A Death At The Party
‘Seductive and twisted. Highly recommended!’ - SHARI LAPENA
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3.9 • 13 Ratings
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- £2.99
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**THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**
THE PLANNING TOOK MONTHS. THE MURDER JUST MOMENTS . . .
'Seductive and twisted. Highly recommended!' SHARI LAPENA'
A dazzling and dark 'locked room' murder mystery. A searing and compulsive mystery with deliciously dark twists' 5***** READER REVIEW
'Wow. Once started I could not put this book down. It had me gripped from the first to last page. Secrets, lies, twists. A great summer read' 5***** READER REVIEW
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Nadine Walsh's party started with excitement. But it ended in murder . . .
In the day, she frets over the final details. She's determined to make this the event of the year. A chance for everyone to forget the past.
In the evening, she's distracted. Her husband and two grown children are consumed with their own concerns. The neighbours are getting on her nerves. But it's Nadine's own secrets that threaten the party.
By the end of the night, she will be standing over a dead body . . .
But which of her guests will she have murdered? And why?
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PRAISE FOR A DEATH AT THE PARTY
'Absolutely compulsive reading. I inhaled this book over twenty-four hours' LIZ NUGENT
'Made me hold my breath from the first line to the last' SAMANTHA M. BAILEY
'Ominous and intimate' ASHLEY AUDRAIN
'Chilling' STEPHANIE WROBEL
READERS ARE THRILLED TO BE JOINING THE PARTY . . .
'I read this gripping book in one day' 5***** READER REVIEW
'What a party to be at!' 5***** READER REVIEW
'Brilliant story keeping you in suspense from start to finish' 5***** READER REVIEW
'I loved the twist at the end' 5***** READER REVIEW
'The plot kept me guessing right up until the final revelation' 5***** READER REVIEW
'Amy writes captivatingly and brings her characters to life' 5***** READER REVIEW
'A brilliantly plotted novel' 5***** READER REVIEW
'This book gripped me from the very beginning' 5***** READER REVIEW
'Twisty and full of suspense. I was on the edge of my seat' 5***** READER REVIEW
'An absolutely riveting story. A must-read' 5***** READER REVIEW
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Virginia Woolf meets Agatha Christie in this taut psychological thriller from Stuart (Still Here). Around midnight in a basement bathroom, Nadine Walsh, who's hosting a birthday party upstairs for her 60-year-old mother, a bestselling thriller writer, checks the pulse of an unidentified dying man. After he dies, Nadine, who lives in "Winngrove, an affluent-but-liberal village within a city," returns to the party without being spotted leaving the basement. Flashbacks starting early that morning follow Nadine as she prepares for more than a hundred guests that evening. Her lawyer husband doesn't help much, nor do their two self-absorbed teenage children. She feels judged by her 24-year-old niece, who has lived with the Walshes since Nadine fell down the stairs and broke her hip six months before. She also contends with her unresolved feelings for her rags to riches mother and the lingering trauma of a family tragedy that occurred exactly 30 years earlier. Stuart's complex lead immediately grabs the reader's sympathy, even if she is a killer. Fans of Mrs. Dalloway, which provides the book's epigraph, will want to check this one out.
