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A review by kba76
Her Best Friend's Lie by Laura Wolfe
3.0
A group of old college friends head off on a vacation together. They haven’t seen one another for a few years (life/kids/work etc get in the way) and see this as the perfect chance to reconnect.
Things start badly when their luxurious lakeside retreat turns out to be a rundown cabin near a deserted camp where someone was murdered. Their closest neighbour is the gun-wielding tattooed guy who owns their cabin. Determined to make the best of things, they get drunk and settle down for the night.
What follows quickly launches into crazy territory. One of their party is found murdered. Their only way out is removed as their transport gets two flat tyres. They are convinced the landlord carried out the murder, so when he pays them a visit they kill him. Unfortunately another of their party gets drowned…and they start to realise that perhaps one of them could be responsible.
The reasoning (such as it is) behind the crimes is faulty. Clearly these women don’t like each other very much and it’s hard to believe they’d have a phone call, never mind choose to spend four days together! The closing stages of the book felt rushed, and the ‘big reveal’ of Megan’s secret was rather deflated in impact as too many clues were dropped earlier for this not to have been guessed at.
Escapist fun, and thanks to NetGalley for giving me the chance to read and review this.
Things start badly when their luxurious lakeside retreat turns out to be a rundown cabin near a deserted camp where someone was murdered. Their closest neighbour is the gun-wielding tattooed guy who owns their cabin. Determined to make the best of things, they get drunk and settle down for the night.
What follows quickly launches into crazy territory. One of their party is found murdered. Their only way out is removed as their transport gets two flat tyres. They are convinced the landlord carried out the murder, so when he pays them a visit they kill him. Unfortunately another of their party gets drowned…and they start to realise that perhaps one of them could be responsible.
The reasoning (such as it is) behind the crimes is faulty. Clearly these women don’t like each other very much and it’s hard to believe they’d have a phone call, never mind choose to spend four days together! The closing stages of the book felt rushed, and the ‘big reveal’ of Megan’s secret was rather deflated in impact as too many clues were dropped earlier for this not to have been guessed at.
Escapist fun, and thanks to NetGalley for giving me the chance to read and review this.