THE WEEKEND GUESTS by Liza North serves up a dark, twisty, nail-biting thriller that keeps readers guessing as a group of five friends reunite at a cliffside house to drink, laugh, reminisce, and uncover the one who can’t keep a secret.
Aline, Rob, Sienna, Michael, and Brandon met during college. Five friends enjoying the freedom of their youth, befriending an awkward graduate student, and spending their weekends partying. Yet, something happened on a trip to Dorset that distanced the group of friends from each other. Now seventeen years later, they are reconvening at Aline and Brandon’s cliffside mansion, complete with an on-site nanny and plenty of food and drinks. Aline has the perfect weekend planned, including midnight runs, days at the beach, board games, and an unsettling presence that hovers around the group. No one wants to speak of the cryptic postcards each has started receiving lately, and no one wants to talk about what happened that one fateful night long ago.
THE WEEKEND GUESTS is addictively wicked and thrilling. Five friends with a terrible secret, reconnecting and feeling the fallout with their families along for the ride. Told in dual timeline narratives, readers will be racing through the pages to see how the stories collide and witness the aftermath. The characters are nuanced and complex, with backstories supplying the motivations and inconsistencies in their actions. Some characters are redeemable, while others are incorrigible. The pacing is spot-on with short chapters and vivid storytelling. The twists are nicely planned, and the ending supplies a fitting resolution to a complicated winless situation. Filled with youthful abandon, life-changing events, fractured relationships, childhood traumas, a cliffside reunion, guilt, betrayal, secrets, and revenge, THE WEEKEND GUESTS has everything readers need to get lost in this atmospheric and creepy getaway that will literally have you hanging on the edge of a cliff.
In the vein of Lucy Foley’s chilling, atmospheric mysteries, a compulsive, psychological thriller about a group of old university friends whose seaside reunion will end in betrayal and murder.
Five old friends . . . One reunion to die for
After years apart, old college friends Aline, Sienna, Rob, Michael, and Brandon reunite in idyllic Dorset, for a weekend at Aline’s beautiful house perched on a cliff above the sea. It should be the perfect chance to relax, rekindle friendships, and meet each other’s partners; plus, there’s a sitter to watch the kids.
What most of the guests don’t know, however, is that Aline has called them all together for a reason: someone has threatened to expose the dark crime they committed at university. Long ago, these old friends swore one another to silence, and have never spoken of the deed since. But now, menacing postcards have begun to appear—and Aline is convinced it’s one of them turning on the rest.
In Liza North’s propulsive and unsettling dual timeline narrative, truths emerge, secrets surface, and long-simmering grudges explode—and by the end of this reunion weekend, at least one of them will be dead . . .
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