The Wasp Trap
Six Friends. One Dinner. A Secret You Can’t Escape – A Twisted Thriller from the 5 Million Copy Bestseller Author
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The outstanding new psychological thriller from the 5 million copy-bestselling author of Here to Stay and The Magpies
'The plot swerves in an entirely unpredictable direction , providing an intriguing mystery that turns on their mentor's work on the behaviour of psychopaths' Sunday Times
‘I loved this... So clever and fresh with a wild and incredibly satisfying twist’ Lisa Jewell
'I devoured it in two compulsive sittings. 'Gripped' doesn't even come close!!' Marian Keyes
'A fast-paced thriller, full of twists upon twists. Hugely enjoyable' Alex Michaelides
'Twisty, clever, often funny, always inventive' Elly Griffiths
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Summer 1999. Will joins five other idealistic graduates working for an eccentric psychology professor. They’re going to launch a website to change online dating forever.
No-one expects it to end in tragedy.
Twenty-five years later, Will gets an invitation: a dinner party. A chance to see the old gang again.
But as soon as he arrives, something doesn’t seem right.
There’s an unexpected guest. The hosts are clearly keeping a secret. And on the way in, Will is sure he heard crying.
Everyone has something to hide about what really happened that summer.
But only one of them is willing to kill to find the truth…
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PRAISE FOR MARK EDWARDS
'I kept wanting to tear my eyes away but had to keep reading' IAN RANKIN
'Edwards is at the top of his game' ERIN KELLY
'Twisting and terrifying, the kind of haunting, pacy, spine-chiller that Mark Edwards is the absolute master of.' CHRIS WHITAKER
'I was hooked by this clever, fast paced and addictive thriller... I loved it' CLAIRE DOUGLAS
'Fast-paced and twisted: it’s another Mark Edwards sensation' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Tense, artful and satisfying' LOUISE CANDLISH
'Highly entertaining...kept me guessing to the very last page' LIZ NUGENT
Readers LOVE The Wasp Trap
'The best thriller I've read all year' 5 ***** Netgalley review
'Full of surprises, twists, turns, lies - I couldn't put this down' 5 ***** Netgalley review
'I forgot my plans for the day because of this book and honestly... no regrets' 5 ***** Netgalley review
'This book deserves the hype' 5 ***** Netgalley review
'Take a bow, Mark Edwards. Once again you've given us a tension filled, edge-of-the-seat thriller' 5 ***** Netgalley review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Six former colleagues reunite after the death of their mentor in this propulsive suspense novel from Edwards (The Psychopath Next Door). In 1999, former psychology professor Sebastian Marlowe recruited six recent university grads to work at a digital startup headquartered in his English country estate. The project, inspired by Sebastian's obsessive study of love in the months after his wife's murder, was an early algorithmic dating app. Twenty-five years later, Sebastian is dead, and his former employees reunite for his memorial. Among them is Lily, who worked with Sebastian on a side project to help identify sociopaths and shared a traumatic experience with the professor that both agreed to keep buried forever. During dinner, two of Sebastian's current employees take the group hostage and insist they reveal their darkest secrets. They're pursuing cryptic information that Sebastian alluded to on his deathbed—which Lily fears might be the very secret that could ruin her life. Edwards has a nasty good time airing his cast's dirty laundry, stoking plot momentum with big and small revelations that are almost universally unpredictable. This will keep readers turning pages well into the night.
