Ebook provided by NetGalley for review. Thank you.
Read April 2021.
9 friends go on a New Year's vacation to a hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands but not all of them will leave alive. A body has been found and everyone is snowed in... with the killer!
This book is told in dual timeline - leading up to the murder, and after the body is found - and has 5 points of view/narrators. I struggled at times to separate the voices and would have to use context clues to identify them. The blurb implied that everyone in the group had massive secrets to cover up but actually only a few did. Several of the characters seemed pointless in their inclusion, so little time was focused on them. The secrets we did find out took a little too long to be revealed and one in particular was a bit too cliche and a letdown.
By the end the author seemed confused by her own timeline. In the "now" chapters an unidentified guest was described as missing yet as the "before" chapters got closer to that time no-one was declared as missing. I did quite enjoy the fact that we didn't know who the victim or perpetrator were until the very moment of occurence.
The ending was a little abrupt and there was also a random extra side plot shoe-horned in which had little relevance to the rest of the novel.
3/5 stars
Stef Out x
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