The New Year's Party
A Novel
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- $249.00
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- $249.00
Descripción editorial
"The twists don’t let up in this propulsive and wildly entertaining book that epitomizes the saying, 'With friends like these, who needs enemies?'"
—Ashley Winstead, USA TODAY bestselling author
New Year’s Eve hits different in your thirties. Especially when the party ends in murder.
It used to be an annual thing—the raucous New Year’s party full of games and hors d'oeuvres. But for Olivia and her friends, the chaos of their thirties has really challenged the definition of annual. It’s been a few years since the close friends were last…close. But this year is gonna be different. The burnout, parenting stress, credit card debt, job drama, marriage troubles, addiction—they’re going to set it all aside for the night. No, really. They swear.
Oh, except for the secrets. Every last person has one… But secrets are only as good as the people you trust to keep them, and when the wrong one slips out…well, friends or not, that just might become motive for murder.
Everybody thinks they know their closest friends—until somebody winds up dead.
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Satterthwaite (Made for You) serves up a solid thriller about a holiday tradition turned deadly. Though it's been a few years since Nathan Phelps hosted a New Year's Eve party for his high school friends Bennett, Doug, and Will, he and his new girlfriend are all in for the bash's return. Things get off to a rough start when Doug's wife, Hellie, accuses Will of being complicit in Doug losing his job. Then tensions arise between Bennett and Nathan, whom Bennett confronts about sleeping with his wife at the New Year's party five years before. When cocaine and alcohol enter the mix, a brawl breaks out between Hellie and Will's wife, Jenn, who fancies herself spiritually superior to her fellow guests, and the festivities officially spiral out of control. Over the course of the evening, nearly everyone makes bombshell revelations, forges new alliances, and rehashes old grudges, so when one of the party guests turns up dead the following morning, there's no shortage of suspects. The setup is formulaic, but Satterthwaite uses her well-drawn cast of jaundiced and wounded 30-somethings to inject the proceedings with real feeling. It's a wicked treat.
