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Evoking the great Agatha Christie classics. Lucy Foley’s clever, taut new novel,… takes us to a creepy island off the coast of Ireland…. Foley builds her suspense slowly and creepily, deploying an array of narrators bristling with personal secrets…. Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. They are all clues.
New York Times Book Review


[E]ntertaining if uneven ... Foley defers disclosing the murder victim’s identity until quite late, but she undercuts the suspense with obvious indications of who it is.… [Still,] readers seeking thrills will find plenty.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review) Foley outdoes herself again with this page-turning thriller…. Only a handful of thriller writers can accomplish what Foley does here: weave a complex plot from the perspectives of eight characters plus an omniscient narrator without causing confusion. —Adriana Delgado, West Palm Beach, FL
Library Journal


At times the story threatens to overwhelm itself with a bit too much ominous darkness and "anxious distraction," but fans of the genre will enjoy the proceedings, imagining just how good that sumptuous wedding cake might have tasted.
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