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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4.4 • 13 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The outstanding new psychological thriller from the 5 million copy-bestselling author of Here to Stay and The Magpies
“I loved this brilliant, edgy, character driven thriller with a passion. So clever and fresh with a wild and incredibly satisfying twist at the end.” 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 and tension you could cut with a knife. Hugely enjoyable.' Alex Michaelides
'Tense, artful and satisfying' Louise Candlish
'Highly entertaining...kept me guessing to the very last page' Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond
'The most gripping book I've read in ages' William Shaw
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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…
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
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.
Customer Reviews
Great read
Fab fab fab. Did not see that coming !!!!