly be checking the light fittings at my next beach holiday rental' The Age
'Chilling . . . Should keep readers up at night. Pomare knows how to keep the pages turning' Publishers Weekly
'An emerging master of the taut and fast-flowing psychological thriller' ArtsHub
'a plot that will drag breathless readers to the finish line' Herald Sun
'This is a rip-snorting read that burbles along on fine prose, from a novelist who while still early in his career has already stamped his mark as a masterful storyteller. An excellent read from a must-read author' Good Reading
'Tense and dark and twisty - don't look away' Michael Robotham, author of When You Are Mine
'J.P. Pomare's first two books rocked my world - this one manages to exceed them. The Last Guests is a cunning, complex, contemporary thrill-ride.' Christian White, author of The Nowhere Child
'The Last Guests is a twisty thriller with an ending I didn't see coming. A cautionary tale for our times.' Megan Goldin, author of The Night Swim
'Pomare's latest creation will keep you guessing right up to the last page.' Rose Carlyle, author of The Girl in the Mirror
'Couldn't put it down, can't stop thinking about it. Bump it to the top of your must-read list immediately.' Anna Downes, author of The Safe Place
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The eeriness of J.P. Pomare’s The Last Guests kicks in from the first chapter, when an unknown voyeur places hidden cameras in a vacation rental home. Updates from these cameras (and others) arrive every few chapters under the heading “Peephole Transmission”, ratcheting up the tension of the carefully constructed main plot, which follows Auckland paramedic Lina as she struggles to keep her marriage afloat and her personal secrets buried. Pomare, author of the thrillers Call Me Evie and Tell Me Lies, is in top form in this novel. It delivers a fresh take on the haunted house motif and explores themes of deceit and obfuscation by probing the way modern technologies promise both anonymity and surveillance. The result is a gripping book that is as suspenseful as it is creepy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After seven years together, Auckland, New Zealand, paramedic Lina Phillips, the narrator of this chilling psychological thriller from Pomare (In the Clearing), and her husband, Cain, a former SAS commando turned fitness coach, have hit a rough patch. Unbeknownst to Cain, Lina is gambling on a plot to save their marriage that could just end up shattering their lives instead. With the couple seriously cash-strapped, Lina reluctantly agrees—perhaps because of guilt over the toxic secret she's concealing from Cain—to his urging to list their remote Lake Tarawera vacation property, her memory-laden childhood home, on the home-sharing platform WeStay. At first it's easy money. But then she starts getting threatening texts from a stalker who seems able to spy on her in real time during the pair's visits to the house—and the terror skyrockets from there. While some of the twists prove less than convincing, this descent into all-too-plausible cyber voyeurism scenarios should keep readers up at night for more reasons than one. Pomare knows how to keep the pages turning.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant and scary
Loved this story, it was so tense and thrilling with lots of twists to keep me guessing. Hoping to read more from this author in the future.
The Last Guests
A great thriller with many twists & turns. Loved it
Amazing
Loved all the twists and turns and could literally not put this book down