A Death At The Party by Amy Stuart.
Thank you to Simon And Schuster Canada for the gifted copy in exchange for my honest review.
Book Synopsis
In this tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day, a woman prepares for a party that goes dreadfully wrong—for fans of Ashley Audrain and Lisa Jewell.
Nadine Walsh’s summer garden party is in full swing. The neighbors all have cocktails, the catered food is exquisite—everything’s going according to plan.
But Nadine—devoted wife, loving mother, and doting daughter—finds herself standing over a dead body in her basement while her guests clink glasses upstairs. What happened? How did it come to this?
Rewind to that morning, when Nadine is in her kitchen, making last-minute preparations before she welcomes more than a hundred guests to her home to celebrate her mother’s birthday. But her husband is of little help to her, her two grown children are consumed with their own concerns, and her mother—only her mother knows that today isn’t just a birthday party. It marks another anniversary as well.
Still, Nadine will focus just on tonight. Everyone deserves a celebration after the year they’ve had. A chance for fun. A chance to forget. But it’s hard to forget when Nadine’s head is swirling with secrets, haunting memories, and concerns about what might happen when her guests unite.
My Review
The book starts with a murder and this is not a spoiler, as the reader is presented with the scene right from page one. What made this book a really interesting read for me was that you know who the killer is, but you don't know who the victim is.
The book is divided into parts of the day of the party which consist of the morning, afternoon, and evening. The events of this one day are told from the perspective of the novels sole narrator, Nadine, and as more and more guests arrive, food and drinks are enjoyed and secrets are revealed. Though there is an element of the unreliable narrator plot device used in this book, it isn't used in quite the same manner as we have seen widely used in recent years and author Amy Stuart has put a bit of a creative and mysterious spin on it rather than just have the narrator be deemed unreliable due to the misuse of drugs and/or alcohol. You will just have to read the book to find out what Nadine’s story is.
I haven't read the Still series by this author, but I am definitely going to add it to my tbr list.
My Rating: 4/5
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Book Details
Author: Amy Stuart
Publisher: Simon And Schuster
Publication Date: March 7, 2023.
Genre: Thriller. Suspense. Mystery. Fiction. Mystery Thriller. Psychological Thriller.
Edition: Paperback.
Pages: 304.
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